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According to an official, a train crash in India that killed 275 people was caused by a signaling system error.

BALASORE, India—According to authorities, the catastrophe in eastern India that left 275 people dead and hundreds injured was brought on by a mistake in the electronic signaling system that caused a train to switch tracks incorrectly and collide with a freight train.Read More

Sister of North Korean Leader Promises Second Attempt to Launch Spy Satellite, Criticizes UN Meeting

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un blasted a U.N. resolution and pledged once more to push for a second attempt to launch a spy satellite on Sunday. Meeting of the Security Council on the North's first, unsuccessful launch.Read More

Malaysian authorities apprehend a Chinese barge on suspicion of looting WWII British warship wrecks.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—Malaysia's maritime agency said it discovered a World War II cannon shell aboard a Chinese-registered vessel and was looking into whether the barge carrier was involved in the plundering of two British naval wrecks in the South China Sea.Read More

Near Collision, as China ship maneuvered in Taiwan strait, blocking the US warship.

The Chinese Communist Party's most recent aggressiveness, this time directed against a U.S. ship, was "unsafe," according to the U.S. military, which made the statement during a Saturday possibly deadly encounter in international waters in the Taiwan Strait.Read More

Saudi Arabia will reduce oil production by 1 million barrels per day in order to raise prices.

In their meeting on June 4, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies, known as OPEC+, demonstrated their commitment to higher oil prices, with Saudi Arabia proposing more output cuts and several other members extending their voluntary cutbacks until the end of 2024.Read More

Head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad Rocket-Launching Unit Killed in Israeli Airstrike

According to reports, another Palestinian Islamic Jihad military leader was killed in an early morning Israeli attack on an apartment complex in Gaza on May 11.Read More

Volkswagen Defends China Record at Meeting with Flying Cake, Shouted Slogans, and Shareholder Questions

A cake flies through the air at a German conference venue.Read More

In Ukraine, a journalist with the AFP news agency was killed.

PARIS—The Ukraine video coordinator of the French international news agency Agence France-Presse was killed Tuesday in a rocket strike in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.Read More

Pakistan deploys troops to quell unrest following the arrest of former Prime Minister Khan on new charges.

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan's government called in the military Wednesday in areas rife with deadly violence in the aftermath of the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was dragged from a courtroom and ordered held for another eight days on new corruption charges, infuriating his supporters and deepening the country's political turmoil.Read More

The first babies born in the United Kingdom to '3 Parents'

For the first time in the United Kingdom, babies were born using DNA from three parents, according to the country's reproductive authority.Read More


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