By AFRO Staff The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) has issued an alert on Facebook and other social media platforms warning drivers to “avoid I-695 southeast corridor” as a portion of the I-695 Francis Scott Key Bridge suffered a “collapse due to ship strike.” The I-95 and I-895 tunnels are alternative routes to the Key Bridge.
The Arizona Department of Transportation said it was aware of the announcement from California and was closely monitoring the situation. "Public safety is our highest priority, and we are in regular communication with and closely monitoring Cruise and other companies testing and operating self-driving vehicles in Arizona," it said in a statement. California's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) suspended Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment and driverless testing permit, calling the vehicles a
The Kremlin said on Monday it was closely monitoring what it called a "potentially dangerous" situation in Kosovo, where ethnic Serb gunmen stormed a village at the weekend, battling police and barricading themselves into a monastery. Russia does not recognise Kosovo, which has a majority ethnic Albanian population, as an independent country and traditionally supports Serbia, with which it has close religious and cultural ties.
Authorities in the UK say they are "closely monitoring" the spread of a disease that can be deadly to cattle. More than 150 outbreaks of epizootic haemorrhagic disease (EHD) have been recorded in Spain, Portugal and southern Italy since November last year. Scientists from the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) fear that warmer summers caused by climate change may have contributed to the sharp rise in outbreaks in southern Europe.