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Wednesday 14th October 2026. Italy wine theft. Greece US ambassador. Spain party. Argentina Brazil water. US diesel criticism. DRC rebels...
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Become a SEND7 supporter at send7.supercast.com World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 14th October 2026. Today: Italy wine theft. Greece US ambassador. Spain party. Argentina Brazil water. US diesel criticism. Rollercoaster accident. DRC Kabil rebels. Rwanda Formula One. India rivers protest. Palestine raids. Hong Kong Van Gogh. With Stephen Devincenzi Become a SEND7 supporter! Ad-free listeningBonus quiz episode every FridayDaily transcripts (written by us, not AI!)Vocabulary listsWednesday worksheetsAsk questions in Ask Me Anything episodes10% of our profit goes to Effective Altruism charities.You can be...
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Good morning, this is Send7 World News in 7 minutes. I'm Stephen Devin-Chenzey. Today is Wednesday the 14th of October 2026. Starting in Europe today. In Italy, thieves have stolen 30,000 bottles of fine wine worth around €5 million. Renzo Cottarella, CEO of the winemaker Marchese Antinori, said that
masked men broke into their storage facility in Cortona, in Tuscany. Seven people entered the winery and they stolen at least 50 pallets of wine that were ready to be shipped and they were the most important wine that we shipped all together once or two times a year when we shipped the wine to the importer. So this is the reason why there was so
much wine ready to be shipped and most of this wine was quite let's say expensive, quite rare in a certain sense. So Solaya and Tienel were them I mean among 12,000 bottles each. Then a little bit of Gaudal Pass, which is our iron wine from Bulgaria, and some of the wines that were there. They were professional because it was not easy. They did everything very quickly. They were very
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