19 h. ago Watch emergency services respond to deadly mass Russian drone attack

Five missiles and 30 drones hit 12 locations, and seven locations were hit by downed aerial objects

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27 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: EU and UK increase sanctions on Russia as drone strike on Odesa kills one

EU agrees 18th package of sanctions against Moscow, including a moving price cap on Russian oil 15% below market rates. What we know on day 1,242One person was killed and at least one apartment building set alight in Odesa after Russian forces staged a mass drone attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port. The city’s mayor, Gennadiy Trukhanov, said at least 20 drones had converged on the city. “Civilian infrastructure was damaged as a result of the attack. A residential high-rise building is on fire” and rescuers were pulling people out, he said. The Odesa region’s emergency service said later that five people were rescued from burning apartments but “one rescued woman died”.The Russian defence ministry said its air defence systems destroyed 87 Ukrainian drones in a five-hour period on Friday evening, including over the Bryansk region bordering northern Ukraine and the Moscow region. Russian aviation authorities were once again forced to suspend flights at Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo ai...

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4 d. ago Brit amputee injured in Russian drone strike treated by Ukrainian prosthetics charity

The vehicle of a British volunteer in Ukraine was struck by a Russian drone, leaving him with life-changing injuries. Now the charity wants to highlight all of those injured.

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7 d. ago Russian drone and cruise missile attacks kill at least 2 in Ukraine

Russia launched a massive drone and missile barrage on Ukraine overnight, killing at least two people and wounding more than 20

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9 d. ago Concern that Ukraine will be split up casts shadow over reconstruction talks

Leaders meet in Rome amid forecasts that more than a third of rebuild costs could fall to Russia if Ukraine concedes landEver-escalating Russian drone attacks and the concern that Ukraine will be split up under a future peace plan have cast a shadow over a meeting of European leaders to plan for the eventual reconstruction of the country.The conference is the fourth in this format and is being attended by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Germany’s Friedrich Merz, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Poland’s Donald Tusk. It comes at a time of unprecedented pressure on the Ukrainian economy as Vladimir Putin widens his targets across Ukraine, deploying record numbers of long-range drones. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Major Scottish railway line blocked and properties evacuated as fire crews attend garage blaze

Changes to services have been announced as emergency services respond to a fire.

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1 week ago Farmers turned soldiers, fields full of mines and a rural exodus: how Russia is punishing Ukraine’s countryside

Agriculture is woven into Ukrainian culture, but daily attacks, a loss of workers and land contamination are tearing the industry apartIn a field outside the eastern Ukraine city of Sumy, Mykola Mondrayev, 55, is moving the wreckage of a Russian drone. A pickup truck stands nearby, mounted with a gun, the only defence against the deadly unmanned aerial devices.Three days a week, Mondrayev serves with a territorial defence unit. The other days he works his fields. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Nightclub mass shooting leaves three dead and eight injured as major incident declared

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1 week ago Ukraine drones 'obliterate' Putin's Black Sea fleet causing mass airport panic

Ukraine has reportedly launched drone attacks on a number of Russian military targets in recent days, including the Black Sea fleet in the port of Novorossiysk in Krasnodar Krai

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2 w. ago Bloodbath cartel violence worse than ever in Mexico with beheaded bodies hanging from bridges, mass shootings and a 'extermination camps' with ovens for disposing of the dead

Once confined to remote borderlands, the carnage is now brazen, public, and unrelenting, leaving Mexican streets soaked in blood.

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2 w. ago Ukraine says it hit Russian airbase following huge drone strike

Ukraine said Saturday it struck a Russian airbase in the Voronezh region

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2 w. ago Oasis fans go WILD as Noel Gallagher sneakily emerges to watch support act Richard Ashcroft just moments before taking to the stage with brother Liam in Cardiff for long

Oasis fans went wild as they spotted Noel Gallagher watching Richard Ashcroft's support act - just an hour before he was due on stage for the huge reunion gig.

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2 w. ago Russian drone attack on Kyiv injures 14, triggers multiple fires, mayor says

Railway infrastructure was also damaged in the attack, the latest in a series of intensifying Russian assaults on the Ukrainian capitalAt least 14 people have been injured in an overnight drone attack on Kyiv that also damaged railway infrastructure, and set buildings and cars on fire throughout the city, the mayor has said, while separate explosions were reported in a city near Moscow.The attack was the latest in a series of Russian airstrikes on Kyiv that have intensified in recent weeks and included some of the deadliest assaults of the war on the city of three million people. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Chicago nightclub mass shooting leaves four dead and 14 wounded

At least 18 people have been shot outside a party for rapper Mello Buckzz near the Artis Lounge nightclub in downtown Chicago

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2 w. ago Chicago nightclub mass shooting leaves three dead and 16 wounded

At least 19 people have reportedly been shot outside Artis Lounge nightclub in downtown Chicago

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2 w. ago Mass shooting sees at least 3 dead and several injured in album launch party horror

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2 w. ago Three dead in Ukrainian drone strike on Russian industrial plant

The drone strike comes after Russia launched a record number of drones at Ukraine in June

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2 w. ago Ukrainian drone strikes a Russian plant after record Russian drone attacks in June

Officials say a Ukrainian drone has struck an industrial plant deep inside Russia, injuring several people and causing a fire

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2 w. ago Mass stabbing incident as knifeman leaves one dead and three injured at company building

A 21-year-old 'German citizen' has been arrested at the scene of a horrifying workplace incident that saw a woman stabbed in the neck and three others seriously injured

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2 w. ago Scottish firefighters tackle wildfires for third day as risk to life grows

Dealing with very serious blazes means fire and rescue service has limited ability to respond to other emergenciesFirefighters battled wildfires in the Scottish Highlands for a third day on Monday in a situation the first minister has called “extremely serious”.The Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA), which has helped tackle the blazes, warned the fires are “becoming a danger to human life” that are leaving “stretched” firefighters unable to attend other incidents. Continue reading...

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