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Part of major US highway collapses after fire in Philadelphia
Video from the scene shows a massive slab, covering an entire section of the northbound lanes, collapsed onto the surface roadway in northeast Philadelphia.
A large vehicle fire under an elevated section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia has caused a huge portion of the highway to collapse, closing it in both directions.
Video from the scene showed a massive slab covering an entire section of the northbound lanes collapsed onto the surface roadway in northeast Philadelphia. Officials said there were no immediate reports of injuries.
Captain Derek Bowmer of the Philadelphia Fire Department said emergency crews responding shortly before 6:30am (10:30 GMT) on Sunday to an accident report found heavy fire from a vehicle or vehicles.
Tunisian president says his country will not be ‘Europe’s border guard’
Kais Saied’s comments come as he prepares to meet EU leaders for talks on migration linked to IMF bailout package
The Tunisian president has said his country will not be Europe’s border guard, hours before a meeting on migration with the European Commission president and the Italian and Dutch prime ministers.
Ursula von der Leyen, Giorgia Meloni and Mark Rutte will offer financial assistance to Tunisia when they visit the country on Sunday, including a pledge to try to unblock an International Monetary Fund rescue package.
Italy’s foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, will fly to Washington next week to try to convince the IMF to release the first tranche of a $1.9bn (£1.5bn) bailout loan.
Is Vietnam backtracking on its environmental promises?
Vietnam's communist government has said it wants to achieve a net-zero economy by 2050. But it's also jailing those clamoring for quicker reforms.
The prosecution of five prominent Vietnamese environmentalists on tax charges many believe to be trumped-up has led to questions about just how committed the country's communist government is to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Rights groups have argued that the European Union and other international donors should pull back on a $15 billion (€14 billion) funding commitment to assist in Vietnam's green transition until Hanoi releases the jailed environmentalists and improves its woeful human rights record.
Hoang Thi Minh Hong, a former CEO of the environmental NGO Change, was detained by police along with her husband on May 31 after what appear to be spurious accusations of tax evasion.
French townspeople gather to honour those who intervened in Annecy knife attack
Hundreds of residents of the French town of Annecy gathered Sunday to honour the people who rushed to stop a man accused of stabbing six people, including four toddlers, at a playground last week.
Under the radiant sun, in the same park where the tragedy unfolded Thursday, people laid flowers, while on a nearby bench someone had written the names of the child victims inside a heart.
"It's a strong sign of unity and solidarity that we're all here together," said the city's mayor Francois Astorg.
"We are together. We will face this together," he added, while also paying tribute to those who responded to the attack "with courage and professionalism."
They include two municipal agents who tried to stop the attacker with a shovel, a young man renting out pedal boats and a maths teacher who both tried to step in, and a tourist who chased the attacker. A childminder also rushed in to rescue two wounded children.
Moscow's Fever DreamsThere Is Only One Possible Response to the Kakhovka Dam Breach
A DER SPIEGEL Editorial by Mathieu von Rohr
The breach of the Kakhovka Dam makes it clearer than ever: A rapid end to the war can only come through support for Ukraine's army.
Moscow’s spin doctors have long been yearning for an apocalyptic event of the kind that has now taken place with the breach of the Kakhovka Dam on Tuesday in Ukraine. The consequences of that event are symbolic of the only objective that Russia is still pursuing in this war: as much destruction as possible.
The reservoir contained 18 trillion liters of water, and when the dam broke, a catastrophic flood inundated parts of southern Ukraine, including the city of Kherson. Tens of thousands of people are now without drinking water. A number of desperate people were left to stand on their roofs and wait for rescuers who never came. Toxins are poisoning the environment and farming will be severely limited for the foreseeable future because the water used for irrigation came from the reservoir.
Diego Garcia: The tropical island ‘hell’ for dozens of stranded migrants
Dozens of migrants have been stranded for months on a tiny British territory in the Indian Ocean after being rescued from their struggling fishing boat.
They are desperate to leave for a safe place, describing conditions as hellish, but the unusual legal status of the island has left them feeling frightened and helpless.
Early one morning in October 2021, a fishing boat was spotted struggling near the island of Diego Garcia.
The vessel immediately attracted the attention of the island's authorities - the territory hosts a secretive UK-US military base, hundreds of miles away from any other population, and unauthorised visitors are forbidden.
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