Taylor Swift concert attack foiled, hotel collapse in Germany

While you were sleeping, here's what global agencies reported from Wednesday to Thursday night.

• Nearly 24 hours after part of a hotel collapsed in Kroev, Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany, the last living person was pulled from the rubble - the local fire department reported late Wednesday evening. Two people died in the accident. For many hours, rescuers couldn't extract a living woman from the debris, though they managed to establish vocal contact and supply her with drinks and food. The incident occurred late Tuesday evening. According to the police, one floor of the small hotel collapsed. At the time of the accident, 14 people were in the building. Five of them were in the safe part of the hotel.

• Taylor Swift's Austrian concerts have been canceled after police thwarted a terrorist attack. Two young men were detained. "If the radical Islamists had carried out their insane plans, it would have been a disaster of almost unimaginable proportions," reported the Kronen Zeitung website. Three other suspects are still being sought.

• The relief organization World Central Kitchen (WCK) reported on the night from Wednesday to Thursday that one of its Palestinian workers, Nadi Sallout, was killed in the central part of the Gaza Strip. We are still determining the details of this tragedy, but Sallout most likely died after his working hours for WCK, added the organization.

• Thousands of people took to the streets of British cities Wednesday evening in demonstrations against the far-right, completely overshadowing the planned anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic protests. Contrary to fears, there were no significant riots, unlike in previous days.

• According to preliminary estimates announced by Brazil's environment ministry on Wednesday, 257 square miles of the Brazilian Amazon were deforested in July, 33% more than the previous year. This is the first increase in 15 months.

• Illegal migration from Mexico to the USA nearly tripled in the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 2022, the Mexican government announced Wednesday. According to Latin American media, such a significant increase may reduce the sense of security among US citizens before the November presidential elections.