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Two trains collide in Denmark, with four people being critically injured. Egetved is the mayor of Gribskov and said that those with critical injuries were flown to the National Hospital, Copenhagen. She wrote on Facebook that the local track was used by many Gribskov workers, students and residents. Rail accidents are rare in Denmark. One expert suggested that the train driver had overridden a stop sign as the train left the local station. The Gribskov Line is not believed to have an automated safety system. Trine Egetved, a public broadcaster DR, said that it was shocking that the two trains could collide.

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Pentagon: US Navy chief leaves post ‘effectively immediately’ 25 minutes agoSareen HabeshianReutersUS Navy secretary John Phelan will leave the Trump administration on Wednesday. His departure will be “effectively immediately”, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell stated in a post on social media. Navy Undersecretary Hung Cao will serve on an acting basis in the role, which is largely administrative.Phelan is the latest high-ranking military leader to leave the administration in recent months. His departure coincides with the US-Israeli war against Iran and the continuing US blockade of Strait of Hormuz. The Navy has not given a reason. Unconfirmed media reports claim that his departure was due to tensions within the American leadership regarding shipbuilding issues. Parnell wrote: “On behalf the Secretary of war and Deputy secretary of war, we thank Secretary Phelan on behalf of the Department and United States Navy for his service.” “We wish him success in his future endeavors.” “It’s just weeks after US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth requested Army Chief of Staff Randy George step down from his position. Gen David Hodne, Maj Gen William Green and two other Army officials were also removed from their posts recently. Phelan lost his job because he also clashed with Hegseth about the implementation of Trump’s shipbuilding initiative. This was according to sources that spoke to several news outlets. Hegseth asks US Army top general to resign. The secretary’s role is largely administration and includes formulating policy, recruiting, equipping and training the Navy, as also overseeing budgeting, logistics, like construction and repair of naval vessels and facilities. Phelan, who was not The businessman was one of the major donors to Trump’s presidential campaign. They appeared together at Mar-a-Lago in December last year when Trump announced the US would commission new, heavily armed Navy battleships named after him as part of a revamped, “Golden Fleet”, which Phe “Eventually, someone was going to be held accountable for the lackadaisical attitude towards this.” Peek said that I would guess that about 30% of the problem is this. “The other 30% – Phelan’s replacement is well known to MAGA base. I would bet that it’s a replacement with someone who he likes or trusts better,” Peek added. Trump unveils plans for “Golden Fleet” battleships named in his honorPhe The AP reported that the Navy’s new leadership will continue the US naval blockade against Iranian ports despite a ceasefire. The White House Press Secretary KarolineLeavitt said that the president was “satisfied with the ongoing US navy blockade of Iranian ports” and “understands Iran’s very weak position”.Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that it is “not feasible” for Subscribe to the UK readers here. Sign up here if you are not in the UK. US Armed ForcesUnited States

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Lebanon Official The Kha Official ” Sala The The The Clayton ” This The According It The Sara Lebanon C C I At According The The IDF said earlier on Wednesday that Hezbollah launched an attack on Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.On the same day, Hezbollah issued four statements saying it had struck Israeli targets in south Lebanon, “in response to the Israeli enemy’s violation of the ceasefire”, according to the AFP news agency.Last week, a meeting hosted by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio brought Lebanese and Israeli envoys together for the first direct, high-level contact in three decades between the two countries.Following the talks, their governments agreed to implement a 10-day cessation of hostilities that began on Friday in order to “enable good-faith negotiations toward a permanent security and peace agreement”, the US state department said.Ahead of Thursday’s follow-up talks in Washington, Lebanon’s president confirmed that efforts were under way to extend the ceasefire.Aoun said preserving Lebanese sovereignty over all of its territory was his top priority, and that Lebanese negotiators would seek an end to Israeli attacks, the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, release of Lebanese prisoners in Israel, deployment of Lebanese troops along the Israeli border, and the beginning of reconstruction process, according to a statement from his office.A Lebanese official told AFP news agency that Lebanon would request a one-month extension of the ceasefire at the talks.In a speech to Israeli diplomats, Israel’s foreign minister said the two countries should “work together against the terror state that Hezbollah built”.Three Lebanese journalists killed in Israeli strike, say broadcastersIsraeli triple-tap strike kills three paramedics in Lebanon, officials sayAl Jazeera condemns killing of journalist in Israeli strike in GazaMiddle EastIsraelHezbollahLebanonIran war

