At Least 47 Injured After Car Drives Into Crowd; Germany Says Ukraine Free to Use Long-Range Weapons | NTD Good Morning (May 27)
At least 47 people were injured in Liverpool, England, on Monday evening after a car plowed into a crowd of soccer fans celebrating their team’s title win. Police say they’ve arrested a 53-year-old British man, who they believe acted alone. Officials believe the incident to be an isolated event and are not treating it as terrorism.
Germany’s new chancellor said Ukraine can now strike targets inside Russia without range limits using Western-supplied weapons, a major policy shift. The Kremlin condemned this, warning it could harm fragile peace talks. Ukraine says Russia is not interested in peace but plans to escalate the war, citing new intelligence and recent attacks. Meanwhile, calls grow louder in the United States for tougher sanctions against Russia.
A Chinese American citizen is set to be sentenced for helping run a secret Chinese police station in New York as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s global campaign of transnational repression. Prosecutors say dissidents and others were targeted on U.S. soil. Meanwhile, Texas just made such repression a felony under a new state law.
