A fire broke out at a factory owned by Hankook Tire, the country’s leading tire manufacturer, in Daejeon, South Korea, at around 22:10 local time yesterday. Ten workers and a firefighter were taken to the hospital due to smoke inhalation. Residents of the surrounding apartments were evacuated as a precaution. The massive fire, in which […]
Garbage collectors have joined the major strikes in France over pension reform plans, leaving the streets of Paris with thousands of tons of garbage. Several of the city’s most attractive avenues are covered with rubbish piles, even those just steps from monuments like the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. Additionally, Macron declined requests […]
After the train accident in Greece on March 1, in which 57 people, mostly students, lost their lives, a new protest was held in the capital, Athens, with the participation of about 20,000 people. The protesters held the government responsible for the accident, which was learned to have been caused by negligence, and demanded that […]
Drill Orion 23, which started on February 25 in France and was carried out with the involvement of NATO countries, has ended. While 7,000 soldiers from France, the United States, Italy, Spain, Belgium, and England joined in the drill, the final phase was held in Cahors, France. Although the army used blank bullets, sound bombs, […]
The food samples used in Japan to display restaurant menus attract great attention with their realistic appearance. With nearly 95 years of history in the country’s food culture, the samples are also appreciated by enthusiasts as souvenirs. Yukari Yamaya, who has been working in a food sample shop in the Kappabashi district of Tokyo’s historical […]
A chain traffic accident involving 42 vehicles occurred yesterday at 14:00 local time on a highway 25 km from the Hungarian capital Budapest. In the accident, 36 people were injured, 13 of them seriously. While 19 vehicles caught fire, many vehicles became unusable. The Hungarian National Directorate of Disaster Protection stated that many firefighters and […]
Cyclone Freddy struck Mozambique for the second time in two weeks. Reaching land in Quelimane in Zambezia province at around 22:00 local time, the cyclone caused one person to die. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has stated that the torrential rains caused by the tropical storm have raised the […]
The Dragon capsule of SpaceX, the space transportation company owned by US businessman Elon Musk, landed safely in the sea off Florida with the four astronauts sent to the International Space Station to conduct scientific studies within the framework of the Crew-5 mission. The crew that departed from Earth for the mission on October 6 […]
Israeli forces opened fire on a vehicle at a military checkpoint in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that Muhammad Dabeek, 18, Jihad Al-Shami, 24, and Uday al-Shami, 24, were killed in the attack. The ministry also announced that a Palestinian was also detained by Israeli […]
Protests continue against the pension reform in France, which aims to gradually increase the retirement age from 62 to 64. Unions called for “stopping life” across the country. Many professions including drivers, cleaners, refinery workers, railway workers and teachers supported the strike. As a result, schools were suspended and public transportation and refineries had been disrupted. […]