Germany: 2 dead, several injured in Mannheim car ramming
Police said a suspect was arrested after a car drove into a crowd in the city center. The driver was a 40-year-old German, according to the state's interior minister.
At least two people were killed and several injured on Monday as a car drove into a pedestrian zone in the western city of Mannheim, authorities said.
Police said a suspect was in custody, adding that it was unclear if others had been involved.
Several cities across Germany were holding parades on Monday to mark the carnival season. Mannheim's main parade took place on Sunday.
Thailand condemned for ‘shameful’ mass deportation of Uyghur refugees to China
Amid claims that deportees may face torture, family of one man say he was forcibly repatriated and will never see his children again
Mon 3 Mar 2025 13.45 GMT
The family of one of dozens of Uyghurs feared to have been forcibly deported from Thailand to China have condemned the decision as “shameful”. The deportations came despite a UN statement saying those being sent to China faced a “real risk of torture” on their return.
Thailand ignored protests by the UN refugee agency, EU and US in deporting 40 Uyghurs who had been detained in the country for a decade, claiming they had returned voluntarily “to their normal lives” with their families.
Japan deploys nearly 1,700 firefighters to tackle wildfire
Nearly 1,700 firefighters are battling Japan's biggest wildfire in three decades, officials said Monday, as some 4,600 residents remain under an evacuation advisory.
One person died last week in the blaze in the northern prefecture of Iwate, which follows record low rainfall in the area and last year's hottest summer on record across Japan.
The fire near the city of Ofunato has burned through some 2,100 hectares since Thursday, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Monday.
Why some in the Global South are not mourning the demise of USAID
The aid industry has always propped up imperial domination. Its implosion may be an opportunity to shape a new order.
United States President Donald Trump’s blitzkrieg campaign against the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has demolished the organisation described as the “world’s largest donor” and left aid workers scrambling to salvage the international development aid and humanitarian response system. Many have lamented the grave consequences of the US president’s unprecedented decision as well as moves by other countries, such as the United Kingdom, to cut aid.
In a LinkedIn post commenting on the situation, Luca Crudeli, who said he has been “immersed in development since 2003”, spoke of “the sense that the moral center of our work is quietly slipping away” and “the uneasy realization that development’s humanistic soul might be lost in a shuffle of contracts and strategic scorecards”.
Trump's commitment to peace in Ukraine is sincere, Starmer tells Parliament
Summary
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells Parliament that Donald Trump's commitment to peace in Ukraine is sincere - watch live at the top of the page
The US is vital to securing peace and Britain will play a leading role in achieving it, he adds
It comes after the PM announced a four-point plan to work with Ukraine to end the war and defend the country from Russia
Starmer's statement to MPs came after talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, European leaders and the US president
Zelensky's trip to the UK over the weekend came after a heated exchange with Trump and JD Vance in the Oval Office on Friday
Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron has suggested a partial one-month truce in Ukraine - our correspondent James Landale examines the idea here
USAID reinstates contracts for Georgia company that helps feed malnourished kids after Elon Musk responds to CNN reporting
The CEO of a plant in Georgia that makes a special peanut butter paste for severely malnourished children around the world told CNN Sunday that his company’s contracts with the US Agency for International Development that had been abruptly canceled last week were all reinstated late Sunday night.
Mark Moore, the founder MANA Nutrition, shared screenshots of the rescinded contract termination notifications with CNN.
“Thrilled,” he said in response to the news.
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