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China has weathered Trump’s Tariffs but the Iran War is taking its toll7 hoursLaura BickerChina Correspondent, Foshan and GuangzhouIt is a sombre gathering on the backstreets of China’s largest manufacturing hub, where workers smoke under a tree, in front of storefronts that advertise temporary factory jobs. “No one understands our life,” says a man who refused to be identified. “We work and we work, but have no life.” Please help us,” says another – a rare and risky plea made to a foreign reporter. They seem desperate, struggling with the massive shifts that have occurred in Chinese manufacturing from cheap, mass produced goods to automated advanced technology. It was resilient, however, and reported a GDP growth of around 5 percent. But the discontent remained. The Middle East conflict has taken a new toll on factory orders, costs, and jobs. In Foshan, a southern industrial province in Guangdong in China, the best opportunity for workers is displayed in bright red letters in front of them. A few weeks of molding plastic or screwing parts of a phone together, for 18-20 yuan per hour, which is just a few pounds or dollars. Another worker from a rural area says, “I will try to find work elsewhere.” Costfoto / NurPhoto via Getty ImagesChina has been insulated from the worst of the fuel crisis by its enviable oil reserve and the leadership it has taken on renewables and electric vehicles. The war is choking a vital shipping route in the Strait of Hormuz and this is causing further pain to the sluggish Chinese economic system that heavily relies on exports. The cost of fabrics has increased by around 20%, says a trader who did not want to be identified. Workers are moving cylinders of fabric to carts that will be taken to local factories where they will be cut and sewn to clothes for world retailers such as Zara, Shein, and Temu. This is the largest fabric market in the world, located an hour from Foshan. Motorbikes are laden with vibrant textiles as trucks and vans honk through the streets to pick up or drop off Each shop owner and seller has a similar story. Their trade depends on a steady and cheap supply of oil, in the form petrochemicals. The higher oil prices have now hit them hard. One trader, over tea in the back room of a trading office, says that it means fewer orders. He says that some customers refuse to pay more, and rolls of fabrics are piling up at the warehouse. If they don’t pass on the rising cost to the customer they absorb it themselves. It’s hard for those already working on slim margins. A year ago, during the US-China trade war, Guangzhou was a city of defiance. This time there is resignation. But there are still opportunities in the uncertainty. A short drive away, manufacturers welcome buyers from around the globe in the cavernous Halls of the Canton Fair. Humanoid robotics sing and wave as international visitors take selfies. This is the China that Beijing wants the world to see. There are long queues for AI glasses that can translate foreign languages, and robotic legs that help climb mountains. The price of these everyday gadgets is increasing, according to traders. This is because they are made from plastic, which is a product that uses oil in the manufacturing process. They are made from plastic, which is oil-based. But buyers are still coming because businesses are ploughing forward to serve the market. The Chinese Passenger Car Association reports that 350,000 EVs were exported in March alone, a 30% increase from February and a 140% increase from March last year. EVs are also one of China’s biggest exports to the Middle East. But now trader Joyce Liu is finding it difficult to get shipments to customers. Some of the cars still await at Chinese ports. “She is at the fair in order to find new buyers, whether from Africa, South America or Turkey, but many of the EV stands have people from India, Bangladesh, and Turkey. In some countries, waiting lists for Chinese electric vehicles have increased as petrol and diesel prices rise. But there is also a delegation from Oman inspecting the cars in bright spotlights with an advertisement written both in English and Arabic. They have decided to make a deal with the trader and are haggling. “We are here to cooperate with Chinese companies.” Zahir Mohammed Zahir Al-Kaabi says, “It’s hard now, but Inshallah (God willing) the war will end and business will be great.” That is also what Beijing wants. Ironically, China wanted to see a declining US. Is this the America China wanted? It would prefer an America that was more predictable and easier to manage for Beijing. She adds that “a balance is needed because Beijing does not want to irritate Trump”. She believes that the May summit will temper China’s reaction to the war. Beijing wants to do everything it can to ensure that meeting. “China is calling from the sidelines for a ceasefire while pushing its Iranian friend towards the negotiation table. Trump also seems to want this. Xi has also been meeting and making phone calls with the Crown Princes of the UAE and Saudi Arabia. This is China flexing their diplomatic muscles, says William Figueroa of the University of Groningen. “It’s a way for China to show the United States and partners in the region how serious it is about its commitments. This has a global reach.” “It reminds us that China is not just the center of the global economic system. It is increasingly at a centre of global power. But this means little to workers in Foshan who are frustrated with stagnant wages. One of them shows her pass from the Canton Fair. He laughs as he puffs on his cigarette. “I cleaned the bathrooms,” he says. What is the plan? China’s ambitions are being upset by the Iran war. Will it work? China’s defiant attitude to Trump’s America ChinaIran WarChina-US RelationsChina Economy

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US It For It It’s hard to know if this is reality speaking, or the voice of an impatient man, anxious to remove Iran from his most urgent to-do list before King Charles arrives in Washington for a state visit next Monday – and Trump’s much anticipated visit to China not long afterwards.Iran dismissed the president’s suggestion that he was giving Tehran time to come up with a “unified position”, but it seems unlikely that the regime, already bruised and battered by the war, will break the ceasefire, thus inviting more punishment from the air.In the meantime, what are we to make of the Iranian delegation’s reluctance to get on a plane for the short ride to Islamabad?Iran accuses the US of a “breach of commitments” and cites what it called Washington’s “contradictory behaviour”.Donald Trump’s wildly conflicting public pronouncements – threatening apocalyptic punishment one moment and offering an olive branch the next, claiming all the while that Iran has already made significant concessions – have muddied the waters.Iran still complains that it has entered negotiations twice in the past year, only to be attacked by Israel and the United States.But Donald Trump’s Truth Social post announcing the ceasefire extension, lacking its usual bombast, spoke of an Iranian regime that is “seriously fractured, not unexpectedly”.For a man who has trumpeted the fact that he has already achieved regime change in Iran, was this an admission that Washington is struggling to know who it’s dealing with?Has “regime fracture” made the business of diplomacy with Iran – never the easiest art to master – that much more difficult?Deliberately or not, the president, through his choice of words, briefly joined a debate that has been raging among seasoned Iran watchers in recent days: who’s in charge in Iran now that so much of the old leadership is gone?Why and how is US blockading Iranian ports in Strait of Hormuz?The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump’s presidencyIran sees mass redundancies from war with US and IsraelMiddle EastIranUnited StatesIran war