NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a roundup of today’s news.
#ITALY Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi died today, leaving behind a trail of controversial and bizarre headlines, court rulings and comebacks.
#UKRAINE Kyiv announced Ukrainian forces had retaken three villages in the eastern region of Donetsk, the first reported gains of their new offensive.
#PHILADELPHIA US drivers began longer commutes today after an elevated section of the Interstate 95 road collapsed in Philadelphia following a fire on a fuel tanker truck.
#UK Boris Johnson accused Rishi Sunak of “talking rubbish” after Sunak claimed his predecessor asked him to overrule the vetting committee to push through his House of Lords nominations.
#AUSTRALIA A bus carrying wedding guests overturned and killed 10 people in a night-time crash as it travelled through a wine-growing area north of Sydney.
#EUROPE NATO begun the largest air force deployment exercise in Europe in the alliance’s history in a display of unity toward partners and potential threats such as Russia.
A British man was detained after climbing more than halfway up the world’s fifth-tallest skyscraper in Seoul with only his bare hands, authorities said.
More than 90 emergency, police and other personnel were dispatched to the 123-storey, 1,820ft Lotte World Tower after the man – named in reports as free climber George King-Thompson – was spotted scaling the building this morning, the fire agency in the South Korean capital said.
The man, in his 20s, reached the 72nd floor, which is about 1,020ft high, before officials took him to a gondola lift and moved him inside the building, the statement said.
The reports said he was carrying a parachute and told police that he wanted to base-jump from the top of the building.
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