Germany: a car mows down pedestrians in Leipzig, killing two. Two people were killed and around 20 others injured after a car drove into a crowd in the city center of Leipzig, eastern Germany, authorities said. Police said the suspect was a 33-year-old German man who was apprehended inside the vehicle after it stopped and taken into custody. “The police didn’t know the accident […] was intentional or not. But it comes against a backdrop of great tension in Germany, after a series of car-ramming attacks in recent years… putting the country “on alert†, comment on it German wave.
War in Ukraine: kyiv and Moscow announce truces on different dates. The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, proposed to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, a ceasefire starting on Wednesday, which The Guardian described as “potentially unlimitedâ€. The Russian Defense Ministry, for its part, demanded that hostilities cease on Friday and Saturday so that Russia could commemorate the Soviet Victory against Nazi Germany in World War II, eighty-one years ago, while threatening to launch a “massive missile strike†on kyiv if Ukraine violated this truce.
United States: Federal agents shoot a gunman near the White House. The White House was briefly locked down Monday afternoon after a US Secret Service agent exchanged gunfire with an armed individual nearby, reports The Washington Post. The suspect, whose identity is unknown, was shot dead around 3:30 p.m. (9:30 p.m. Paris time) near the Washington Monument, shortly after the passage of the convoy of the American vice-president, J. D. Vance, according to the Secret Service. Washington police said they were investigating the scene of the shooting and that roads in the area would be closed for several hours.
