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(Reuters) – Several people were ‘seriously injured’ after a passenger train derailed following a collision with a freight train in southern Netherlands, local media reported on Tuesday. Emergency services were at the scene in the town of Voorschoten, a village between The Hague and Amsterdam, ANP reported. (Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Christopher Cushing) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

(Reuters) – Several people were ‘seriously injured’ after a passenger train derailed following a collision with a freight train in southern Netherlands, local media reported on Tuesday. Emergency services were at the scene in the town of Voorschoten, a village between The Hague and Amsterdam, ANP reported. (Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Christopher Cushing) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Frank Pingue AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) – Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy launched a charm offensive ahead of this week’s Masters as they flew the proverbial PGA Tour flag during a practice round at Augusta National on Monday while a number of LIV Golf players also began their preparations. There is some added intrigue ahead of this year’s Masters as it will be the first since the launch of the […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck Mexico on Monday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, after a seismic alarm caused locals in the capital to evacuate buildings as a precaution. No reports of major damage or injuries were immediately reported, as the epicenter of the quake struck in southern Oaxaca state. (Reporting by Kylie Madry; Editing by Himani Sarkar and David Alire Garcia) Brought to you […]

By Zahra Matarani JAKARTA (Reuters) – Speaking in Japanese and bowing, 24-year-old Siti Maesaroh offers a tray with a mug and two bowls to a fellow student pretending to be an elderly person, before asking him if he wanted chopsticks and a spoon to eat with. The role play is an example of the type of training being offered by vocational institutions across Indonesia catering to students seeking to fill […]

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – The U.S. technological edge is eroding, an Australian intelligence chief said on Tuesday, as a Sydney conference was told the AUKUS alliance of Australia, Britain and the United States must collaborate on quantum and hypersonic technology to compete with China. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, chairman of the U.S. Special Competitive Studies Project, told the Sydney Dialogue that China was unlike the Soviet Union […]

By Lizbeth Diaz CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO (Reuters) -Eduard Caraballo screamed for help. Thick suffocating smoke was filling the cell where he was held with over 60 other migrants in northern Mexico, but there was no way out. The single door was locked shut. “We screamed for them to open the cell door, but no one helped us,” Caraballo, 26, said through tears during a phone interview from his hospital bed. […]

By Ronald Popeski (Reuters) – The U.S. is trying to wreck Russia’s planned summit with African countries as part of efforts to isolate Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published on Tuesday. Lavrov told the news site Argumenty i Fakty that Moscow was different from Western countries in its relations with Africa in that “we never tell our foreign partners how they are supposed to live. We […]

By Bhanvi Satija and Mariam Sunny (Reuters) – About one in six adults globally have experienced infertility at least once in their life, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report on Monday, urging countries to actively collect more consistent data on the disease. The report analyzed existing studies conducted from 1990 to 2021 and showed that about 17.5% of adults across the world were affected by the inability […]