Authorities thwarted an attempted attack last year on anniversary at the Vienna central station, and the risk remains high on the date around the world, authorities said.

In the rolling hills of the southern Netherlands, locals have vowed to never forget the American and other Allied soldiers who gave their lives in the fight to liberate towns and villages from the Nazi occupation in World War II.

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American has docked at the International Space Station. The capsule atop a towering rocket set off from a Russian launch facility in Kazakhstan on Wednesday and docked with the station after two orbits of the Earth.

The four passengers on the Polaris Dawn mission that launched from Kennedy Space Center early Tuesday reached their goal of flying farther away from Earth than anyone since the last Apollo mission.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a three-nation, Ukraine-focused European tour in Poland after hearing repeated appeals from Ukrainian officials to use Western-supplied weaponry for long-range strikes inside Russia.

More than 100 mines have been spotted by U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft and allies in the Black Sea since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago, the commanding officer of U.S. 6th Fleet said this week.

Former Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha on Wednesday said he was formally charged with corruption in connection with a property deal, describing the move as politically motivated.

Kyiv’s attempt to sway the Biden administration comes as Ukraine has faced heavy bombardment from Russia in recent days — especially on its power sector.

Moscow’s forces claim to have started an offensive to dislodge Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region of Russia, their first significant effort in more than five weeks since the start of Kyiv’s incursion.

A Kosovo policeman and three Serb gunmen were killed in the shootout in the village of Banjska in September. Kosovo has accused Serbia of involvement, but Belgrade denied it.

The protest lasted a few minutes before Carabinieri intervened. The garrison public works department repaired the fence Sunday afternoon.

The items were returned by the Arolsen Archives, the international center on Nazi persecution. It stores some 2,000 items which were seized by the Nazis from concentration camp inmates from more than 30 countries.

The bridge dates back to East Germany’s formerly communist era, dpa reported, and officials at the scene said that chlorine corrosion from the time could have contributed to Wednesday’s collapse.

The tensions in Central African Republic are a window into a battle playing out across Africa as Moscow and Washington vie for influence.

Ukraine’s prime minister warned Tuesday that the country could be facing its toughest winter since the full-scale Russian invasion began, as airstrikes against the country’s beleaguered energy infrastructure intensify.

The U.S. currently opposes Ukraine using Western long-range weapons inside Russian territory, over concerns about possible Russian escalation in response.

The German government says it is cracking down on irregular migration and crime following recent extremist attacks, and plans to extend temporary border controls to all nine of its frontiers next week.

“NASA at a Crossroads,” a sweeping report by a committee of aerospace experts and published Tuesday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, warns that the agency could be on an unsustainable path, one that imperils its long-term success.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced a battle of nerves with his Labour Party on Tuesday, winning a parliamentary vote on a contentious decision to cut a payment that helps millions of pensioners pay winter heating bills — but not ending unease about it among his lawmakers.