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Blast reported at Augsburg train station Police are investigating the explosion of an unidentified object at a train station in southern Germany. Meanwhile, a malfunction at a German power station near Cologne is being probed as a deliberate act. Unidentified object explodes at Augsburg train station, injuring 2 An unidentified object exploded at a train station in the southern German city of Augsburg early Wednesday morning, with two people sustaining minor injuries due to a

Police lay 14 charges against man accused of violent Epsom attack The man accused of a violent attack that left three school kids injured and a dog dead has been charged with 14 charges by police. The 49-year-old man allegedly stole a Good Samaritan’s car before ploughing into five high school student cyclists and killing a woman’s dog during a frenzied series of attacks in Auckland’s Epsom that left five people injured, police say. The violent chain of events began about 7.0

Cases involving child sexual abuse material made using deepfakes, or manipulated digital representations, more than doubled in number in Japan in the first half of 2026, the National Police Agency has said. Police handled 123 such cases in the six months, exceeding both the 60 recorded a year earlier and the 114 logged in all of 2025, the agency said Monday. The surge highlights the rapid spread of generative artificial intelligence and its increasingly sophisticated image-ed

Unmanned operations and smart technologies are reshaping the modern battlefield. No longer mere reconnaissance platforms, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operate in deep coordination with the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force, Navy and Army. They connect the dots between spotting a target and hitting it, collecting and making sense of large volumes of sensor data to support joint operations across the services, turning intelligence into a battlefield edge.

It's a wild weather day, this is what you need to know Severe weather is battering parts of the North Island. Northland and Auckland are under a severe thunderstorm watch until 5pm, with MetService warning of large hail and possible tornados. Heavy rain is expected in Bay of Plenty and Gisborne until 11pm, with streams and rivers likely to rise rapidly. An apparent tornado hit the Manawatū town of Dudding Lake around midday, knocking over a caravan and injuring one. The weat

A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Wednesday called on compatriots in Taiwan to recognize the dangers and harmful nature of Japan's related actions, stand together to resolutely crush all separatist activities aimed at "Taiwan independence" and foreign interference, and safeguard the shared homeland of the Chinese nation. Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said at a regular press conference that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's rec

Nadra Mohamed Ahmed was seven months pregnant when she fled violence in her hometown of El-Fasher in Sudan. After a nearly 40 kilometres walk across unsafe roads with her two children, she found safe transportation to a shelter across the country. “By the time I arrived here, I had lost a lot of blood," said Ahmed from her tent at the overcrowded displacement camp in the town of Al-Dabbah, in northern Sudan. "I was admitted to the ICU where I spent a few days and had a blood

A bridge at a copper and cobalt mine in southeastern Congo collapsed due to overcrowding, killing at least 32 people, a regional government official said Sunday. The bridge at the Kalando mine in Mulondo in Lualaba province fell on Saturday, Roy Kaumba Mayonde, the province's interior minister, said during a press conference. “Despite the strict prohibition on accessing the site due to heavy rainfall and the risk of landslides, illegal diggers forced their way into the quarry

With just four percent of China's land area, the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), which includes Shanghai and its three neighboring provinces...