A 19th-century shipwreck is filled with Champagne bottles and Sweden won’t allow anyone a sip

A 19th-century shipwreck is filled with Champagne bottles and Sweden won’t allow anyone a sip

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — No one will be allowed to fish out any of the nearly 100 bottles of 19th-century Champagne and mineral water nestled in a shipwreck off southern Sweden without proper authorization, officials said Wednesday. Though the wreck’s location has been known since 2016 and is registered in Sweden’s National Antiquities Office’s cultural

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Fugitive ex-Catalan leader plans return to Spain despite threat of arrest over failed secession bid

Fugitive ex-Catalan leader plans return to Spain despite threat of arrest over failed secession bid

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Carles Puigdemont , the former leader of Catalonia who fled Spain after organizing an illegal independence referendum in the wealthy Spanish region nearly seven years ago, announced that he plans to return home on Thursday despite the likelihood he will be arrested. Puigdemont, 61, who fled to Belgium after the breakaway

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