Bongani Bingwa checks in with UK Correspondent Adam Gilchrist for a look at global developments making headlines. First,mounting tension in Northern Europe as Russia rapidly builds up military forces near Finland’s border, raising NATO alarm just a year after Finland’s accession; in France, famed actor Gérard Depardieu is convicted of sexual assault, receiving an 18-month suspended sentence in a case seen as pivotal for the country’s #MeToo movement; and in Turkey, scientists solve the ancient mystery of the “Gate to Hell” at Hierapolis, revealing that lethal carbon dioxide emissions not supernatural forces were behind the ritual animal deaths, shedding light on a place once feared as divine and now understood as a natural wonder.

 

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