A fast-moving wildfire near Marseille, France’s second-largest city, has injured at least 110 people and forced hundreds to leave their homes. According to the BBC, the fire began on Tuesday near Pennes-Mirabeau, north of the city, and quickly grew due to strong winds, dry vegetation, and steep hillsides. France’s Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said the…
Representative image (Picture credit: IANS) RAIPUR: At a time when all of Bastar is on high alert following the loot of 5,000kg explosives by Maoists in neighbouring Odisha, three villagers were grievously injured in an IED blast in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bijapur district Friday morning. This is the first attack on civilians since the encounter killing…
Counterterrorism police in Britain are investigating an attack on Saturday that “seriously injured” two women in the northern English city of Leeds. The police said that they had recovered a crossbow and a firearm. The police arrested a 38-year-old man, who was taken to the hospital with what they called a “self-inflicted injury.” They said…
A massive explosion at a port in southern Iran on Saturday killed at least five people and injured more than 700, according to state media. The exact cause of the blast at the Shahid Rajaee port in the city of Bandar Abbas was not immediately clear, but the Iranian authorities did not suggest it was…
After an intensive search, the police in Germany detained a suspect in a Friday stabbing attack at Berlin’s iconic Holocaust memorial that left one person seriously injured. The attack, two days before a pivotal national election, occurred in the labyrinth of concrete stelae that make up the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, located…
A teenager died and several other people were injured in Villach, Austria, on Saturday after a man attacked them with a knife, officials said. A suspect has been detained in connection with the attack; it is not clear whether he knew the victims. The attack happened around 4 p.m. local time, killing a 14-year-old and…
Pope Francis suffered a minor injury to his right forearm after a fall at his residence on Thursday, the Vatican confirmed. This marks the second fall in a month for the 88-year-old pontiff. In an official statement, the Vatican spokesperson reported, “This morning, due to a fall at the Santa Marta house, Pope Francis suffered…
A gunman shot and wounded two children at a California elementary school on Wednesday before shooting himself dead, the local sheriff’s department said. The shooting occurred at Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists in Oroville, California, located about 55 miles (89 km) north of Sacramento, the Butte County Sheriff’s office said by telephone. Megan McMann,…