A devastating crash at an after-school center in the small town of Chatham claimed the lives of four young girls Monday afternoon, leaving a tight knit community reeling with grief. According to Illinois State Police, the tragedy unfolded around 3:20 p.m. at the YNOT Outdoors Summer and After School Camp, located at 301 Breckenridge Road. A vehicle, for reasons still under investigation, struck several people outside the building before barreling through its east wall, plowing through the interior and exiting through the opposite side. Authorities confirmed the victims were two 7 year old girls, an 8 year old girl, and…
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A historic and paralysing power outage struck vast regions of Spain and Portugal on Monday, plunging millions into darkness, halting transportation, severing phone services, and snarling traffic across the Iberian Peninsula. By early Tuesday morning, Spain’s power distributor Red Eléctrica reported that 99% of the country’s electrical capacity had been restored. In Portugal’s capital, Lisbon, the lights flickered back to life after a long, tense night. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro both praised the rapid efforts of workers and neighbouring countries that provided emergency electricity. Monday’s outage, described as “exceptional and extraordinary” by Eduardo…
A 27 year old university student was rescued twice from the slopes of Mount Fuji within a week, after returning to retrieve his lost mobile phone, Japanese authorities confirmed on Monday.
Ten men nicknamed the “grandpa robbers” are standing trial in Paris over the multimillion-euro robbery of American reality TV star Kim Kardashian during Paris Fashion Week in 2016. The suspects, aged between 35 and 78, appeared in court on Monday afternoon as the month-long trial began. Kardashian, 44, is expected to testify on May 13. In one of France’s biggest robberies targeting an individual in the past two decades, Kardashian was tied up and held hostage at gunpoint inside her luxury suite in the early hours of 3 October 2016. The attackers, disguised as police officers, fled with an estimated…
Tragedy struck Vancouver on Saturday night when a vehicle slammed into a crowd celebrating the Lapu Lapu Day festival, killing 11 people and injuring dozens more in one of the city’s darkest moments.
Tragedy struck near Clearwater Beach on Sunday night when a private recreational boat collided with a Clearwater Ferry, leaving at least one person dead and several others injured. The Police Department reported that the ferry, which was carrying 45 people, including two crew members, was struck by a smaller boat that fled the scene immediately after the crash. Authorities said six individuals were categorised as “trauma alerts,” indicating serious injuries. Two of the most critically hurt were airlifted by helicopter to local hospitals. The exact number of total injuries has not yet been released. Officials react to Clearwater incident According to…
Houthi-controlled media in Yemen reported Monday that U.S. airstrikes targeted a migrant detention centre in Saada, killing at least 35 people. The U.S. military has been carrying out near-daily airstrikes since March 15 under Operation Rough Rider, aimed at ending the threat the Iran-backed Houthis pose to vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. For more than a year, the Houthis have launched strikes against Israel and Western vessels, including U.S. warships, claiming solidarity with Palestinians since Hamas initiated war in Gaza with its unprecedented attack on Israel in October 2023. The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Sunday…
A British Airways flight traveling from Washington, D.C., to London diverted to Boston on Saturday evening after the crew reported a possible bird strike and smoke in the cabin, officials said. British Airways Flight 216, operated by a Boeing 777 aircraft, had departed Dulles International Airport shortly after 5:30 p.m. and was bound for Heathrow Airport. The plane landed safely at Boston Logan International Airport around 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). A spokesperson for British Airways said the flight was diverted “as a precaution following a suspected bird strike,” adding that engineers are inspecting…
Michael Alexander Gloss, identified as the son of a deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was killed in Eastern Ukraine in 2024,” NBC reported a CIA spokesperson as saying on Friday. 21-year-old Gloss was reportedly fighting in Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He died on 4 April 2024 in “Eastern Europe”, according to an obituary published by his family. His mother was Juliane Gallina, who was appointed the deputy director for digital innovation at the Central Intelligence Agency in February 2024. The story of how the son of a top-ranking US spy died fighting for Vladimir Putin’s…
Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana wrote in an emergency order.
