MANILA -- Five people were killed and over 20 others injured after a bus hit several vehicles in Bataan province, northwest of the capital Manila, police said Thursday.
Police said the crash occurred at around 7 p.m. local time Wednesday along a highway in Dinalupihan town. The bus was traveling from San Fernando City in Pampanga province to Olongapo City. (Philippines-Road Accident)
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KIEV -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday discussed defense support for Ukraine in a phone conversation.
Zelensky informed Scholz of the current situation on the frontline and the priority needs of the Ukrainian military, the presidential press service reported. (Ukraine-Germany-Defense cooperation)
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GAZA -- A UN training center in Gaza's major southern city of Khan Younis was attacked and set on fire on Wednesday, killing at least nine people, a UN official said.
Two tank rounds hit the building that shelters 800 people, killing at least nine people and wounding 75 others, Thomas White, director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Gaza, wrote in a post on social media platform X. (Israel-Gaza-Conflict)
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BRUSSELS -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Wednesday kicked off "Exercise Steadfast Defender 2024," its largest military drills in decades.
"The dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States and following a series of operations will commence her transit across the Atlantic," NATO said, adding, "His Majesty's Canadian Ship Charlottetown would depart Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for Europe later this month." (NATO-Military drill) ■
