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Authorities in Spain say at least 39 people have been killed after a high-speed train left the tracks and slammed into another such train heading in the opposite direction.
NPR's Miguel Macias says dozens of passengers were also injured.
The routes that connect multiple cities in Andalusia in southern Spain,
with Madrid, come together in the region of Córdoba.
That's where a train that was traveling from Malaga to Madrid collided with the train headed for Huelva.
Transport Minister Oscar Puente says the train that derailed was only four years old and the track itself had been renovated in May 2025.
The accident is tremendously strange, Puente said last night,
as the trains were also traveling on a flat stretch of track because of the accident is under investigation.
Miguel Macias and Pierre Nieuze, Seville, Spain.
President Trump's repeated remarks about the U.S.
acquiring Greenland are expected to be the focus of European Union leaders when they meet later this week in Brussels.
As Terry Schultz reports,
EU officials are also expected to consider economic penalties against the U.S.
The president of the European Council decided the 27 national leaders need to meet in person to discuss President Trump's repeated threats to annex Greenland,