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<p>JAMES ELLINGWORTH July 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM</p>

<p>1 / 3Britain F1 GP Auto RacingMcLaren driver Lando Norris of Britain, right, is congratulated by his teammate Oscar Piastri of Australia after winning the British Formula One Grand Prix race at the Silverstone racetrack in Silverstone, England, Sunday, July 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)</p>

<p>SILVERSTONE, England (AP) — Oscar Piastri aims to use the "frustration" he feels at the penalty which cost him victory at the British Grand Prix as motivation to win more races as he chases the Formula 1 title.</p>

<p>Piastri was reluctant to join in the celebrations for McLaren's fourth one-two finish of 2025 after a 10-second penalty imposed for sharp braking behind the safety car meant he finished behind teammate and title rival Lando Norris in Sunday's race. He leads Norris by eight points at the halfway point of the season.</p>

<p>McLaren rejected Piastri's request over the radio for the team to cancel out the effect of the penalty by asking the drivers to swap places. It would have put the Australian driver back into the lead and potentially deprived Norris of an emotional first home win.</p>

<p>"Lando didn't do anything wrong, so I don't think it would have been particularly fair to have swapped, but I thought I'd at least ask," Piastri said Sunday.</p>

<p>"It doesn't change much for the championship. I feel like I did a good job today. I did what I needed to. That's all I need, and I will use the frustration to make sure I win some more races later."</p>

<p>McLaren's dilemma</p>

<p>Piastri added that he "knew what the answer was going to be" before he messaged the team, but was searching for "a small glimmer of hope."</p>

<p>McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said the only way that Piastri would have stayed in front on Sunday would have been if the safety car came out and both McLarens stopped for fresh tires. In that event, Norris would have waited behind Piastri.</p>

<p>"Oscar is a very fast, very strong, very determined driver. He proved that," Stella added. "It didn't lead to a win, but I'm sure it will lead to many more wins."</p>

<p>It isn't the first time McLaren has had to deal with an awkward radio situation. Piastri's first career win at the Hungarian Grand Prix last year came when the team ordered a swap with Norris because of pit strategy. Norris only obeyed after a lengthy wait.</p>

<p>Inconsistent penalties</p>

<p>Once again, F1 is debating whether the rules are enforced consistently.</p>

<p>Piastri argued that slowing up the field before a restart is "well within the rules," a tactic he'd used earlier in the same race without incident. "I don't really get it," he said.</p>

<p>The stewards ruled that slowing from more than 135mph to 32mph was "erratic braking" and it forced Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who was second behind Piastri at the time, to take evasive action.</p>

<p>That left Red Bull team principal Christian Horner reviving his complaint that Mercedes' George Russell had deserved a penalty for slowing behind the safety car at the Canadian Grand Prix last month. On that occasion, Russell braked and Verstappen, who was second, briefly overtook as he was caught unawares.</p>

<p>Russell went on to win, with Verstappen finishing second. Red Bull's post-race protest interrupted Mercedes' victory celebrations and further strained the relationship between the teams.</p>

<p>"I wasn't surprised to see him get a penalty. That was what you would expect," Horner said of Piastri's penalty. "It was probably more surprising that George didn't get one in Montreal, to be honest with you."</p>

<p>Piastri, too, suggested punishing one incident but not the other seemed inconsistent.</p>

<p>"Going back to Canada, I think you had to evade more there than you did today," Piastri said. "So I'm a bit confused, to say the least."</p>

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<p>AP Auto Racing Writer Jenna Fryer contributed to this report.</p>

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<p>ANDREW WILKS and SUZAN FRASER July 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM</p>

<p>FILE - Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in a hotel at a ski resort of Kartalkaya, located in Bolu province, in northwest Turkey, Jan. 21, 2025. (Enes Ozkan/IHA via AP, File) ()</p>

<p>ISTANBUL (AP) — A total of 32 defendants went on trial on Monday over a deadly fire that tore through a popular ski resort hotel, killing 78 people and injuring 133 others.</p>

