Police had been monitoring the perpetrator of the attack on Berlin Pride for weeks via a camera at his home. According to Bild, his behavior was assessed as “unremarkable,” after which monitoring was scaled back for budgetary reasons.
The United States is pausing its attacks on Iran, and according to multiple reports, a severe shortage of certain types of ammunition is a factor. This is reported by BBC News and Reuters. President Donald Trump denies that there is a genuine shortage, but both within and outside his administration, the impression is growing that stocks of crucial interceptor missiles and precision-guided weapons are under strain.
A breakthrough has been made following a grim discovery on Texel.
Iran has once again publicly executed two men for their role in the anti-government protests that broke out in late December and early January. According to the judiciary-affiliated news agency Mizan, they were convicted of, among other things, “waging war against God” and seriously disrupting public order and security.
Man arrested with 44 bottles of exclusive wine from an evacuated building near Bordeaux.
In Lopburi, Thailand, a woman saw her savings disappear in a very unfortunate way. It wasn’t the work of thieves, but of hungry termites. Nanny Irin kept nearly 26,000 euros, or about one million baht, in a safe at home to keep her money secure, but later discovered that some of the banknotes had been eaten away.
Three women were attacked with knives on Monday in Paris near Porte de Clichy, in the northwest of the city. One of the victims is pregnant. None of the victims is in life-threatening condition.
Benjamin Netanyahu has once again lashed out at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whom he accuses of “fomenting hatred” by suggesting that he would have the Israeli prime minister arrested if he attends the UN summit in New York in September. According to Netanyahu, he's not afraid of the threat and will attend the United Nations General Assembly as planned.
The United States is dealing with a notable outbreak of the intestinal parasite Cyclospora this summer, and the source remains unknown for now. What began with infections in Michigan has since spread to 41 states, with thousands of confirmed cases and even more suspected cases, according to recent CDC figures.
The devastating wildfire in the French department of Gironde is far from under control and may continue to rage for weeks or even months. The warning came on Monday morning from Fire Lieutenant Colonel David Annotel via franceinfo. “It will take several more weeks, if not months, before we can definitively report that the fire has been extinguished,” he said.