World
Teen dies from injuries four months after awning collapse in Serbia
The teenager is now the 16th fatality in the tragic collapse of a concrete awning at a train station in northern Serbia.
A 19-year-old died on Friday in a hospital in Serbia, becoming the 16th fatality in the collapse of a concrete awning at a train station in November. The tragedy triggered months of anti-corruption protests rattling Serbia’s government.
Vukašin Crnčević died more than four months after tons of concrete crashed down on 1 November without warning, on him and other people outside the central train station in the northern city of Novi Sad.
Thousands of people on Friday evening marched through the streets of Novi Sad and lit candles in a vigil for Crnčević.
Many in Serbia believe the deadly crash was the result of poor renovation work on the station building which arose from rampant government corruption, negligence and disrespect of the safety regulations.
Months-long protests demanding accountability over the crash have drawn hundreds of thousands of people. Daily protests and blockades have up to now included 15-minute silence for those who had died in the disaster.
Silent traffic blockades were held on a number of different locations in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, Novi Sad and other cities on Friday.
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić announced plans on Friday to organise counter-rallies, which could further escalate tensions and potentially cause clashes between groups of protesters.
In the southern city of Niš, protesters threw eggs and water at the mayor from the ruling Serbian Progressive Party in a Friday protest. Riot police units were deployed to secure the party meeting.
Vučić demanded in a video posted on Instagram that all “bandits” be arrested. He announced he would visit Niš, promising to put “all the thugs” behind bars.
Vučić accuses protesters of “terrorising” people in Serbia and of bringing about violence, although the anti-graft protests — which are led by university students — have been largely peaceful.
The latest rally in Belgrade last weekend was among the biggest ever held in the Balkan country, which has a long record of anti-government demonstrations. Authorities have faced accusations of using a sonic cannon against protesters during the commemorative silence on Saturday evening, Vučić and other government officials have denied this accusation.
Initially, 14 people were killed and three were injured in the Novi Sad station crash. Belgrade’s military hospital, which was treating Crnčević, said that he died due to “complex injuries” and “ensuing complications.”
Russian forces launched a barrage of 367 drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities overnight, including the capital Kyiv, in the largest aerial attack of the war so far, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more, officials said.
The dead included three children in the northern region of Zhytomyr, local officials there said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the United States, which has taken a softer public line on Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin, since President Donald Trump took office, to speak out.
“The silence of America, the silence of others in the world only encourages Putin,” he wrote on Telegram.
TRUMP TALKS WITH PUTIN, SPARS WITH SOUTH AFRICAN LEADER, THREATENS EU TARIFF HIKE IN 18TH WEEK IN OFFICE
Overnight, Russia launched its largest aerial assault on Ukraine since the war started. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
“Every such terrorist Russian strike is reason enough for new sanctions against Russia.”
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said 12 people had been killed and 60 more wounded. Earlier death tolls given separately by regional authorities and rescuers had put the number of dead at 13.
“This was a combined, ruthless strike aimed at civilians. The enemy once again showed that its goal is fear and death,” he wrote on Telegram.
The assault comes as Ukraine and Russia prepare to conduct the third and final day of a prisoner swap in which both sides will exchange a total of 1000 people each.
U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg said on Sunday the attack was “a clear violation” of the 1977 Geneva Peace Protocols and called for an immediate ceasefire.
Some 347 drones and missiles were reportedly used in the attack. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
Ceasefire Efforts
Ukraine and its European allies have sought to push Moscow into signing a 30-day ceasefire as a first step to negotiating an end to the three-year war.
Their efforts suffered a blow earlier this week when Trump declined to place further sanctions on Moscow for not agreeing to an immediate pause in fighting, as Kyiv had wanted.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia had launched 298 drones and 69 missiles in its overnight assault, although it said it was able to down 266 drones and 45 missiles.
Damage extended to a string of regional centers, including Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, as well as Mykolaiv in the south and Ternopil in the west.
UKRAINE, RUSSIA PRISONER SWAP NOT A ‘CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURE’ THAT WILL LEAD TO PEACE NEGOTIATIONS: EX-CIA STATION CHIEF
In Kyiv, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city’s military administration, said 11 people were injured in drone strikes. No deaths were reported in the capital, although four were killed in the region around the city, according to officials.
This was the second large aerial attack in two days. On Friday evening, Russia launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles at Kyiv in waves that continued through the night.
In northeastern Ukraine, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said early on Sunday that drones hit three city districts and injured three people. Blasts shattered windows in high-rise apartment blocks.
