## Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death

Authored by yle.fi

Helsinki traffic engineer Roni Utriainen emphasised that credit belongs to everyone on the road — motorists, cyclists and pedestrians alike.

A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.

"A lot of factors contributed to this, but speed limits are one of the most important," said Roni Utriainen, a traffic engineer with the city's Urban Environment Division.

In addition, cooperation with traffic police has intensified and more traffic cameras and automated enforcement systems have been introduced.

"Public transport in Helsinki is excellent, which reduces car use, and with it, the number of serious accidents," Utriainen noted.

"The direction has been positive for years," he said, pointing out that no pedestrians were killed in Helsinki traffic in 2019 either. »

### Amid Trump’s tariff shock, India informs US it won’t purchase F 35 fighter jets

Authored by businesstoday.in

Trump’s abrupt announcement of a 25% tariff on Indian goods—set to take effect August 7—has caught Indian officials off guard.

Trump’s claim that his diplomacy helped end the May ceasefire between India and Pakistan has been flatly denied by New Delhi.

However, diplomatic channels remain open, with India still preparing to host the upcoming Quad leaders’ summit alongside the U.S., Japan, and Australia. »

### Trump is trying to turn India against Russia. It won’t work.

Authored by msnbc.com

Trump has essentially endorsed the same strategy Biden administration outlined years prior.

Yet even as Trump seems to be getting increasingly tough on Putin for stonewalling peace talks, two questions are front of mind.

And second, by sanctioning India, does Trump risk undermining a critical strategic relationship that every U.S. president since the turn of the century has sought to cultivate?. »

### HIV rates among Russian soldiers surge 2,000% since start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Authored by kyivindependent.com

It attributes the rise to several factors including blood transfusions for wounded soldiers, reusing syringes in field hospitals, and soldiers engaging in unprotected sex and drug use.

"There is no objective reason why HIV should be decreasing across the world — except in Russia.

In their statement, Russian prosecutors claim the charity is "focused on the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations, Western family models, and gender reassignment. »

### An earthquake has undermined Putin's nuclear strategy - we must seize on it

Authored by inews.co.uk

Russia’s nuclear submarine base in the Far East appears to have been damaged by the tsunami which swept Russia’s Pacific coast on Wednesday after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake.

This is Russia’s largest nuclear submarine base for its strategic nuclear deterrent, and also other nuclear-powered submarines.

Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE is a former commander of UK and Nato CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) forces. »

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