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An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 struck Japan in the Kumamoto Prefecture area on the southern island of Kyushu on Tuesday, July 28. As the Japanese media company NHK notes, the strength of the shocks reached the maximum level on the Japanese seismic intensity scale. The authors add that the last time an earthquake of such intensity was recorded was in 2024 on the Noto Peninsula.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, six climbers died while ascending Mount Elbrus. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the region reported on Sunday, July 26, that two groups were sent to the summit: one made up of seven foreigners and the other of two Russians. The regional EMERCOM cites the Telegram channel "Elbrus 07," which reported the deaths of five citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the first group and one person in the second.

A European low-cost carrier Ryanair plane made an emergency landing in Greece after one of its windows was damaged, Bloomberg reports. According to the airline, the window “shifted during flight.”
One of the passengers was almost pulled into the shattered window due to cabin depressurization, Bloomberg reports, citing media outlets it does not name. A passenger who was on the flight, eyewitness Christina, told Radio Thessaloniki that “the head and shoulders of one of the passengers were sticking out of the window,” but fortunately he had not unfastened his seat belt, and other nearby passengers helped pull him back into the cabin. One passenger, described as a tourist from Serbia, was hospitalized with friction burns, but otherwise his condition is assessed as good, AFP reports, citing government officials.

Two severe earthquakes—in the northern and central parts of the country—occurred in Venezuela in the second half of the day on Wednesday, June 24. Venezuela’s Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the collapse of residential buildings and other structures in Caracas.
Acting President of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez announced the introduction of a state of emergency in the country. According to her, as of now, 164 deaths have been reported, and more than 970 people have suffered various injuries.

Three days after the devastating double earthquake in Venezuela, it is known that 1,430 people have died; at least 68,900 are listed as missing. This was reported on Saturday, June 27, by the Associated Press agency citing the country’s government. Experts say the first 48–72 hours are crucial for rescuing survivors, although this timeframe may be extended if they have access to food and water.

In the chemical park of Dormagen (North Rhine-Westphalia) on Saturday, June 20, around 1:45 AM, a leak of a solution containing phosgene occurred, resulting in several employees suffering injuries.
How this incident happened is still unclear. An official spokesperson from Chempark reported that the installed security systems reacted immediately. "The criminal police have launched an investigation, and the police are also on site," he stated in a comment to EXPRESS.de.

Hungary’s Prime Minister, Péter Magyar, announced that the operation of the country’s only nuclear power plant, Paks, will be halted due to a record drop in the water level of the Danube for the first time in 44 years. He said this on the night of Sunday, August 2, on the social media platform X.
As Reuters reports, the Paks nuclear power plant provides nearly half of Hungary’s electricity generation and uses water from the Danube to cool the plant’s reactors. Amid a possible energy crisis, the country’s authorities urged residents and businesses to reduce electricity consumption.

In the municipality of Drammen in southern Norway, 50 kilometers west of Oslo, on Saturday, July 18, the fight against a major fire continues. The media calls it the largest in the country since World War II. The fire, which broke out the previous day, has already destroyed more than 100 residential houses in the village of Krokstadlevå and spread to the nearby forest, according to media company NRK.

The White House is tracking an outbreak of cyclosporiasis caused by contaminated food products and promised to provide the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with the necessary resources, the White House press secretary, Caroline Levitt, said on Thursday.
At a press briefing, Levitt told journalists that the federal government is working to establish the original source of the outbreak.

