MADRID -- All 69 victims of last week's deadly high-speed train collision in Urda, central Spain, have been identified, while 29 injured people remain hospitalized, authorities said Monday.
Spain's Integrated Data Center confirmed that the provisional death toll remains at 69, including 54 Spanish nationals and 15 foreigners. The victims, all adults, included 40 men and 29 women. (Spain-Accident)
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KIEV -- Eighteen people were killed and 27 others reported missing in a Russian attack on the settlement of Komyshuvakha in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian authorities said Monday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X that 10 aerial bombs struck a school where people were receiving humanitarian aid. (Ukraine-Russia-Zaporizhzhia)
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LONDON -- International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez on Monday declined to confirm that mines had been cleared from the Strait of Hormuz, warning that passage remained unsafe.
Speaking at a Q&A session at IMO headquarters in London, Dominguez reiterated the organization's advice against transiting the strait amid conflicting Iranian and U.S. accounts of the mine threat. (IMO-Hormuz-Mine)
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RAMALLAH -- Dozens of Palestinian families returned to their homes in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Monday after the Israeli army announced the end of its 11-day military operation.
The families have returned to al-Jalda, Deir Bahha, Khallat al-Maghariba and other targeted neighborhoods, while reporting damage, according to Palestinian sources. (Palestine-Hebron-Residents) ■
