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BERLIN—German police are searching for a man who abandoned a bag of explosives at a Berlin train station and ran away after being stopped by federal officers, according to police. “We are investigating all possibilities,” a police spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday, adding that authorities had not yet been able to identify the suspect. Police […]
LA ALCUDIA, Spain—At least 95 people have been killed in the deadliest flooding to hit Spain for three decades after torrential rain battered the eastern region of Valencia, sweeping away bridges and buildings, local authorities said on Wednesday. Meteorologists said a year’s rain had fallen in eight hours in parts of Valencia on Tuesday, causing […]
MOSCOW—Russia said on Tuesday it had taken two eastern Ukrainian towns and open-source data indicated that Moscow’s forces were advancing at their fastest pace in at least a year. Russia said its forces had seized control of the town of Selydove, which had a population of 20,000 before the war and had been under sustained […]
A ten-story hotel building collapsed early on Tuesday in the coastal city of Villa Gesell in Argentina’s Buenos Aires Province, the local municipality said in a statement. Between seven and nine people, including workers from a construction site allegedly operating without municipal permits at the Dubrovnik hotel, were believed to be inside at the time, […]
McDonald’s posted a steeper-than-expected drop in quarterly global sales, hurt by muted demand across key markets, including Europe and the United States where it is expected to face more weakness as the burger giant reels from a deadly E. coli outbreak. Shares of the company were down 2.4 percent before the bell on Tuesday even […]
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos on Monday defended the newspaper’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate after a report that more than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions following the move. The decision blocked an endorsement of Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris, the National Public Radio report said, and many people in messages […]
NEW YORK—A new lawsuit accuses Subway of “grossly misleading” customers by advertising sandwiches that contain at least three times more meat than it delivers. According to a proposed class action filed on Monday in federal court in Brooklyn, Subway ads for its Steak & Cheese sandwich show layers of meat piled high, reaching about as […]
Boeing on Monday launched a stock offering that could raise up to $19 billion as the planemaker looks to strengthen its finances squeezed by an over month-long strike by its workers and preserve its investment-grade credit rating. The company is offering 90 million in common stock and $5 billion in mandatory convertible securities. Based on […]
WOLFSBURG, Germany—Volkswagen plans to shut at least three factories in Germany, lay off tens of thousands of staff and shrink its remaining plants in Europe’s biggest economy as it plots a deeper-than-expected overhaul, the carmaker’s works council head said. Europe’s biggest carmaker has been negotiating for weeks with unions over its plans to revamp its […]
Parts of two Ukrainian regions were without power after Russian air strikes damaged local infrastructure, energy officials said on Monday. National grid operator Ukrenergo said it was forced to implement emergency cuts in parts of the northeastern Sumy and central Poltava regions following overnight attacks by Russian forces. Kyiv’s air force claimed it had destroyed […]
JERUSALEM—One person was killed and dozens were injured on Sunday when a truck struck a bus stop at a major intersection near Tel Aviv in central Israel in what police said they suspected was a terrorist attack. Israeli police said about 40 people were injured to varying degrees, including some seriously, and were taken to […]
MEXICO CITY—At least 24 people died and five others were injured when a bus crashed on a highway in Mexico’s central state of Zacatecas on Saturday, local authorities said. The accident occurred in the early morning hours when the bus carrying the victims collided with the back of a tractor-trailer carrying corn. Zacatecas Governor David […]
MEXICO CITY—A shootout between two battling criminal groups in Mexico’s southern Pacific state of Guerrero on Thursday left 16 people dead, authorities said, as the country has been hit by a wave of recent violence. Around 5 a.m. on Thursday morning, warring cartels were facing off in the state’s rural, mountainous region, which has become […]
YENAGOA—At least three people died when a helicopter crashed in Nigeria on its way to an offshore oil production facility on Thursday, the state-owned oil firm NNPC said. The helicopter, operated by East Winds Aviation, lost contact while flying from Port Harcourt to the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Antan oil production facility, NNPC […]
LONDON—A rare typescript of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince,” containing extensive handwritten corrections by the French author and described by book dealers as “literary treasure,” will soon go on sale for $1.25 million. A candidate for the world’s most translated book outside of religious texts, the novella about a child who travels from planet […]
Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the Paris Masters, both he and tournament organizers said on Wednesday. Serbian Djokovic, 37, the reigning champion in Paris who has won a record 24 Grand Slam crowns and 40 Masters titles, did not reveal the reason for his withdrawal. “Unfortunately, I won’t be playing the Paris Masters this year,” […]
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris told a town hall in Pennsylvania on Wednesday her administration would be different from that of President Joe Biden’s, as Republican Donald Trump campaigned in Georgia, another battleground state. Harris’s attempt to distance herself from Biden comes as several polls show the president is a drag on her candidacy and […]
OXFORD, England—A series of boyhood doodles engraved on copper plates by English poet and painter William Blake around 250 years ago have been discovered by researchers using new technology capable of picking up the almost invisible etchings. Blake, who became one of the greatest poets in the English language, had worked as an apprentice to […]
MOSCOW—Russian forces are storming four towns in eastern Ukraine as Moscow’s forces push to gain control over the whole of the Donbas region, according to Russian bloggers. Russian forces are fighting with Ukrainian troops in the eastern Ukrainian towns of Selydove, Hirnyk, Kurakhove, and Toretsk, according to posts by bloggers on Tuesday. Yuri Podolyaka, a […]
MEXICO CITY—A shootout near the capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state killed 19 suspected gang members, while one local cartel leader was arrested, Mexico’s defense ministry said on Tuesday, as intra-cartel violence intensifies. The deadly altercation on Monday took place about 7 miles outside the Sinaloa capital of Culiacan, when a group of more than 30 […]
