One person died and seven were injured Monday after a trolleybus veered off the road and crashed into a supermarket in Salzburg, Austria’s Red Cross said. “One person died despite attempts to resuscitate,” a Red Cross spokeswoman told AFP. The injured were taken to the hospital, two in serious condition, she added, as a large team of emergency responders…
Russia said Monday it had arrested a German woman found with a homemade bomb in her backpack in what it alleged was a Ukrainian-hatched plot to blow up a security services facility in the south. Russia has arrested dozens of people throughout the four-year war, mostly its own citizens, on allegations of working for Ukraine to carry out sabotage…
French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk are meeting on Monday in the north of Poland to strengthen defence cooperation in the face of Russian threats and weakening US commitment to Europe. The meeting is the first since the two countries signed a treaty of friendship and enhanced cooperation last May. “We have very similar views…
Tensions between the United States and Iran have intensified sharply, with US President Donald Trump threatening military action against Iran’s critical infrastructure if ongoing negotiations fail. Tensions between the United States and Iran have intensified sharply, with US President Donald Trump threatening military action against Iran’s critical infrastructure if ongoing negotiations fail. Trump announced that American representatives would travel…
An android has outpaced the entire field at a half-marathon in Beijing, finishing faster than the human world record. The robot, named Lightning and developed by Chinese smartphone maker, Honor, completed the 21-kilometre race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds on Sunday. As reported by CNN, that time is more than six minutes faster than the official human half-marathon…
Tensions have sharply escalated in the Middle East as Iran announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, accusing the United States of violating prior understandings amid an ongoing naval blockade. In a statement on Saturday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared that control of the strategic waterway had “returned to its previous state,” citing continued US restrictions…