<p>The Jan. 21 fire hit the 12-story Grand Kartal Hotel at the Kartalkaya ski resort in the province of Bolu during the winter school break. Dozens of children taking family vacations were among the victims.</p>

<p>The tragedy, which saw guests and staff jump out of windows to escape smoke and flame-filled rooms or dangle sheets out of windows to lower themselves down, sent shockwaves across Turkey and sparked widespread calls for accountability over negligence and safety violations.</p>

<p>Thirteen of the defendants face potential jail terms of 1,998 years each on charges of killing or wounding with possible intent, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency, citing a 98-page indictment from the Bolu Public Prosecutor's Office. The 19 others are charged with negligently causing death or injury, for which they could be jailed for 22½ years.</p>

<p>With 210 plaintiffs and 32 defendants involved in the high-profile case, the trial is taking place at a sports center in Bolu that has been temporarily converted into a 700-seat courtroom to accommodate the proceedings, Anadolu reported.</p>

<p>On Monday, family members and friends of the victims staged a demonstration outside the sports center, holding up posters of their loved ones and demanding justice.</p>

<p>"This is not neglect, it is murder," the Anadolu Agency quoted Zeynep Kotan, the mother of 17-year-old Omur Kotan, who lost her life in the fire, as saying.</p>

<p>The fire started at 3.17 a.m. local time as a spark from an electric grill plate in the fourth-floor kitchen lit a nearby garbage bin before melting the hose of a liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, and igniting the gas.</p>

<p>Staff first noticed the flames at 3.24 a.m. and called the emergency services but within two minutes the blaze had "exceeded controllable limits," according to the indictment.</p>

<p>The blaze took hold of the wooden ceiling, accelerated by the flow of air from a door left open by escaping kitchen staff.</p>

<p>The indictment says that inadequate measures on the stairs and elevators and the lack of a smoke extraction system caused flammable and toxic fumes to swiftly spread to the upper floors, filling corridors with smoke.</p>

<p>The lack of emergency alarms, faulty fire detection and warning systems and insufficient staff fire training meant the hotel's 238 guests were not alerted to the blaze in time.</p>

<p>Escape routes through the stairways and emergency exits were not properly fitted and there was no sprinkler system, turning the hotel's stairwells and life shafts into "chimneys" for the smoke to quickly reach the upper floors.</p>

<p>The indictment adds that the absence of emergency lighting, fire escape signs and alternative exits stopped the safe evacuation of guests.</p>

<p>The 14-day trial will hear that legal responsibility lay with owner Halit Ergul and company board members, including his wife and daughters, and managers.</p>

<p>Also facing the higher punishment are Bolu's deputy mayor and deputy fire chief. Those facing the lesser charges consist of hotel staff, inspection officials and maintenance workers.</p>

<p>The hotel first opened in 1999 and has been operated by Ergul's company since 2007.</p>

<p>In a statement to prosecutors made within days of the fire, Ergul said the hotel was checked for fire safety every two years by government-authorized inspectors before receiving a tourism certificate, allowing it to operate. The most recent certificate was due to expire in March.</p>

<p>The hotel's last inspection by the Culture and Tourism Ministry was conducted five weeks before the fire, Ergul said.</p>

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Chantal triggers life-threatening flash floods as storm pushes inland in North Carolina and Virginia

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<p>CNN Meteorologists Taylor Ward, Briana Waxman, Mary GilbertJuly 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM</p>

<p>Tropical Storm Chantal impacts the Carolinas a few hours after landfall Sunday morning. - CIRA/RAMMB/NOAA</p>

<p>More than 5 million people were under flood alerts in North Carolina and Virginia with nearly 2 million under Flash Flood Warnings after Chantal made landfall early Sunday.</p>

<p>Now a Tropical Depression, Chantal was the first named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season to hit the United States, flooding properties and prompting rescue efforts.</p>

<p>The National Hurricane Center warned of flash flood concerns across parts of northern North Carolina late Sunday and Virginia into Monday. Life-threatening surf and rip currents are expected to continue at beaches from northeastern Florida to the mid-Atlantic states, the center said.</p>

