A kangaroo that escaped from its owner on New Year’s Eve has been safely recovered, German media reported on July 9. The marsupial was found on Thursday, July 4, in Lüdersdorf, a municipality that is northwest of the city of Hamburg, according to RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND), a German media outlet. The kangaroo had escaped from...
Darryl Anderson was drunk behind the wheel of his Audi SUV, had his accelerator pressed to the floor and was barreling toward a car ahead of him when he snapped a photo of his speedometer. The picture showed a car in the foreground, a collision warning light on his dashboard and a speed of 141...
Rescue operations stretched into a second day at a major Kyiv children’s hospital struck by a Russian missile, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday, as officials raised the countrywide casualty toll to 42 dead and almost 200 injured in the previous day’s intense daytime barrage that smashed into multiple cities. Zelenskyy said on the social...
An illegal immigrant from Colombia, wanted in Spain for drug trafficking charges, has been arrested in Massachusetts, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The 25-year-old fugitive, who has not been named, was apprehended by Massachusetts State Police in the city of Revere on June 29 after authorities said he was driving an unregistered...
China and Belarus started joint military exercises on Monday, the Belarusian and Chinese defence ministries said, holding the drills just few miles (km) from the border of NATO-member Poland and kicking them off on the eve of the alliance’s summit. “Events taking place in the world are alarming, the situation is uneasy, therefore we are...
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday he would go to Washington after discussing a Chinese peace plan for Ukraine in Beijing. Hungary began its six-month EU presidency in July with a call to “Make Europe Great Again”, echoing former U.S. President Donald Trump, an Orban ally and sharp critic of the EU. Since...
Residents of Barcelona took out their frustrations against the increased mass tourism by visiting popular spots around the city this weekend and spraying people with water guns, demanding they go home. “Enough, let’s put limits on tourism,” was another rallying cry for the thousands of people – around 2,800, according to Catalan News – who...
German soccer star Toni Kroos said “uncontrolled” immigration has left his home country “unrecognizable.” The former Real Madrid star, who left Germany ten years ago, traveled back to his home country this summer to compete for Germany in theEuro 2024tournament, the Telegraph reported. In an interview given before what was his final professional match, Kroos...
Chinese President Xi Jinping called on world powers to help Russia and Ukraine resume direct dialogue during a meeting Monday with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, state broadcaster CCTV reported. Orbán made a surprise visit to China after similar trips last week to Russia and Ukraine to discuss prospects for a peaceful settlement of more...
Japan and the Philippines signed a key defense pact Monday allowing the deployment of Japanese forces for joint drills in the Southeast Asian nation that came under brutal Japanese occupation in World War II but is now building an alliance with Tokyo as both face an increasingly assertive China. The Reciprocal Access Agreement, which similarly...
