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.

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.

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.

The United States on Wednesday filed a civil forfeiture complaint for $47 million in proceeds from the sale of 1 million barrels of Iranian oil, the Justice Department said in a statement.

US federal immigration agents detained a doctoral student at the University of Alabama, the university said in a statement to media on Wednesday.The university did not identify the student but records on the website of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) showed that Alireza Doroundi, an Iranian citizen, was detained by the agency. The records did not show which ICE facility he was detained in.The US Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It was not clear why the Iranian citizen was detained.Doroudi studied mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama and specialized in metallurgical engineering, according to his LinkedIn page. The New York Times and other media first reported the news.The detention comes as President Donald Trump has pledged to deport foreign pro-Palestinian protesters in the US and accused them of supporting Hamas militants, being antisemitic and posing hurdles for American foreign policy.