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Over 10,000 passengers hit by delays following sabotage on Spain's AVE line
MADRID — More than 10,000 passengers in Spain experienced severe disruption on Sunday after cable lines were stolen at several points within the province of Toledo and a train suffered a technical fault.Travelers relying on more than 30 trains between Madrid and Seville were affected. Many were returning from trips over the bank holiday weekend.Minister of Transport Óscar Puente described the incident as "a serious act of sabotage" and called for the public to help identify those responsible.The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, claimed that Spain was suffering a "daily calamity", appearing to link the travel delays to last week's historic power outage.The disruption has lasted for several hours, with Renfe's customer service team...
May 05, 2025

Over 10,000 passengers hit by delays following sabotage on Spain's AVE line

Alcatraz prison island
Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the former prison on an island off the coast of California.In a message on his Truth Social site on Sunday, President Trump said that "for too long America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat criminal offenders".The reopening of Alcatraz would serve as a "symbol of law, order, and justice," he said.The prison was closed in 1963, and Alcatraz Island is currently operating as a tourist site. It lies near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge."Today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ," Trump wrote.The prison would "house...
May 05, 2025

Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison

Portugal Election Incumbent Prime Minister and leader of the Social Democratic Party Luis Montenegro, waits for the start of an election TV debate with opposition leader
Portugal to expel some 18,000 illegal migrants ahead of snap national election
LISBON — Portugal’s caretaker government announced plans on Saturday to expel about 18,000 foreigners living in the country without legal permits or authorization.António Leitão Amaro, Minister of the Presidency, said the center-right government will issue approximately 18,000 notifications to illegal migrants asking them to leave.According to Amaro, officials will begin next week by asking some 4,500 undocumented migrants to leave voluntarily within 20 days.The announcement comes in the build-up to the country's early general election, scheduled to be held on 18 May.Last week, Amaro was quoted in the local press as saying that “Portugal needs to review its deportation system, which doesn’t work.""It is important to realize that Portugal is one of the three...
May 05, 2025

Portugal to expel some 18,000 illegal migrants ahead of snap national election

Municipal workers clean up near burnt cars and a crater made by a drone in the residential area following Russia's air raid in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 4, 2025
Russia launches over 160 drones on Ukraine in overnight attack injuring at least 11 people
KYIV — Russia launched a large-scale drone assault on Ukraine overnight from Saturday into Sunday, deploying 165 unmanned aerial vehicles, according to Ukraine’s armed forces.In the capital Kyiv, the attacks triggered fires that left eleven people injured, including two children, according to the State Emergency Services (SES).The SES reported that the attack affected three districts of the capital: Obolonskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, and Shevchenkivskyi.In Obolonskyi, a blaze damaged a 12-story residential building."When it hit, we didn’t know what to do. I was with my son, and I said to him: ‘Come on, let’s go!’ I grabbed him like this, in my pajamas, and ran over here. We saw a neighbor come out and start running away," Nadiya, one of its residents, said.“We saw people...
May 05, 2025

Russia launches over 160 drones on Ukraine in overnight attack injuring at least 11 people

The police did not disclose details of the plot, citing operational reasons.
Several Iranian men arrested in UK over alleged attack plot
LONDON — British counterterrorism officers have taken several Iranian men into custody over a suspected plan to launch an attack at an unnamed site in London, the Metropolitan Police confirmed on Sunday.The arrests were made on Saturday across different parts of England, with five men between the ages of 29 and 46 held on suspicion of preparing "a terrorist act".Four of those detained are Iranian nationals, while efforts to confirm the identity and nationality of the fifth individual are still ongoing.All five are currently being interviewed at police stations and have not been formally charged. Investigators are also carrying out searches at addresses in London, Manchester, and Swindon.Authorities said the suspected plot focused on a specific location, the details of which are...
May 05, 2025

