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Mkanuel Schwarz/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — Munich’s famous Oktoberfest event briefly closed on Wednesday following a bomb threat linked to a fire at a residence in the north of the city, police said. A 57-year-old German man who police said was behind the threat was found near the residence with a backpack containing an […]

Mkanuel Schwarz/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — Police in the southern German city of Munich said the famous Oktoberfest event would be closed until Wednesday afternoon, following a bomb threat linked to a deadly fire at a home in the north of the city. “Due to a bomb threat in connection with the explosion […]

Daniel Ceng/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake killed at least 69 people in the Philippines, officials said on Wednesday. The quake was recorded at 9:59 p.m. local  time on Tuesday with the centre at 19 km east-northeast of Bogo City, Philippines, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. After […]

Danylo Dubchak/Frontliner/Getty Images (LONDON) — NATO fighter jets were scrambled and air defense units put on alert in the early hours of Sunday in response to a major Russian drone and missile strike on Ukraine, the Polish Operational Command said in posts to X. “Due to the activity of the Russian Federation’s long-range aviation, which […]

Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. State Department said it was revoking the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who had traveled to New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly. “Earlier today, [Petro] stood on a NYC street and urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence,” the […]

Steffen Trumpf/dpa (Photo by Steffen Trumpf/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — Drone overflights again caused disruptions at Danish airports on Wednesday night, officials said, in the latest instance of unexplained drone sightings over sensitive facilities in the Scandinavian nation. Danish officials held a press conference on Thursday morning detailing the latest incidents, which prompted […]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised his “productive meeting” with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, after which Trump appeared to jettison his long-held skepticism of Kyiv’s battlefield ambitions. Shortly after the meeting, Trump wrote on social media, “After getting to […]

Sawayasu Tsuji/Getty Images (LONDON) — Typhoon Ragasa swept along the southern coast of China on Wednesday, bringing lashing rain, fierce winds and coastal flooding as it made its way toward landfall. The powerful storm was forecast to make landfall in the evening near Guangdong, China, where local officials called for about two million people to […]

Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Trump administration’s tariffs on Indian goods, initially 25% and then additional 25%, “due to India’s direct or indirect importation of Russian Federation oil,” is expected to make Indian basmati rice significantly more expensive for American consumers. Basmati is an aromatic rice variety grown mostly in the Punjab […]

Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (LONDON) — At least 41 drones were shot down while heading toward Moscow from Monday evening through to Tuesday morning, according to city Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, amid what Russian Defense Ministry data suggested was a major Ukrainian drone barrage. Sobyanin said the first Ukrainian drones were downed at […]