News in brief
A 23-year-old man was killed on Thursday night in Givors, south of Lyon, after being struck by a motorcycle while riding his electric scooter, according to local authorities. The accident occurred shortly after 10 p.m. on Rue Jacques Duclos, in......
Two women were found dead on the rocky coast of the Greek island of Chios, after a makeshift boat carrying 29 migrants ran aground on Friday, according to the Greek coast guard. “During a rescue operation following the grounding of a migrant boat, two women were found......
The Venezuelan government has reinforced its military presence in border states with Colombia, launching maneuvers involving 17,000 soldiers, in response to the deployment of US warships in the Caribbean, AFP journalists reported on Thursday. Washington has positioned seven warships in the Caribbean......
Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, renowned both in Japan and abroad for offering official apologies for Japan’s actions during World War II, passed away on Friday at the age of 101, political officials announced. Murayama, who served as Prime Minister from 1994 to 1996, issued......
The Peruvian government announced on Thursday its intention to declare a state of emergency in Lima following a surge in organized crime violence that has triggered massive demonstrations, leaving one person dead and over a hundred injured. “We will soon announce the decision to declare a state......
A bomb exploded overnight from Thursday to Friday, destroying the car of renowned Italian journalist Sigfrido Ranucci without causing any casualties, the television program Report, which he directs on Italy’s public broadcaster RAI, announced on X. The explosion occurred about twenty kilometers......
The French national railway company SNCF has officially won the contract for the operation of five regional TER lines around Marseille and the Hautes-Alpes, following a vote by the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Regional Councilthis Friday. The company was competing......
The military commander of Yemen’s Houthi rebels, General Mohammed al-Ghamari, has been killed in an Israeli airstrike, the Iran-backed group announced on Thursday, October 16, without providing further details. In a statement released by the movement, the Houthis described......
Swedish prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant on Thursday, October 16, for a young Syrian suspected of killing Salwan Momika, an Iraqi Christian who had repeatedly burned copies of the Quran in 2023, sparking outrage across the Muslim world. The suspect remains at large, according to authorities. Salwan......
Faced with aging equipment and frequent breakdowns limiting access to the Lyon metro, Sytral plans to replace nearly two-thirds of elevators and escalators over the next ten years. The €49 million plan, to be voted on November 27, includes the replacement of 75 elevators and 76 escalators across......
After two days of heated debates, the Greek Parliament approved a bill allowing workdays of up to 13 hours. Trade unions and left-wing parties denounce the measure as retrograde and dangerous for workers’ rights. The bill, passed by a parliamentary majority on Thursday, permits employees to work......
The trial of a 28-year-old Afghan, who stabbed a group of children in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, killing a child and an adult, opened on Thursday, eight months after the attack. During six days of hearings running until October 30, debates will focus on the mental state of Enamullah O., whose psychiatric......
The prosecution on Thursday demanded the death penalty for former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 78, who is being tried in absentia by a court in Dhaka. She is accused of ordering the repression of riots that led to her ousting in 2024. “We demand the maximum penalty. For a single murder,......
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