Internet personality Andrew Tate, brother detained in Romania on British warrant
Bucharest: Internet personality Andrew Tate was arrested in Romania for 24 hours on a British warrant, with the Bucharest Court of Appeals scheduled to decide on whether to extradite him.
The arrest is related to allegations of sexual aggression dating back to 2012-15, which Tate and his brother Tristan "categorically" deny, according to his PR team. The warrant was issued by Westminster Magistrates Court.
"The Bucharest Court of Appeal is slated to make a pivotal decision today on whether to execute the mandate," stated Andrew Tate's PR representative.
In June, Andrew Tate, along with his brother and two Romanian women, was indicted in Romania for human trafficking, rape, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. They have consistently denied the charges. The case is currently with the Bucharest court's preliminary chamber, awaiting a decision on whether the trial can commence.
The court's decision on Friday will also determine whether to maintain the seizure of Tate's assets enforced by Romanian prosecutors at the beginning of 2023. The Tate brothers were initially held in police custody from late December 2022 until April, later placed under house arrest until August. Currently, they are under judicial control, allowing regular check-ins with the police while having the freedom to move around, except for leaving the country.
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake shakes Indonesia's Java Island, felt in Jakarta
Jakarta, Apr 27: A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook the southern part of Indonesia's main island of Java on Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or significant property damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck 102 kilometers (63 miles) south of Banjar city at a depth of 68.3 kilometers (42.4 miles). There was no tsunami warning.
High-rises in the capital Jakarta swayed for around a minute and two-story homes shook strongly in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung and in Jakarta's satellite cities of Depok, Tangerang, Bogor and Bekasi. The quake was also felt in other cities in West Java, Yogyakarta and East Java province, according to Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency.
The agency warned of possible aftershocks.
Earthquakes are frequent across the sprawling archipelago nation, but they are rarely felt in Jakarta.
Indonesia, a seismically active archipelago of 270 million people, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on major geological faults known as the Pacific “Ring of Fire.”
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake in 2022 killed at least 602 people in West Java's Cianjur city. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed more than 4,300 people.
In 2004, an extremely powerful Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia's Aceh province.
