Multiple people were rushed to hospital after a car veered into pedestrians, and then into a brick wall, in the Gesundbrunnen area of Berlin on Wednesday night, according to local media reports.A police officer is reportedly among the wounded, according to UK newspaper The Mirror.Berlin Fire Department said the car "suddenly lurched from the roadway onto the sidewalk" as police attempted to stop it for an inspection."A pedestrian was trapped under the vehicle and suffered life-threatening injuries," a spokesperson for Berlin Fire Department has said. The incident is currently under investigation though reports indicate it is not believed to be terror-related.

US President Donald Trump maintained on Wednesday that the US annexation of Greenland is critical to American national security, as his vice president, JD Vance, prepares to travel there."If we don't have Greenland, we can't have good national security," Trump told reporters.

Israel is conducting strikes in Lebanon and Syria, Arab media reported early Thursday morning.Footage circulating on social media showed attacks on the Syrian port city of Latakia.Additionally, a vehicle in southern Lebanon was reportedly targeted earlier in the evening.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised the test of suicide drones and said the country would make a strong push for a longer-term unmanned aerial vehicle program, South Korea's Yonhap news reported on Thursday.