Several Iranian men arrested in UK over alleged attack plot

The AfD won a record number of seats in federal elections in February
AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence
BERLIN — Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been designated as right-wing extremist by the country's federal office for the protection of the constitution."The ethnicity- and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party is incompatible with the free democratic order," the domestic intelligence agency said in a statement.The AfD came second in federal elections in February, winning a record 152 seats in the 630-seat parliament with 20.8% of the vote.The parliament, or Bundestag, will hold a vote next week to confirm conservative leader Friedrich Merz as chancellor, heading a coalition with the center-left Social Democrats.AfD joint leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla said the decision was "clearly politically...
May 02, 2025

AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence

Staff from United Nations agencies protest against the drastic budget cuts and staff reductions in Geneva, 1 May, 2025
Almost 500 staff protest against UN budget cuts as US scales back humanitarian funds
GENEVA — Nearly 500 United Nations staff got together at a Labour Day rally in Geneva to protest against sweeping budget cuts prompted by President Donald Trump's decision to pull the US back from its position as the world’s largest aid donor."Reducing the number of UN staff means reducing the means of survival for the fight against famine, for education and for displaced families," said Ian Richards, the president of the UN Geneva staff union.The Geneva rally, held on the Place des Nations in front of the UN building, comes two days after several UN aid agencies announced they would have to slash jobs due to funding cuts, primarily from the US, warning that the reductions will severely impact aid programmes worldwide.Other bodies like the UN children's agency UNICEF,...
May 02, 2025

Almost 500 staff protest against UN budget cuts as US scales back humanitarian funds

The flags of Croatia and EU fly over the Ban Jelacic square in Zagreb. (File)
Croatia's new 'graveyard law' stirs Serb minority's sentiments
ZAGREB — Croatia's war of independence ended almost 30 years ago. However, the EU and NATO member's lawmakers felt some matters stemming from the conflict had not been fully laid to rest.On Wednesday, MPs overwhelmingly voted in favor of a new piece of legislation called the Graveyard Law, replacing the two-decades-old policy with a fresh set of rules which now demand the removal of graveyard inscriptions and plaques erected during the 1991-1995 conflict "not in line with the constitutional order".The new law, as explained in a statement released by the Ministry of Physical Planning, Construction and State Assets, outlaws inscriptions made during the "occupation and peaceful reintegration" and contains "symbols that might offend the morals and feelings of...
May 02, 2025

Croatia's new 'graveyard law' stirs Serb minority's sentiments

Protesters march during the May Day demonstration, Thursday, May 1, 2025 in Paris
Tens of thousands of people took part in May Day rallies across Europe
PARIS — Rallies and demonstrations were organized across multiple major European cities on Thursday to commemorate Labor Day, calling for higher pay, greater equality and the protection of workers' rights.International Labour Day, also referred to as May Day or International Workers’ Day, is an annual celebration that marks the struggles and achievements of workers and the labor movement around the world. It’s observed around the globe on 1 May, and is a public holiday in most countries.The holiday has its foundations in North America. In May 1886, a violent crackdown on protesters in Chicago — known as the Haymarket Affair — saw numerous deaths and injuries after a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour workday.This led to the Second International in...
May 02, 2025

Tens of thousands of people took part in May Day rallies across Europe

Crew members fly a French Navy Atlantique-2 submarine hunter naval airplane during a NATO military exercise in Romania, 9 April, 2025
Sixteen EU countries to trigger clause increasing defense spending
BRUSSELS — More than half of all EU countries intend to make use of an exemption allowing them to go over budgetary limits in order to boost military spending, the European Council has said.The European Commission proposed earlier this year that members could use an emergency clause to spend up to 1.5% of their GDP on defense investments over the next four years without breaching rules on public deficits and debt.The move came after the Trump administration suggested that Europe should pay more to defend itself and amid security concerns over Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.Germany and Poland are leading the group of countries that have indicated they want to do so, the EU said in a statement on Wednesday.Hungary and Slovakia, whose governments are considered to be Moscow-friendly,...
May 02, 2025

Sixteen EU countries to trigger clause increasing defense spending

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