A passenger train and a cargo train collided head-on in Greece on Tuesday night, killing at least 36 people and injuring 85 as the country’s deadliest rail crash in decades threw entire carriages off the tracks. Sixty-six of those injured were hospitalised, six of whom are in intensive care. The crash occurred as the passenger train emerged from a tunnel. About 250 passengers out of a total of 350 were evacuated safely to Thessaloniki on buses.
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Death toll from heavy rain in Brazil reaches 23
Heavy rains in Brazil this weekend killed at least 23 people in the southeastern states of Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo.
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Russia Is Continuing To Press Its Attack Around Bakhmut
Russian forces are continuing to press their offensive in the area around Ukraine’s Donetsk region city of Bakhmut. The Ukrainian General Staff said Russian forces launched more than 100 attacks across the front line, including around Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiyivka, and Shakhtarsk. Russia also reportedly carried out 29 air strikes and four missile strikes in the Donetsk region over the last 24 hours.
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NASA launches mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa in search of signs of life
Marking the latest foray into space exploration, NASA has launched its first mission to explore Jupiter’s moon, Europa, to determine if it harbors conditions suitable to support life. According to the agency, NASA’s Europa Clipper launched on Oct. 14 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carried into orbit on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket.
