Authorities confirmed that more than 800 people were killed and thousands more injured as a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck southeastern Afghanistan late on Sunday. Rescuers are battling to reach remote, mountainous areas cut off from mobile networks along the Pakistani border, where many mud-brick homes collapsed in the quake.
A European Union spokesperson said on Monday that the Global Positioning System of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s aircraft was jammed while en route to Bulgaria on Sunday, though it ultimately landed safely. Bulgarian authorities said they suspect Russia’s involvement in the incident. The incident occurred while von der Leyen was on a four-day tour to EU member states in Eastern Europe….