Two people died and at least another twenty were injured, two of them seriously, in a multiple hit-and-run this Monday in the German city of Leipzig, in the east of the country, according to police. Around 4:45 p.m., a gray Volkswagen SUV sped into a central pedestrian area around Augustusplatz and drove 500 meters running over people. The driver was arrested at the scene.
Uncertainty has settled in the Strait of Hormuz after a series of bombings by Iran against ships flying the flags of the United States, the UAE, and South Korea, as well as against an oil complex in the United Arab Emirates throughout Monday, casting doubt on Donald Trump’s initiative to “guide” the ships trapped in the maritime route. The ceasefire between Washington and Tehran is faltering as peace negotiations, mediated by Pakistan, continue to yield no results two months after the start of the war.
The authorities of Fujairah, in the United Arab Emirates, have reported a fire in the Fujairah Oil Industrial Zone following what they described as a drone attack from Iran. According to the Fujairah press office, civil defense teams were immediately deployed to contain the fire.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has recorded the worst approval rating of his two terms, according to a survey by The Washington Post, ABC News, and the Ipsos center published this Sunday. Fifteen months after returning to the White House, and just six months before the midterm legislative elections, 62% of the American population disapproves of his management.
The military operation that U.S. President Donald Trump announced for this Monday as a “humanitarian gesture” meant to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz encountered its first obstacle: the Iranian navy fired two missiles at a U.S. frigate that was about to enter the waterway through which 20% of the world’s oil passes.
South Korea said it was verifying intelligence information that a ship flying the South Korean flag had been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz, Yonhap News reported on Monday. A spokesperson for the South Korean shipping company HMM told Reuters that a fire had occurred in the engine room of one of its bulk carriers in the Strait of Hormuz, and added that the cause of the fire was still under investigation. They assured that there were no reports of casualties or injuries.
The seppuku of the Japanese samurais (a painful cut in the abdomen with a dagger, dressed in white ritual clothes and writing a farewell poem) was not just any way to take one’s life, but an honorable death to avoid being captured, pay for failure, demonstrate loyalty, bravery, and self-control. It was banned at the end of the 19th century but even if it were not, and despite its romanticism, there is nothing further from the will of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer than to commit harakiri.
President Donald Trump has a problem with poor popularity both inside and outside the United States. The war he launched alongside Israel against Iran on February 28 is causing an increase in the price of oil and other products, which affects the economy of the citizens and that never gives good publicity.
In a situation of tug of war and with the ceasefire in limbo, a spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Sunday that they had received, through Pakistan, a response from the United States to their 14-point proposal to end the war conflict.