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An explosion in a residential building near the France border at 9:00 pm local time has left a couple and a teenager injured. Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident, which has raised safety concerns in the area.
A civilian aircraft crashed near Tomblaine, eastern France, on Sunday, resulting in the deaths of 11 people onboard, including skydivers on a training flight. Emergency services are on-site, with France’s Interior Minister, Laurent Nunez, travelling to oversee operations.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announced he will resign in the coming weeks, calling for early presidential and parliamentary elections. His decision follows a year and a half of protests demanding early elections, triggered by a tragic railway accident. Vučić did not specify a timeline for his resignation.
A haunting echo of a 40 year old double murder.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has accused Ukraine of being a neo-Nazi state – with President Volodymyr Zelensky and his government often targeted as sympathisers. A video by a German “whistleblower” now accuses the Ukrainian president of buying a former Nazi holiday home that belonged to Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. In this episode of Truth or Fake, Vedika Bahl explains how this claim has been fabricated.
New year, new face.France’s youngest-ever president naming the country’s youngest-ever prime minister. We willl ask why Emmanuel Macron chose to replace Elisabeth Borne with Gabriel Attal and chart the meteoric rise of a 34-year old Parisian who has already enjoyed stints as city councilor, party spokesperson, budget minister, government spokesperson and most recently education minister.
St Petersburg’s court service said it was pleased he had turned up fully clothed to the hearing.
Jozef Hanuska is accused of murdering 48-year-old Patricia and arranging her body in a sickening display in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Great British Bake-Off star Jurgen Krauss is understood to be one of the celebrities being lined up to spearhead a campaign to persuade more UK children to study the language.
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