In an interview with the American network Fox News, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the Strait of Hormuz will open “very soon.” If that does not happen, new, major U.S. attacks on Iran are imminent.
At least 17 people were killed and 44 injured in a large-scale Russian attack involving missiles and drones on Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, according to The Kyiv Independent. Fires have been reported in the capital and the Kyiv region.
The Belgian federal police are searching for two men who, on Friday in Samrée, a suburb of La Roche-en-Ardenne in Belgium, robbed a couple of tourists and then set their camper on fire. The owner suffered severe burns while trying to rescue his dogs from the vehicle.
On Monday, two teenagers were struck by lightning in the French Pyrenees during a mountain hike near Cauterets, in the Hautes-Pyrénées. A 14-year-old boy suffered cardiac arrest. He and a 21-year-old man were transported to the hospital in Tarbes by helicopter.
Ukraine is talking less and less about mere survival and more and more about winning. This shift in tone is linked to a war that is increasingly being decided by drones, robots, and rapid technological adaptation, which have partially eroded Russia’s advantages on the battlefield.
A 22-year-old man is in critical condition after falling from the Brabo Fountain on Antwerp’s Grote Markt during the night from Saturday to Sunday. Footage circulating online shows him losing his balance while climbing and plummeting from a height of about ten meters.
The European Commission wants a joint European response to the crisis in Ceuta, following the massive and chaotic influx of migrants into the Spanish enclave in North Africa.
Oekraïense droneaanvallen treffen steeds vaker magazijnen van Wildberries, de grootste Russische e-commercespeler, die ook vaak het “Russische Amazon”wordt genoemd. Sinds half juli zijn zo’n twintig locaties geraakt, waaronder 10 van de 26 grootste magazijnen, met branden, evacuaties en enorme voorraadverliezen tot gevolg.
Due to the extremely low water level in the Danube, Hungary was forced to almost entirely shut down its only nuclear power plant, Paks (which has four reactors and accounts for 40% of Hungary’s electricity production), during the night from Monday to Tuesday.
Een 14-jarige Belgische jongen uit Binche (Henegouwen) is maandagnamiddag verdronken in een steengroeve bij Watissart in het Franse Jeumont, vlak bij de grens tussen België en Frankrijk nabij Erquelinnes. Dat meldde de Franse regionale krant La Voix du Nord.