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EuropeRussian air strikes hit Ukraine's capital on Wednesday morning, killing one person, injuring another and damaging energy facilities across Kyiv, city mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed. The ballistic missile attack was still ongoing during the morning hours, with explosions heard across the city as air defence units worked to repel the incoming strikes. Key Facts One
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EuropeThe head of Britain’s domestic intelligence service MI5 said on Tuesday that Iran is stepping up attempts to strike sensitive military targets in the United Kingdom, describing a “major shift” in Tehran’s ambitions toward “harder targets, like military sites.” FAKTA MI5 Director General Ken McCallum delivered the warning in his annual threat speech at MI5
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EuropeRussia hit no Ukrainian energy targets on Tuesday for the first time since US President Donald Trump announced the Ukraine energy ceasefire over the weekend, while overnight strikes continued to pound cities' transport and logistics with ballistic missiles and drones. FAKTA First day without energy strikes: Russia's defence ministry, in its daily summary of overnight
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EuropeA Bulgaria Black Sea drone attack struck two cargo ships off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast overnight on Tuesday, sinking one vessel and leaving 11 sailors missing, Bulgarian officials said. The incident, the second deadly sinking of a cargo ship in the area within a week, prompted Bulgaria to summon Russia's ambassador for consultations. FAKTA What
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EuropeHundreds of supermarkets across France have been hit by a coordinated cyberattack that hijacked the software controlling their refrigerators and freezers, forcing some units to heat up to 50°C (120°F) overnight and spoiling fresh and frozen food worth millions of euros. The Paris prosecutor’s office has launched a criminal investigation into the attack, which retailers
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EuropePope Leo XIV was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Tuesday ahead of surgery later in the day to remove a small, localized lung nodule, in the first publicly disclosed major health issue of his 17-month papacy. The 71-year-old pontiff walked into the hospital through the main entrance and waved to dozens of well-wishers who
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EuropeA 14-year-old pupil has been arrested after opening fire with a hunting shotgun at his middle school in Aubagne, southern France, wounding the principal and a teacher in what prosecutors called a rare school shooting. The attack took place on the morning of Monday, October 12, at the Joseph Lakanal middle school in Aubagne, about
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EuropeKYIV — Russian missiles struck apartment blocks in Ukraine's capital Kyiv and in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv in the early hours of Tuesday, killing civilians and wounding dozens, Ukrainian officials said, in one of the heaviest overnight barrages of the nearly five-year war. FAKTA Russian missiles hit residential buildings in Kyiv and Kharkiv early
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EuropeUkraine EU accession talks are set to take a major step on Tuesday, October 13, when the European Union is expected to open two more negotiating clusters on the country's path to joining the EU. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha voiced the expectation on Monday after meeting his Hungarian counterpart Anita Orban in Luxembourg, on the
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EuropeRussia struck a thermal power plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv just hours after US President Donald Trump announced that Moscow and Kyiv had agreed to an "energy ceasefire", according to Ukrainian officials — casting immediate doubt on whether the truce Trump claimed had taken effect at all. Announcing the supposed ceasefire on
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EuropeBERLIN — Germany’s Vice Chancellor and finance minister Lars Klingbeil has called off the India leg of his planned trip to Asia this week, his ministry announced on Monday, pointing to fast-moving political developments in Berlin. The German finance minister’s office confirmed the decision in an emailed statement, offering no further detail beyond the current
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EuropeUS President Donald Trump said it was time for Ukraine to get a new president, blaming Volodymyr Zelenskyy for rejecting deals and for refinery strikes he says drive up diesel prices.
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