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Ukrainian strikes hit Russian energy systems in Voronezh and Belgorod, officials say
KYIV — Nighttime Ukrainian strikes disrupted power and heating in two major Russian cities near the Ukrainian border, local Russian officials said Sunday, as both countries continue near-daily attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure amid stalled diplomatic efforts. In Voronezh, a drone strike triggered temporary blackouts and cut heating to parts of the city, regional Gov. Alexander Gusev said. Several drones were electronically jammed, but one sparked a fire at a utility facility that was quickly extinguished. Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels reported that a thermal power plant was targeted. Late Saturday, a missile strike caused “serious damage” to power and heating systems serving the city of Belgorod, Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said. About 20,000 households were...
November 09, 2025

Ukrainian strikes hit Russian energy systems in Voronezh and Belgorod, officials say

Russian missile and drone barrage kills six, hits energy sites across Ukraine
KYIV — At least six people were killed after Russia launched a massive overnight barrage of missiles and exploding drones on cities and energy infrastructure across Ukraine, officials said Saturday. Two people died and 12 were wounded when a strike hit an apartment building in Dnipro, while three others were killed in Zaporizhzhia. In total, 25 locations across the country — including Kyiv — were struck, leaving widespread power outages and heating disruptions as winter approaches. Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said major energy facilities were damaged in the Poltava, Kharkiv and Kyiv regions, with emergency crews working to restore electricity. The Energy Ministry reported power cuts in the Dnipropetrovsk, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa and Kirovohrad regions, though critical...
November 09, 2025

Russian missile and drone barrage kills six, hits energy sites across Ukraine

Tens of thousands protest in Lisbon against proposed labor reforms
LISBON — Tens of thousands of people marched through Portugal’s capital on Saturday to protest proposed labor reforms that unions say would erode workers’ rights and undermine job security. The center-right government is pushing legislation that would make it easier for employers to fire workers, outsource jobs to third-party companies, and limit certain types of compassionate leave — including reducing bereavement leave for women who suffer miscarriages. Officials argue the measures are needed to boost flexibility and productivity in one of Western Europe’s poorest economies. Portugal’s largest union, CGTP, denounced the proposals as “one of the greatest attacks ever made against workers” and announced a nationwide general strike for Dec. 11. The bill is expected to pass...
November 09, 2025

Tens of thousands protest in Lisbon against proposed labor reforms

Zelenskyy says Russia rushing to capture Pokrovsk to claim control of Donbas
KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is trying to seize the eastern city of Pokrovsk “as soon as possible” to bolster its claim that it can take full control of the Donbas region. Speaking after a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief’s Staff, Zelenskyy said Russian forces had launched 220 assaults on Pokrovsk in just three days. “The number one goal for the Russians is to occupy Pokrovsk as soon as possible,” he told Ukrainian media, noting that about 314 Russian troops were currently inside the city while larger forces operated on its outskirts. He added that Moscow’s offensive may be aimed at influencing Western sanctions. “Russia fears strong decisions from the United States and wants to use Pokrovsk to show success on the battlefield,”...
November 08, 2025

Zelenskyy says Russia rushing to capture Pokrovsk to claim control of Donbas

Dmitry Kurashov has been sentenced to life in jail
Russian soldier sentenced to life in jail in unprecedented Ukrainian trial
KYIV — A Ukrainian court has handed down the first jail sentence for life against a Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war.Dmitry Kurashov, 27, was found guilty of shooting dead Vitalii Hodniuk, a veteran 41-year-old Ukrainian soldier who had surrendered following capture in 2024.Ukraine's national police said that "expert reports, witness testimony and video footage from the scene confirmed that the Russian soldier deliberately killed the POW on the orders of his commanders, who had instructed troops not to take Ukrainian soldiers captive".In a months-long trial which began earlier this year, the court heard how Kurashov's unit stormed a Ukrainian position in the region of Zaporizhzhia on the morning of 6 January 2024.The prosecution said that although...
November 07, 2025