<p>Widespread flash flooding was ongoing across much of North Carolina's Orange, Alamance and Chatham counties Sunday evening "as rainfall amounts of 4 to 7 inches have been observed in the area with localized amounts in excess of 8 inches," the National Weather Service said Sunday night.</p>

<p>"Numerous water rescues have occurred this evening and some homes flooded."</p>

<p>The Eno River, which runs through Orange and Durham counties in North Carolina, rose around 20 feet in about four hours Sunday evening, according to the National Weather Service.</p>

<p>Rick Herrera, a resident of Moore County in North Carolina, said floodwater smashed into his basement, breaking things and moving many things in his home. "It pushed the refrigerator in… I was trying to get my wife and my father in law out of the rushing water. We didn't want to get trapped or pinned by anything. It was a scary moment," he told CNN affiliate WRAL.</p>

<p>In Lee County, trees were seen uprooted and destroyed and some mobile homes were left destroyed by strong gusts of wind, according to video from WRAL.</p>

<p>Chantal came ashore around 4 a.m. ET Sunday near Litchfield by the Sea, South Carolina, according to the hurricane center, about 10 to 20 miles south of Myrtle Beach. The tropical storm was packing sustained winds between 50 and 60 mph at landfall, with stronger gusts.</p>

<p>Chantal is the third named storm of the Atlantic season — a mark usually hit around early August. It will continue to drench parts of the Southeast and create risky beach conditions through Monday.</p>

<p>The system deteriorated into a tropical depression late Sunday morning as it tracked deeper inland and farther north.</p>

<p>Despite Chantal's loss of tropical storm status, the system will still bring periods of heavy rain to the Carolinas and other parts of the mid-Atlantic. A level 2-of-4 risk of flooding rainfall was in place for portions of the Carolinas Sunday, according to the Weather Prediction Center. This rain will spread farther north early in the week.</p>

<p>Outside of the Southeast, most of the country had ideal conditions for July Fourth weekend, particularly in the Northeast and West, where calm, mostly clear skies were expected. The Southeast is likely to dry out by Tuesday.</p>

<p>Texas and the Upper Midwest could continue to see strong to severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and hail through the weekend. Torrential rainfall triggered deadly flooding in Texas early Friday morning as rivers rushed beyond their banks and flooded nearby campgrounds and homes.</p>

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<p>This photo gallery, curated by AP photo editors, features photos of the aftermath of flooding in central Texas.</p>

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<p>MALAK HARB and GABE LEVIN July 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM</p>

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<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Executions in Saudi Arabia surged last year to a record high, Amnesty International said Monday, as activists increasingly warn about the kingdom's use of the death penalty in nonviolent drug cases.</p>

<p>Saudi Arabia executed 345 people last year, the highest number ever recorded by Amnesty in over three decades of reporting. In the first six months of this year alone, 180 people have been put to death, the group said, signaling that record likely will again be broken.</p>

<p>This year, about two-thirds of those executed were convicted on non-lethal drug charges, the activist group Reprieve said separately. Amnesty also has raised similar concerns about executions in drug cases.</p>

<p>Saudi Arabia has not offered any comment on why it increasingly employs the death penalty in the kingdom. Saudi officials did not respond to detailed questions from The about the executions and why it is using the death penalty for nonviolent drug cases.</p>

<p>However, it conflicts with comments from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's day-to-day ruler, who in 2022 highlighted he limited its use to just homicide cases.</p>

<p>"Well about the death penalty, we got rid of all of it, except for one category, and this one is written in the Quran, and we cannot do anything about it, even if we wished to do something, because it is clear teaching in the Quran," the prince told The Atlantic.</p>

<p>Drug cases become a prime driver in Saudi executions</p>

<p>Saudi Arabia is one of several countries in the Middle East, including Iran, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates, that can levy the death penalty on drug-related charges. But the kingdom remains one of the world's top executioners behind only China and Iran — and its use of executions in drug cases appear to be fueling that.</p>

