The area’s MP said the industrial estate blaze ‘may involve chemicals’.

U.S. oil and gas companies on Friday raced to complete evacuations from offshore Gulf of Mexico platforms as Tropical Storm Ida advanced towards oilfields that provide 17% of the nation’s oil production. The storm early Friday was about 50 miles northwest of Grand Cayman Island moving north at 15 miles (24 km) and expected to intensify and become near a major hurricane when it hits the central U.S. Gulf Coast this weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?start#contents (NHC). Top Gulf of Mexico oil producer Royal Dutch Shell Plc was shutting production at four platforms and evacuating their workers, the company said late Thursday.

VIENNA (AP) — A Vienna court has convicted former Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of corruption for trying to change laws to favor a private hospital in exchange for donations to his political party. Austrian public broadcaster ORF reported Friday that the ex-leader of the far-right Freedom Party received a 15-month suspended prison sentence for accepting two bribes totaling 12,000 euros ($14,100). Strache, who served as vice chancellor from 2017 to 2019, had pleaded not guilty

Hyun-Jin Ryu didn’t make it out of the third inning on Thursday, and the Jays split the series with the White Sox.

Halo Collective Inc. (“Halo” or the “Company”) (NEO: HALO) (OTCQX: HCANF) (Germany: A9KN) today entered into definitive agreements to acquire Food Concepts LLC, the master tenant of an approximately 55,000 square foot indoor cannabis cultivation, processing, and wholesaling facility in Portland, Oregon operated under the Pistil Point name (the “FC Acquisiton”), and the related licenses issued by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (“OLCC”) and other operating assets owned by the entities doing

Alfaro, Rojas power the Marlins to 7-5 win