Armenia prepares to begin exports to Azerbaijan as bilateral trade expands
Armenia is preparing to export goods to Azerbaijan in the near future as the two countries move to expand bilateral trade, Prime Minister Nikol Pas...
One person has been killed and several others injured after a train collided with a vehicle and derailed in southern Denmark on Friday, police said.
According to the Southern Jutland police, the accident occurred when the train struck a vehicle at a road crossing, causing one of its carriages to tear off and overturn. Out of the 95 passengers on board, one person died while several were injured, with two flown to hospital by helicopter.
Images broadcast by Danish TV2 showed a carriage lying on its side next to the tracks. The state-owned rail operator DSB said it suspended all services between Kliplev and Tinglev, near Denmark’s border with Germany, as emergency teams worked at the site.
National rail system operator Banedanmark confirmed details of the collision on X, while authorities said investigations into the cause are under way.
Disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has increased the strategic importance of Bab al-Mandab, raising fears that instability in both waterways could trigger a wider global energy and trade crisis.
Flights at Catania airport in Sicily will remain suspended until early Friday as ash from Mount Etna continues to disrupt air travel, following hundreds of cancellations and diversions over the past week.
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz remains under its control, rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim of “total control” over the strategic waterway and insisting it will not reopen until Washington fulfils its commitments under an interim deal.
Iran and the United States remain at loggerheads over efforts to agree a permanent end to the war in the Gulf, according to a senior Iranian source who said there had been no progress in talks to revive the interim deal agreed in June and define a timeframe to implement it.
Russia has accused Ukraine of threatening global grain supplies after recent strikes on Black Sea agricultural infrastructure, while Moscow carried out a new overnight attack on Ukraine’s major Danube port of Izmail.
At least 437 civilians were killed and 2,610 injured in Ukraine in July, according to UN investigators, marking the highest monthly civilian casualty toll since March 2022.
Record rainfall in Japan killed eight people and stranded thousands of travellers at Tokyo's Narita Airport on Friday, as flooding disrupted transport and cut power to 20,000 homes.
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Hundreds of flights have been cancelled or rerouted at Catania Airport over the past week as ash from Mount Etna’s ongoing eruption continues to disrupt air travel in Sicily.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Ebola outbreak has spread to a sixth province. A man died of the virus in Bas-Uélé in the north, the African Union’s health agency said.
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