В знаменитом центральном районе Лондона Ковент-Гарден на улице Энделл-Стрит днем в среду, 5 августа, резаные ранения получили четверо мужчин 34, 39, 42 и 52 лет. 47-летняя женщина задержана по подозрению в нападении и владении опасным оружием, передает телеканал Sky News со ссылкой на лондонскую полицию.
На месте преступления были найдены ножницы, сообщили правоохранители. По их предварительным данным, задержанная имеет ментальные проблемы.
Четверо раненых получили первую медицинскую помощь на месте, после чего были доставлены в травматологический центр. Позднее полиция сообщила, что двух пострадавших отпустили из медучреждения, а травмы остальных не оцениваются как угрожающие жизни.
Ножевые атаки в Великобритании
Это не первое подобное нападение в Соединенном Королевстве за последние годы. Так, в ночь на 2 ноября 2025 года десять человек были доставлены в больницу после ножевой атаки в поезде, следовавшем из Донкастера в Лондон. По подозрению в нападении были задержаны двое граждан Соединенного Королевства 32 и 35 лет. Полиция не нашла в этом преступлении признаков теракта.
А 29 июля 2024 года 17-летний молодой человек с ножом напал на студию детских танцев в Саутпорте. В результате трое детей погибли, еще 10 человек попали в больницу. После этого в Лондоне и Саутпорте прошли акции протеста, перешедшие в беспорядки.
Позднее новую волну протестов всколыхнули ножевые нападения в Саутгемптоне и Белфасте. В первом случае 23-летний Викрам Дигва несколько раз ударил ножом 18-летнего Генри Новака, а прибывшие на место полицейские приняли преступника за пострадавшего на почве расизма и задержали жертву. В Северной Ирландии, в свою очередь, иммигрант из Судана напал с ножом на 44-летнего Стивена Олигви.
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In the night of Wednesday, August 5, at the Leipzig/Halle airport, next to a Ukrainian cargo airplane An-124, a suspicious item was discovered. X-ray examination showed that it was a drone equipped with explosives with a detonator, reports the dpa agency. It was defused using a remotely controlled robot.

General Aleksandr Chaiko
As a result of an explosion that went off on August 1 at the Balzi Rossi restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square in Moscow, Daniil Peredriy was killed. He was the son-in-law of the commander-in-chief of Russia’s Aerospace Forces, Aleksandr Chaiko. Information about this appeared in the Unified Register of Individual Entrepreneurs of the Russian Federation, the outlet "Agentstvo" noted on Wednesday, August 5. In the extract from the register he received, it is stated that the legal entity of Peredriy ceased operations "in connection with the death of this individual" four days earlier.

An explosion occurred at an Italian restaurant in a high-rise building on Kudrinskaya Square in central Moscow. This was reported on Saturday, August 1, by the Interfax agency, citing law enforcement authorities.
"As a result of the explosion, there are fatalities, the exact number of which is being уточняется, as well as about 20 injured," the source told the agency.

The number of laboratory-confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since the outbreak began in May has reached 3,532 cases, AFP reported on Saturday, August 1.
New incidence figures exceeded those recorded during the previous, most severe Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which took place from 2018 to 2020, AFP notes. At the time, 3,500 cases of infection were recorded, and the number of deaths was nearly 2,300 people.

In the yard of an apartment building on Semena Paliya Street in Odesa, an automobile exploded on Tuesday morning, July 28. The 49-year-old driver of the vehicle was injured, the National Police of Ukraine reported. “Preliminarily, it has been established that as soon as the driver started the SUV and began to move, the car exploded,” the statement added. Police said that all circumstances of the incident are currently being investigated.

In Seattle, as a result of a shooting opened by unknown assailants at the annual city festival The Bite of Seattle at around 18:00 on Sunday, July 26, three people died. At least five more were injured, including a two-year-old boy.
According to the city mayor, Katy Wilson, one person was detained in connection with the tragedy. The city hall initially reported the detention of two people, but later corrected this information without further explanation.

A large-scale power outage occurred in Georgia on the night of Friday, July 24. According to a statement by the Georgian Electric System, cited in Russian by the TASS news agency, on July 24 at approximately 00:10 local time, "the supply of electricity was abruptly cut off on a nationwide scale."

The number of laboratory-confirmed deaths from Ebola hemorrhagic fever in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has risen to nearly 1,000. This was reported on Wednesday, July 22, by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Institute of Public Health of the DRC.
A total of 999 deaths have been recorded; the diagnosis has been confirmed in 2,473 people. In all, 737 patients are receiving treatment in isolation conditions.