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This is the harrowing moment a passenger train smashes into a lorry carrying thousands of pieces of fruit. CCTV footage shows a lorry driving past the level crossing, then reversing after a car approaches from the opposite direction. It is then hit by the train. The collision occurred in the Dutch village of Meteren, around 43 miles southeast of Amsterdam, …

More than 300 piles of human remains have been discovered in a desert just an hour outside of Las Vegas. The shocking discovery was made by a local man near the rural town of Searchlight on July 28. However, investigators have likely been left with an unsolvable mystery as to who the remains belong to, as each pile no longer …

He has been clearing the field of potential rivals in the event of a presidential election, Ukrainian lawmakers have alleged Opponents of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky have accused his administration of using court cases as a tool to sideline political opposition, Politico wrote on Friday, citing lawmakers and anti-graft activists. The outlet cited last week’s indictment of the former chairman …

Tanzania’s main opposition said hundreds had been killed in three days of election protests, with the country still under an internet blackout on Friday and the government denying any use of “excessive force”. A security source and diplomat in Dar es Salaam both said that deaths were “in the hundreds” as protests continued on Friday. President Samia Suluhu Hassan had …

An Afghan man who killed two people, including a toddler, during a knife attack on a nursery group in a park has been ordered into psychiatric care by a German judge. A 2-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man, who attempted to protect the children, both died in the harrowing attack in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg, western Germany, in January …

Trust the unsinkable politician fond of rebranding bombings as democracy to fix Britain’s energy woes Tony Blair is back to explain how Britain should rescue itself, bringing along a new report from his Tony Blair Institute for Global Change that rebrands the country’s energy ambitions yet again. Once upon a recent time, the dream was called ‘Clean Power 2030’. Now it …

And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. – John Steinbeck, East of Eden Evil people don’t have songs. How is it, then, that the Russians have songs? – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols OPINION — The war that Russian …

OPINION — Last week’s Fourth Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party witnessed a purge of China’s senior military leaders, culminating in over two years of the removal of senior military officials once loyal to President Xi Jinping. The last two defense ministers – Wei Feng he and Li Shangfu – were removed in October 2023 and June 2024. And now, …

One of Vladimir Putin’s top propagandists has said Ukrainians should flee Kyiv as he urged Russia to strike a dam in the capital. Kremlin loyalist and TV host Vladimir Solovyov said Moscow’s forces should carry out the action in response to Ukrainian strikes on a dam inside Russian territory. The Ukrainian military earlier this week claimed the attack on the …

“Targeting fast boat operators will not stop major drug trafficking kingpins from sending multi-ton quantities of drugs to our country and around the world,” Michael Chavarria, a former DEA supervisor who spent 26 years investigating drug cartels in Mexico, the Caribbean and the Southwest border, told The Cipher Brief. “The drug trade is the most profitable business in the world, …