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KYIV — Russian strikes on at least 10 regions in Ukraine have left a path of death and destruction over the past 24 hours, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country said on Wednesday.Denise Brown issued a statement deploring this “new wave of massive Russian attacks”, and appealed for the violence to end.“Grain storage facilities, vital for the Ukrainian farmers and global food security, have been hit in the Danube area,” she said. “A school in the Sumy region was damaged, and teachers were killed and injured.”International media reported that a drone fired by Russia hit the school on Wednesday morning, citing Ukraine’s interior minister. The incident occurred in the city of Romny, located in the northeast.Four people — the school director, deputy director, secretary...
August 23, 2023
Top UN aid official in Ukraine deplores latest wave of ‘massive Russian attacks’
August 23, 2023
Greek fires rage after migrant tragedy near border
August 23, 2023
French airport to be renamed after Queen Elizabeth II in tribute
EDINBURGH — New figures have revealed that Scotland still has the highest number of drug-related deaths per million population in Europe.The latest data, published Tuesday, shows drug deaths in Scotland fell to 1,051 last year from 1,330 the year before.However, this reduction in deaths contrasts with fewer than 300 deaths, in total, in 1996.The rate of drug deaths compared to other countries, however, is huge.Based on the latest Scotland figures, and figures from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction about drug deaths across Europe, while Scotland now has 248 deaths per million population, the next nearest countries have much lower death rates.Finland, for example, has 79 per million population, while Ireland has 73 per million.The top ten worst countries in Europe...
August 23, 2023
Scotland drugs deaths remain highest in Europe
August 23, 2023
Major UK bank calls on social media companies to compensate victims of scams
August 23, 2023
Tech companies in spotlight as EU's new digital rules come into force
August 23, 2023
Russia downs two drones as building in central Moscow hit
August 22, 2023
Greece wildfires: Eighteen bodies found in Greek forest
GENEVA — As sweltering conditions continue to grip large parts of Europe, temperatures have “reached new heights” in Switzerland, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Tuesday.Speaking in Geneva, WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis said that a new altitude record for the freezing point had been set a day earlier, climbing to 5,298 meters (17,381 feet) — well above Europe’s very highest peaks including Mont Blanc, at 4,811 meters (15,784 feet).WMO figures show that this is 115 meters above the previous record of July 25, 2022 and the highest since measurements began in 1954.Nullis explained that the freezing level had been measured by a Meteo-Suisse weather balloon above Payerne in the western canton of Vaud.“The impact of this heat on glaciers is playing out before...
August 22, 2023
From Death Valley to the Swiss Alps, extreme weather records hit new heights
August 22, 2023
Moscow sewer: All eight members of tour party confirmed dead in floods
