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Police and firefighters were out in large numbers along Munich’s Lerchenauer Strasse arterial road on Wednesday morning, but there is currently no danger to the public in the city known for Oktoberfest, according to a police spokesperson. The road has been widely cordoned off due to the major police
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A severe rainstorm killed at least nine people in Ukraine’s Odesa, emergency services said early on Wednesday. “In seven hours, Odesa received almost a two-month norm of rainfall. No storm sewer system can withstand such a load,” the mayor of Odesa Gennadiy Trukhanov said on Telegram. “Currently, nine people
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Security forces fired teargas to disperse hundreds of young protesters in Madagascar’s capital who took to the streets again on Tuesday despite the president’s decision to partly yield to their demands by dissolving the government. Andry Rajoelina went on state television late on Monday and said he wanted
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German police arrested on Tuesday a Syrian man suspected of committing crimes against humanity, including killing and torturing, as a militia leader in 2011 in Aleppo, prosecutors said. The Syrian national, identified only as Anwar S. in line with German privacy laws, is suspected of being head of the “shabiha
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US airlines warned on Monday that a partial federal government shutdown could strain American aviation and slow flights, as air traffic controllers and security officers would be forced to work without pay and other functions would be halted. Airline trade group Airlines for America, which represents United Airlines, Delta Air
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The return of widespread sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program “must not be the end of diplomacy” with the country, the EU’s top diplomat said on Sunday. While the bloc will follow the UN in reimposing sanctions, “a sustainable solution to the Iranian nuclear issue can only be achieved
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At least four people were killed and eight injured when a gunman in a pickup truck smashed through the doors of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel in Michigan during a Sunday service attended by hundreds, opened fire and set the building ablaze. Police shot and killed
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Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are heading to the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday in a late effort to avoid a government shutdown, but both sides have shown hardly any willingness to budge from their entrenched positions. If government funding legislation is not passed
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Iran has recalled its ambassadors to Germany, France and the United Kingdom on Saturday for consultation over the dispute mechanism to reinstate UN sanctions, the country’s Mehr state news agency reported. The move comes after a Russian and Chinese push on Friday to delay the revival of the international
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Former UK prime minister Tony Blair could take a leading role in a transitional authority for Gaza under US-led peace plans, various British media reported on Friday. It follows Blair’s involvement in discussions with the administration of US President Donald Trump and others over the post-war transitional body for
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The UN Security Council on Friday rejected another last-ditch effort to delay the reimposition of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program a day before the deadline and after Western countries claimed that weeks of meetings failed to result in a “concrete” agreement. The resolution put forth by Russia and
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Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70 percent between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists. Bacteria that are difficult to treat due to the so-called NDM gene primarily drove the increase, CDC researchers wrote in an article published
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Another tropical storm barreled across Philippine islands Friday, causing at least four deaths and new evacuations of tens of thousands of people from landslide- and flood-prone villages long battered by typhoons. Bualoi, which has weakened since making landfall overnight, was the latest of back-to-back storms from the Pacific to threaten
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will address a major gathering next week of senior US military officers who will travel from around the globe to attend, President Donald Trump said Thursday. Trump confirmed to reporters in the Oval Office that the highly unusual meeting would take place, saying: “I love it.
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Hundreds of thousands of people in southern China were clearing up Thursday after powerful Typhoon Ragasa crashed through Guangdong Province, ripping down trees, destroying fences and blasting signs off buildings. Ragasa churned into Guangdong, home to tens of millions of people, with winds up to 145 kilometers per hour, on
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North Korea is believed to possess up to two tonnes of highly enriched uranium, South Korea’s unification minister said Thursday. The North has long been known to hold a “significant” amount of highly enriched uranium, the key material used to produce nuclear warheads, according to South Korea’s defense