Things you should know today: 6/14/18

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Glass walls, not metal fencing, to surround Eiffel Tower

Francois Mori
Bernard Gaudillere, president of the SETE, Eiffel Tower Exploitation Society poses in front of a new security bulletproof glass barrier under construction around the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, Thursday, June 14, 2018. Paris authorities have started replacing the metal security fencing around the Eiffel Tower with a more visually appealing glass wall. The company operating the monument said see-through panels are being set up instead of the fences at the north and south of the famed monument that were installed for the Euro 2016 soccer event. Each panel is 3 meters high, over 6 centimeters thick and weighs 1.5 ton. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Instead of metal fencing surrounding the Eiffel Tower, authorities have installed glass walls to make the security belt more appealing. The see-through panels are being set up at the north and south ends of the site. The renovation is part of a 300 million euro ($350 million) project to modernize the 129-year old tower.

Prosecutor: Man makes deadly toxin for an attack in Germany

In this Tuesday June 12, 2018 photo, German police officers in protective gear leave an apartment building during an operation in Cologne, Germany. German police are searching the apartment of a 29-year-old Tunisian man who is accused of keeping toxic substances in his home. (David Young/dpa via AP)

German authorities have stopped a Tunisian man in the middle of a plot to use a deadly toxin ricin to poison and kill people in an Islamic extremist attack. The Tunisian man, named Sief Allah H., was taken into custody Tuesday and formally arrested Wednesday after police raided his apartment and discovered evidence of ricin made of castor bean seeds. “We don’t know how, or how widely, the ricin was to have been distributed,” said prosecutors’ spokesman Markus Schmitt.

Hungary sends smugglers to prison for 71 suffocation deaths

This June 12, 2018 photo released Wednesday, June 13, 2018 by French NGO “SOS Mediterranee” shows migrants on the Aquarius ship after being rescued in the Mediterranean Sea. Italy has defended its decision to refuse the Aquarius and its 600 passengers entry then Spain offered to take it in and the ship is currently on the dayslong voyage to Valencia. (Kenny Karpov/SOS Mediterranee via AP)

Four human traffickers were sentenced to 25 years in prison each after their involvement in the 2015 case in which 71 migrants suffocated to death in the back of a refrigerated truck found on a highway in Austria. The principal defendant, an Afghan man, and three Bulgarian accomplices, were found guilty of committing multiple crimes, including human smuggling and murder.

Today is national #FlagDay! The hashtag is trending on Twitter, because on June 14, 1777, Congress approved the Stars and Stripes design for the national flag.

Russia beat Saudi Arabia in the first game of the World Cup with a 5-0 victory. The win was the host country’s first World Cup win in 16 years.

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