International
Run-over in Munich: There are already 28 injured and authorities suspect that it is an attack
The German authorities are considering the hypothesis that the run over of a group of people participating in a union demonstration in the center of the city of Munich was “an attack”, while the number of injured amounts to at least 28 and the Bavarian capital is preparing to start this Friday a high-level security conference between the United States and several countries of the European Union.
A police representative indicated in an appearance at the scene that the arrested driver was a 24-year-old Afghan citizen, while the Bavarian Prime Minister, Markus Söder, told the media that “presumably it is an attack.”
As the police spokesman explained, the vehicle approached the demonstration in the queue, overtook the police cars that escorted it and rammed against the end of the march.
The driver was then arrested, after the agents shot at his car, a Mini Cooper model vehicle, so at this time there is no longer any danger for the population.
The suspect is a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who had a police record related to narcotics and theft, authorities said, who did not specify whether he had been injured during the arrest.
The Bavarian Prime Minister said that first we have to investigate the details and examine the event, but the ‘modus operandi’ is similar to that of other deliberate attacks, so it is presumably an “attack”.
Söder said that it was “painful” that only last month in Aschaffenburg, also in Bavaria, there was another attack in which an Afghan citizen killed a child and an adult with a knife.
“That’s enough,” the Bavarian Prime Minister said.
The investigations have been assumed by the Central for the Fight against Extremism and Terrorism of the Munich Attorney General’s Office.
“It’s a black day for Munich,” said the mayor of the Bavarian capital, Dieter Reiter, who was affected by the fact that among the demonstrators were his colleagues from the municipal administration.
For his part, the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said that the perpetrator of the abuse must be punished with all the harshness of the law and subsequently leave the country.
The abuse is the second massive one that occurs in Germany in two months, after it cost the lives of six people in a Christmas market in Magdeburg on December 20.
The Munich Security Conference begins tomorrow in the Bavarian capital, where heads of state and government from around the world will meet and in ten days legislative elections will be held that have already been marked by the issues of migration and the rise of the far right.
On the margins of this conference, considered one of the most important in the world, Zelensky is expected to sign a draft economic agreement as part of the peace negotiations, with representatives of Washington.
International
Israel says 136 food aid boxes airdropped into Gaza by six nations
The Israeli military announced on Sunday that 136 boxes of food aid were airdropped into Gaza by the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Germany, and Belgium.
“In recent hours, six countries conducted air drops of 136 aid packages containing food for residents in the southern and northern Gaza Strip,” read the statement, which added that the operation was coordinated by COGAT, the Israeli defense body overseeing civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Israeli military emphasized that they will “continue working to improve the humanitarian response alongside the international community” and reiterated their stance to “refute false allegations of deliberate famine in Gaza.”
The announcement comes as UN agencies warn Gaza faces an imminent risk of famine. More than one in three residents go days without eating, and other nutrition indicators have dropped to their worst levels since the conflict began.
The agencies also noted the difficulty of “collecting reliable data in current conditions, as Gaza’s health systems —already devastated by nearly three years of conflict— are collapsing.”
Meanwhile, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry reported on Sunday that hospitals in the enclave recorded six deaths from hunger and malnutrition on Saturday, all of them adults.
International
Seven inmates dead, 11 injured after violent riot in Veracruz prison
Seven inmates were killed and eleven others injured in a violent riot and clash inside a penitentiary in the Mexican state of Veracruz, local authorities reported on Sunday.
The disturbance began on Saturday afternoon at the Social Reintegration Center in the port city of Tuxpan, in northern Veracruz, when inmates staged a protest over extortion and assaults allegedly carried out by members of the criminal group known as Grupo Sombra.
The protesting prisoners clashed with another group of inmates and set fires inside and outside the facility, seizing control of the prison for more than 12 hours.
During the takeover, the rioters released several videos, including one showing four prisoners —believed to be members of Grupo Sombra— accusing them of being behind the violence and extortion inside the prison.
It wasn’t until Sunday morning that elements of the Mexican Army, the National Guard, and local police forces managed to enter the prison and regain control. The state’s Public Security Secretariat confirmed that around 9:00 a.m. local time a coordinated operation restored full order and reestablished control of the facility.
Authorities also reported that the fires set by inmates were fully extinguished.
Official figures confirmed the “tragic” deaths of seven inmates and injuries to eleven people, who are now receiving medical treatment in various regional hospitals.
This is the second deadliest riot in Veracruz in the past eight years. In 2018, a violent uprising at the La Toma medium-security prison left seven people dead (six police officers and one unidentified man) and at least 22 injured (15 officers and seven inmates).
The riot follows the kidnapping and killing of retired teacher and taxi driver Irma Hernández, a case that shocked the entire country and was attributed to Grupo Sombra. Images of Hernández kneeling, surrounded by armed men in the municipality of Álamo, sparked nationwide outrage. She was murdered after refusing to pay extortion demands from the criminal organization.
Despite these incidents, Veracruz has not seen a spike in the daily homicide average. In fact, there has been a 1.6% decrease in homicides in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System.
In 2023, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported 3,094 incidents in Mexican prisons —an 18.5% increase from the previous year— resulting in 100 deaths and 892 injuries.
International
Study finds COVID-19 vaccines prevented 2.5 million deaths worldwide
COVID-19 vaccines prevented an estimated 2,533,000 deaths worldwide between 2020 and 2024, according to an international study led by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Italy and Stanford University in the United States, published in the journal JAMA Health Forum. Researchers calculated that one death was prevented for every 5,400 doses administered.
The analysis also found that the vaccines saved 14.8 million years of life, equivalent to one year of life gained for every 900 doses given.
The study, coordinated by Professor Stefania Boccia, revealed that 82% of the lives saved were people vaccinated before becoming infected with the virus, and 57% of deaths avoided occurred during the Omicron wave. In addition, 90% of the beneficiaries were adults over 60 years old.
“This is the most comprehensive analysis to date, based on global data and fewer assumptions about the evolution of the pandemic,” explained Boccia and researcher Angelo Maria Pezzullo.
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