<p>Amnesty documented the cases of 25 foreign nationals who are currently on death row, or were recently executed, for drug-related offenses. In those cases, Amnesty said the inmates on death row were not familiar with the legal system nor their rights, and had limited to no legal representation. Foreign nationals faced additional challenges when trying to secure a fair trial, Amnesty said.</p>

<p>One such national, Egyptian Essam Ahmed, disappeared in 2021 while working on a fishing boat in Sinai. A month later, his family received word he had been detained in Saudi Arabia and sentenced to death for drug trafficking. Ahmed claims he was forced by the boat's owner to carry a package for him at gunpoint.</p>

<p>"We're living in terror, we're scared every morning," said a family member of Ahmed's, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity fearing his comments could impact the case. "Every morning until 9 a.m., we're afraid that they took one of them for execution without us knowing."</p>

<p>The family member added: "We don't have feelings. We're dead. Death would be easier. … They didn't even give me a chance to defend him and I don't know what to do."</p>

<p>Executions come amid 'Vision 2030' plan</p>

<p>Human rights groups for years have been critical of Saudi Arabia's human rights record. There also have been rapid societal changes in Saudi Arabia under King Salman and the crown prince. While pushing for women to drive, the kingdom has overseen the arrest of women's rights activists. While calling for foreign investment, Saudi Arabia also has imprisoned businessmen, royals and others in a crackdown on corruption that soon resembled a shakedown of the kingdom's most powerful people.</p>

<p>In 2021, as part of the crown prince's criminal justice overhaul, Saudi Arabia's Human Rights Commission announced a moratorium on drug-related executions. The moratorium, however, remained in place for just under three years, before it was scrapped without an explanation.</p>

<p>The executions also come as the kingdom continues to undertake bold reforms to diversify its economy as part of its "Vision 2030" initiative.</p>

<p>Jeed Basyouni, who directs Britain-based legal nonprofit Reprieve's Middle East and North Africa program, insisted Prince Mohammed could change Saudi Arabia's execution policy rapidly if he wanted.</p>

<p>"He could do mass pardons. He could insist on rewriting laws so that they are in line with international law," Basyouni said. "The billions spent on so-called reforms, designed to promote a more tolerant and inclusive kingdom under the crown prince's rule, mask an authoritarian state where daily executions for drug crimes are now the norm."</p>

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<p>MIGUEL OSES and JOSEPH WILSON July 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM</p>

<p>1 / 5Spain Running of the BullsRevelers run with bulls from Fuente Ymbro ranch during the first day of the running of the bulls at the San Fermín fiestas in Pamplona, Spain, Monday, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Miguel Oses)</p>

<p>PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Thousands of daredevils ran, skidded and tumbled out of the way of six charging bulls at the opening run of the San Fermín festival Monday.</p>

<p>It was the first of nine morning runs during the famous celebrations held in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona.</p>

<p>The bulls pounded along the twisting cobblestone streets after being led by six steers. Up to 4,000 runners take part in each bull run, which takes place over 846 meters (2,775 feet) and can last three to four minutes.</p>

<p>Most runners wear the traditional garb of white trousers and shirt with red sash and neckerchief. The expert Spanish runners try to sprint just in front of the bull's horns for a few death-defying seconds while egging the animal on with a rolled newspaper.</p>

<p>Thousands of spectators watch from balconies and wooden barricades along the course. Millions more follow the visceral spectacle on live television.</p>

<p>While gorings are not rare, many more people are bruised and injured in falls and pileups with each other. Medics rush in to treat the injured and take the seriously hurt to a hospital.</p>

<p>Unofficial records say at least 15 people have died in the bull runs over the past century. The deadliest day on record was July 13, 1980, when four runners were killed by two bulls. The last death was in 2009.</p>

<p>The rest of each day is for eating, drinking, dancing and cultural entertainment, including bull fights where the animals that run in the morning are slain in the bull ring by professional matadors each afternoon.</p>

<p>The festival was made internationally famous by Ernest Hemingway's classic 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises" about American bohemians wasting away in Europe.</p>

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<p>Wilson reported from Barcelona, Spain.</p>

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