Russian soldier sentenced to life in jail in unprecedented Ukrainian trial

A banner reads: 'Kill Erdoğan with his own weapons' as protesters march during a demonstration against the Turkish president in Bern, 25 March, 2017
Swiss top court upholds conviction of four over 'Kill Erdoğan' banner at 2017 rally
BERN — Switzerland's top court has rejected an appeal by four protesters who were convicted of public incitement to a crime over a banner that called for the killing of Turkey's president at a demonstration more than eight years ago.In a statement on Wednesday, the Federal Tribunal said it upheld a lower court's decision over the banner that read "Kill Erdoğan with his own weapons," a reference to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, at a March 2017 protest in the capital Bern.The banner featured an image of the Turkish leader with a gun pointed at his temple.A regional court convicted the defendants in 2020, handing down fines and suspended prison sentences."Based on the concrete circumstances — the selected image, associated with text — the banner cannot objectively be...
November 06, 2025

Swiss top court upholds conviction of four over 'Kill Erdoğan' banner at 2017 rally

The harbour on the Island of Oleron, France
Car ramming injures 10 people on French island, authorities say
LONDON — A motorist rammed and injured several pedestrians and cyclists on the French island of Oléron, off the Atlantic coast, on Wednesday.Police swiftly arrived at the scene and apprehended the driver “with difficulty,” BFMTV reported on Wednesday, citing the mayor of Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron, Christophe Sueur.He was taken into custody, BFMTV added.Authorities subsequently opened an investigation, according to the French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez. France’s national anti-terror prosecutor’s office is also monitoring the case, BFMTV said.Ten passersby were injured, BFMTV said. At least two people are in a critical condition, the interior minister wrote in a post on X.Some of the survivors will be evacuated by helicopter to Poitiers, a city in mainland France, the mayor...
November 05, 2025

Car ramming injures 10 people on French island, authorities say

A police vehicle is parked outside the Brussels Airport
Suspected drone sightings disrupt flights at Belgium airports
BRUSSELS — Suspected drone sightings have disrupted flights at airports across Belgium on Tuesday, with no flights departing or arriving at Brussels Airport — the country's busiest.Air traffic there was suspended around 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT) after a drone sighting. An hour later it briefly reopened, before closing again shortly after.Liege Airport has also been affected and it is not clear when flights will resume. Local media also reported drone sightings at the Kleine-Brogel and Florennes military airbases, local media reports.It is the latest in a string of suspected drone sightings causing disruption at European airports — including in Munich, Copenhagen and Oslo.A statement on the Brussels Airport website on Tuesday evening read: "There are currently no departing or...
November 05, 2025

Suspected drone sightings disrupt flights at Belgium airports

Pokrovsk has been almost entirely emptied of civilians
Zelensky visits troops near embattled front line town of Pokrovsk
KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has visited troops near the town of Pokrovsk, where the fiercest front line battle between Russia and Ukraine is currently taking place.Zelensky posted photos showing him meeting personnel at a command post in the Dobropillya sector, some 20km (12 miles) north of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.Kyiv's top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskiy, said on Monday that Ukraine was increasing pressure on the Dobropillya front to "force the enemy to disperse its forces and make it impossible to concentrate their main efforts in the Pokrovsk area".Russia has been trying to seize Pokrovsk — a strategic frontline town and logistic hub — for over a year.Although it has taken them months to approach the town's borders, Russian...
November 05, 2025

Zelensky visits troops near embattled front line town of Pokrovsk

Gopichand Hinduja
Head of UK's richest family dies aged 85
LONDON — The head of Britain's richest family, Gopichand Hinduja, has died aged 85.Known as GP, Hinduja and his family made their fortune from the Indian conglomerate Hinduja Group, which operates in 11 sectors including finance, media and entertainment, and oil.It has about 200,000 staff around the world.The family said in a statement: "He will leave a deep hole at the heart of our family."They added that he would be "remembered for his formidable work".Hinduja helped transform his father's modest textile and trading businesses into a global conglomerate and one of India's largest companies.Lord Karan Bilimoria, founder of Cobra Beer, said he would be remembered as someone who "personified" the links between India and the UK."Whether it was in banking, whether it was in...
November 05, 2025

Head of UK's richest family dies aged 85

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