Strikes were reported in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and other cities. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
Drone strikes killed a 77-year-old man and injured five people in the southern city of Mykolaiv, the regional governor said. He published a picture of a residential apartment block with a large hole from an explosion and rubble scattered over the ground.
In the western region of Khmelnytskyi, many hundreds of kilometers away from the frontlines of fighting, four people were killed, and five others wounded, according to the governor.
“Without pressure, nothing will change and Russia and its allies will only build up forces for such murders in Western countries,” the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak wrote on Telegram.
“Moscow will fight as long as it has the ability to produce weapons.”
Russia’s Defence Ministry reported that its air defence units had intercepted or destroyed 95 Ukrainian drones over a four-hour period. The Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, said 12 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted on their way to the capital.
Joseph Neumeyer, who is also a German citizen, approached the building on May 19 with Molotov cocktails, officials say.
A dual United States and German citizen has been arrested on charges that he travelled to Israel and attempted to firebomb the branch office of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, federal prosecutors in New York have said.
Israeli officials deported Joseph Neumeyer to New York on Saturday and he had an initial court appearance before a federal judge in Brooklyn on Sunday. His criminal complaint was unsealed on Sunday.
Prosecutors say Neumeyer walked up to the embassy building on May 19 with a backpack containing Molotov cocktails, but got into a confrontation with a guard and eventually ran away, dropping his backpack as the guard tried to detain him.
Law enforcement then tracked Neumeyer down to a hotel a few blocks away from the embassy and arrested him, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York.
“This defendant is charged with planning a devastating attack targeting our embassy in Israel, threatening death to Americans, and [US] President [Donald] Trump’s life,” US Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. “The Department will not tolerate such violence and will prosecute this defendant to the fullest extent of the law.”
Neumeyer’s court-appointed attorney, Jeff Dahlberg, declined to comment.
The attack took place against the backdrop of Israel’s ongoing deadly war on Gaza, now in its 19th month. Nearly 54,000 Palestinians have been killed in the blockaded enclave, where a famine is now looming as Israeli forces continue to seal vital border crossings and uphold a crippling blockade on humanitarian aid including food, medicine, and fuel.
Neumeyer, 28, who is originally from Colorado and has dual US and German citizenship, had travelled from the US to Canada in early February and then arrived in Israel in late April, according to court records.
He had made a series of threatening social media posts before attempting the attack, prosecutors said.
During his first term, Trump recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital despite Palestinian objections, in a move that has not been recognised by the international community. He also moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other regions came under a massive Russian drone-and-missile attack Sunday that killed at least 12 people and injured dozens.
A view of residential houses destroyed by a Russian strike in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
People clear the rubble of residential houses destroyed by a Russian strike in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A woman reacts inside a house damaged by a Russian strike in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
People use plastic to cover a roof of a house damaged by a Russian strike in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukrainian officials described it as the largest aerial assault since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
A man stands on the rubble of a destroyed house where three children were killed by a Russian strike in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A man clears the rubble of a destroyed house where three children were killed by a Russian strike in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
People clear the rubble of a house destroyed by a Russian strike in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
People carry flowers to the rubble of a destroyed house where three children were killed by a Russian strike in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Women put flowers to the rubble of a destroyed house where three children were killed by a Russian strike in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
___
This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
CoComelon is headed to Disney Plus in 2027
Russia launches largest aerial attack of Ukraine war, killing at least 12
Homeland Security chief Noem visits Netanyahu ahead of Jerusalem Day
What is ketamine therapy? Mormon reality stars tout controversial treatment
NCAA baseball tournament descends into mayhem as players, coaches, parents ejected
-
Technology1 week agoMeta asks judge to throw out antitrust case mid-trial
-
World1 week agoCommissioner Hansen presents plan to cut farming bureaucracy in EU
-
News1 week agoNew Orleans jailbreak: 10 inmates dug a hole, wrote ‘to easy’ before fleeing; escape plan found
-
News1 week agoVideo: Doctors Heal Infant Using First Customized-Gene Editing Treatment
-
Movie Reviews1 week agoDevil’s Double Next Level Movie Review: Trapped in a punchline purgatory
-
Business1 week agoVideo: How Staffing Shortages Have Plagued Newark Airport
-
Business1 week agoConsumers Show Signs of Strain Amid Trump's Tariff Rollout
-
Movie Reviews1 week ago‘Nouvelle Vague’ Review: Richard Linklater’s Movie About the Making of Godard’s ‘Breathless’ Is an Enchanting Ode to the Rapture of Cinema