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World in brief: July 28, 2025
Wagons of a derailed regional passenger train lie on a railroad line near Riedlingen, Germany, July 28, 2025

GERMANY: Investigators said today they believed a landslide brought on by heavy rainfall was the likely cause of a train derailment in southern Germany which killed three people and injured 41 more.

More than 100 people were on board the train when it derailed on Sunday evening in a forested area near Riedlingen about 98 miles west of Munich.

INDIA: Indian troops killed three suspected militants in a gunfight in a forested area in disputed Kashmir, officials said today.

The Indian military said three militants were killed “in an intense firefight” in Dachigam, some 19-miles north-east of the city of Srinagar.

Monday’s incident is the second major gunfight since a massacre in the region in April that killed 26 mostly Hindu tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

THAILAND: A gunman shot and killed five people at a popular fresh food market in the Thai capital today before killing himself, police said, attributing the shooting to a personal grudge.

The victims included four security guards at the Or Tor Kor market in northern Bangkok, according to a police statement. It said a vendor there was also killed, and that two others were wounded.

TARIFFS: The United States and the European Union agreed on 15 per cent tariffs on European imports to the US, with no duties to be levied on US imports to the EU, US President Donald Trump said after a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Scotland.

The Trump administration had originally threatened 30 per cent tariffs on exports from the EU.

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