Headlines- Two high-speed trains collided near Toledo in central Spain, resulting in at least 64 fatalities.
- The Middle East is "capable of addressing our problems" without US intervention, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Russian Prime Minister Putin.
- The spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition claims in a post on X that air defenses had intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile that the Houthis had launched in the direction of Taif.
- Flavio Bolsonaro, former Brazilian presidential candidate, fled to the United States after his passports were revoked due to his refusal to comply with a Supreme Court order to turn them in as part of a money laundering investigation.
- The US State Department would grant Flávio Bolsonaro and his family visas and allow them to enter the country.
- Since the outbreak was discovered in mid-May, 10,060 Ebola cases and 4,887 deaths have been reported by the Democratic Republic of the Congo's health authorities..
- Over the dismissal of Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, from the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office, a federal judge in New York ruled against President Donald Trump and the Justice Department on Monday.
Author: crimeandmoreworld - News Desk
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