1) Kenyan police investigate four suspected killings on Del Monte pineapple farm

Bodies of men missing for several days were retrieved from (მოძიება/ამოღება) a river on
Christmas Day. This month the Guardian revealed that human rights groups were investigating
another death at the farm after a man’s body was found in its dam (კაშხალი) in November.

Friends and relatives of the four men found dead on 24 and 25 December urged (მოუწოდა) the
government to intervene(ჩარევა) to explain how they ended up in the river.

On Wednesday, Del Monte said it was “cooperating with Kenyan authorities as they continue to
investigate the circumstances surrounding the four bodies retrieved from the Thika River last week.
The postmortems are still underway. (მიმდინარეობს). Our security footage(კადრები) from
when the men attempted to steal pineapple shows no foul(უხეში) play on Del Monte’s part and
instead shows them running away towards the river, after dropping bags of stolen pineapple, as they
tried to run away from security guards.

Another relative, Peter Kamanzi, claimed that at least one of the victims had injuries that may have
contributed to his death. “It’s quite visible that this boy was seriously beaten up”

rampant -ყოვლისმომცველი

tackle-დაძლევა

2) The Eiffel Tower closed as a staff strike on the 100th anniversary of the creator’s death
The Eiffel Tower was closed to the public on Wednesday after staff went on strike on the
100th anniversary of the death of its creator, Gustave Eiffel.
Disappointed tourists who had booked tickets to access the 134-year-old monument were
told it was shut and they would be contacted by email.
The Eiffel Tower, one of the world’s most visited attractions, drew nearly 7 million visitors a
year – three-quarters of them foreign tourists – before the Covid pandemic. After enforced
closures and travel restrictions were lifted the number rose to 5.9 million visitors in 2022.
Gustave Eiffel was 91 when he died on 27 December 1923. A visionary
entrepreneur(მეწარმე) and brilliant structural engineer, he had just finished building an
iron and steel skeleton for the Statue of Liberty in New York with Eugène Viollet-le-Duc of
Notre Dame Cathedral spire fame when approached to create a symbol of French industrial
savoir-faire for the 1889 Universal Exhibition.
The 10,100-tonne iron tower he came up with was only ever intended to be a temporary
structure to be pulled down and scrapped(გაუქმება) in 1909. Some, including the writers
Guy de Maupassant and Alexandre Dumas the younger, could not wait to see it go,
describing it as “useless and monstrous” and an affront to “French taste” even before the
foundations had been laid.
City officials decided to spare what became known as the Dame de Fer (Iron Lady) after
realising the tower, then the tallest building in the world, could be used as a radiotelegraph
and weather station. It has since become the French capital’s most famous landmark, rising
312 metres (1,023ft) above the city.
The top floor of the tower is due to close next month for an annual renovation lasting
several weeks