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At least one person was killed in the incident in eastern England on Friday evening A rush-hour rail horror unfolded near Bedford on Friday evening when two East Midlands Railway passenger trains crashed into each other, killing one person and injuring dozens more.According to the operator, the trains were the 4:40pm service from Corby and the 3:50pm service from Nottingham, both heading toward London St Pancras. They collided in the Bedford area at around 5:15pm local time.British Transport Police confirmed that one person had died in the incident, while emergency services said 89 people were injured, including 11 who suffered…

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the decline of European NATO as a warfighting organisation has mirrored the continent’s crisis of faith in itself and the open borders era, telling a meeting of alliance leaders they now need to step up if they want America to keep contributing. A meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) member state defence ministers in Brussels, Belgium was addressed by U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Thursday morning as a session opener, where he delivered a blunt assessment of the alliance’s failure to be war-ready, and warned it had six months to turn itself…

An estimated four million alleged refugees are now living in Germany, including millions that have remained in the country for decades, Berlin’s official statistician has revealed. Data released by Destatis ahead of World Refugee Day on June 20 shows that a record 4 million people are living in Germany after immigrating as refugees since the Second World War. The statistician found that 3.3 million people immigrated to Germany since 1950 as refugees, while around 713,000 foreign survivors of World War II remain alive and within the country. According to the data, 832,000 of the 3.3 million post-1950 refugees are Ukrainian nationals,…

Advocacy groups have urged Congress to investigate claims that the tech giant benefited from fraudulent campaigns aimed at seniors Several US retirement advocacy groups have urged Congress to investigate Meta, accusing the tech giant of allowing fraudulent ads targeting seniors to proliferate while profiting from the campaigns, Politico reported on Thursday, citing a letter sent to leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee.Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, has faced mounting scrutiny in recent years over issues ranging from misinformation and online fraud to data privacy, antitrust concerns, and the impact of its platforms on young…

Up to 200 Labour MPs are reportedly prepared to back Andy Burnham as the next British prime minister British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing mounting pressure from Labour MPs, party heavyweights and even cabinet ministers to step down as early as this weekend, the Guardian has reported, citing lawmakers and government sources.Calls for Starmer’s resignation have grown since Labour lost nearly 1,500 seats in local elections in May. The pressure reportedly intensified after former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham won Thursday’s Makerfield by-election, a result seen by many in the party as a rallying point.According to the Guardian, up to…

So the German Supreme Court has ruled on my case. Their ruling is that they will not rule on my case. They sent my attorney a letter to that effect. It literally says: The constitutional complaint will not be accepted for a ruling. No explanation is provided. This ruling is incontestable.” So I am now officially a “hate criminal” in Germany. I was already pretty much a “hate criminal” in Germany, but now it’s official. This is Germany’s supreme court. There is no higher court to appeal to. OK, sure, there’s the European Court of Human Rights, the international court…

Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed on Tuesday that unknown knife-wielding attackers abducted two people, a woman and her six-year-old child, from an Ebola treatment center. Both victims are believed to have tested positive for the disease. The incident occurred in North Kivu, eastern DRC, one of three provinces experiencing the highest number of Ebola cases during the current outbreak. Neighboring Ituri province is believed to have been the origin of the first case of Ebola since the outbreak began this year. Authorities are unsure when the outbreak began; the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) declared a…

Large crowds in Seoul accusing the leftist-run government of South Korea of election fraud marked two weeks on Thursday of protests in front of an Olympic sports complex used to tally ballots in the June 3 election. The ruling Democratic Party, led by leftist President Lee Jae-myung, won 12 of the 16 local elections that day, a decisive victory compared to the four wins by the opposition conservative People Power Party (PPP). The conservatives notably kept the mayorship of Seoul in the hands of current Mayor Oh Se-hoon, however, thwarting a full Democratic sweep. Complicating matters, and prompting protests, was…

Berlin may be forced to introduce “mandatory measures” to fill the ranks of a 5,000-strong armored brigade in Lithuania The German military may be forced to order soldiers to serve near Russia’s borders after struggling to find enough volunteers, despite a major promotional campaign touting financial benefits, according to local media reports.Berlin has been building up the 45th Armored Brigade in Lithuania as a flagship project of its militarization drive, which Moscow has repeatedly criticized as blatant revanchism and nostalgia for Germany’s Nazi past.The unit is expected to reach full operational readiness by the end of 2027 and eventually include…

Despite being suspended from the San Antonio Police Department for allegedly serving a homeless man a sandwich containing dog feces, former officer Matthew Luckhurst has been named police chief of Benavides, Texas. City officials praised his “exemplary” recent record and said a thorough background check justified the controversial hire. The City of Benavides website lists Matthew Luckhurst as its chief of police. The city recently appointed Luckhurst to the position about a year and a half after he was hired as an officer, News4SA reported. Luckhurst’s work in Benavides followed his 2016 separation from the San Antonio Police Department. News4SA…