Three days after a bus driver ignored the red lights at a railroad crossing and caused a train accident in which he himself, a companion and two children died, a bus driver from the same transport company has driven through the red light at the same railroad crossing in Buggenhout, Belgium. Fortunately, this time without disastrous consequences.
The European Union is intensively preparing for a forest fire season that promises to be heavier and longer. A record 777 firefighters from 14 countries are being pre-deployed to high-risk areas in southern Europe. In addition, 22 fire-fighting aircraft and 5 helicopters from the EU reserve rescEU are on standby as additional support.
One of Britain's longest-running divorce cases has finally come to an end after more than two decades of legal battle. The case ended with a £6.6 million (about €7.6 million) settlement for a woman. Her husband, a lawyer, had concealed assets of 28 million pounds (about 32.3 million euros).
US President Donald Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "crazy" in a telephone conversation on Monday. News site Axios reports this based on three sources involved in the conversation.
Four years after the kidnapping plans of Dutch criminals from the international drug scene against former Belgian Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open Vld), the Belgian federal prosecutor's office wants to prosecute three Dutch men for the attempted hostage-taking. The Belgian prosecutor's office confirmed this on Monday, following new investigations.
There has been a breakthrough in the dire situation in which a speleologist found himself in a cave in northern Italy.
Charles de Batz de Castelmore, Count of Artagnan, or simply d'Artagnan is a French musketeer of mythical status. He died at age 62 during the siege of Maastricht in the Disaster Year of 1673, hit by a musket ball in his throat. He led the attack and was considered France's bravest and best musketeer; only the king was above him.
A new pill called "daraxonrasib" has nearly doubled the survival rate of patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer in a large clinical trial. Cancer specialists call this a breakthrough that could fundamentally change the treatment of one of the deadliest cancers.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accuses Russia of using abducted Ukrainian children as child soldiers in the war. In an interview with U.S. broadcaster CBS, he says there's evidence of minors being sent to the front line. The use of child soldiers is prohibited under international humanitarian law.
The Ebola outbreak in the Congo and Uganda is of great concern to the WHO. "We expect this to be a major outbreak," Dr. Dick Chamla of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in Trouw.