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Category: Accidents
An additional 20 cubic meters of water per second is flowing into the main channel of the Danube following the opening of the lock at the Ratkeve-Shorokshar section. According to Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar, this could raise the water level near the Paks Nuclear Power Plant by two centimeters.
“Moldovan Railways” stated that the grain train, which derailed on a “problematic” section of track, reached its destination—the port of Giurgiulești. However, the incident on August 15 highlighted the deplorable state of Moldova’s infrastructure just as the government was promising to create a safe corridor for Ukraine.
Seven freight cars carrying grain derailed on the evening of August 15 near the village of Kirkany in the Cahul district. The train was heading toward Giurgiulești.
On Thursday, at around 11:30 a.m. local time, an explosion occurred near a storage tank on the premises of Gunvor Energy in the Europort area (Port of Rotterdam).
The Jacques Chirac Museum in Sarran, France, has been robbed again. This is the third robbery at the museum in less than a year, despite the tightening of security measures following the previous thefts.
In the village of Krokmaz in the Ștefan Voda district in southeastern Moldova, fragments believed to be from a combat drone were discovered following an explosion and a subsequent fire in the vegetation.
Since the beginning of 2026, victims of physical attacks aimed at stealing cryptocurrency have lost more than $30 million, according to a report by the analytics firm Chainalysis. And if this trend continues, experts believe that this year could be the worst on record in terms of the number of such incidents. By comparison, this figure reached a record $58 million for the entire year of 2025.
The head of the AIPA department has been detained in connection with a case involving influence peddling.
An armed man was detained in California who was allegedly surveying the security system ahead of a planned fundraiser for U.S. President Donald Trump.
On the banks of the Danube, near the town of Ryakovo in Bulgaria, the remains of an ancient mammoth have been uncovered. The river, with water levels at a historic low due to the recent heat waves, has exposed the bones, which, according to researchers at the Regional History Museum in Ruse, belong to a specimen of the species “Mammuthus primigenius,” better known as the woolly mammoth.
The forest fire warning alert (“yellow code”) has been extended for another week across the entire territory of the Republic of Moldova—the second time this July. Concurrently with this measure, the Meteorological and Environmental Monitoring Agency has issued a “yellow alert” for the period from August 1 to August 3 due to abnormal heat.
A criminal case has been opened against a courier working for Ukrainian scammers who attempted to defraud a Chisinau lawyer of more than half a million lei.
On Tuesday, July 28, two powerful earthquakes struck the southern part of the country, in Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the area in the afternoon, followed by a tsunami warning for Ariake and Yatsushiro Bays. Almost immediately afterward, another quake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck.
In Tulcea County, located on the border with Ukraine, air raid alerts were issued twice on July 27 due to the threat of falling objects.
In the first six months of 2026, 27 people, including five children, drowned in Moldovan bodies of water. The National Public Health Agency (ANSP) released these figures as the summer season gets underway, a time when the number of water-related incidents tends to rise.
More than 250,000 people have been evacuated due to wildfires in France and Spain. Both countries have requested assistance from their European Union partners as the fires continue to spread amid hot and dry weather.
On Friday, around 11:00 a.m., the pilot of an F-16 fighter jet shot down a drone in the southern part of Buzău County. The drone crashed in an uninhabited area, posing no danger to the public.
On the evening of July 23, nearly the entire territory of Georgia experienced a widespread power outage. Residents of Tbilisi, Batumi, Kutaisi, Telavi, Borjomi, Zugdidi, and a number of other cities and towns across the country were left without power. In some areas, the power outages also led to partial disruptions in the water supply.
Sergey Ivanov, a member of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, reported that he managed to contain a fire near his wheat field in time. In his opinion, the cause was not the hot weather, but an act of arson.
Moldova’s State Hydrometeorological Service has extended the “yellow alert” warning of a fire risk through the end of this month.
