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, there is a threat of new, major U.S. attacks on Iran.
At least 17 people were killed and 44 injured during 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. The shift in tone is linked to a war that is increasingly being decided by drones, robots, and rapid technological adaptation, which have partially eroded Russian 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.
Ukrainian drone attacks are increasingly targeting warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest e-commerce player, which is often referred to as the “Russian Amazon.” Since mid-July, about twenty locations have been hit, including 10 of the 26 largest warehouses, resulting in fires, evacuations, and massive inventory losses.
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.
A 14-year-old Belgian boy from Binche (Hainaut) drowned on Monday afternoon in a quarry near Watissart in Jeumont, France, close to the border between Belgium and France near Erquelinnes. This was reported by the French regional newspaper La Voix du Nord.