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Russia conducted extensive missile strikes on Kyiv overnight, resulting in at least four deaths and 56 injuries, according to local officials. The assault, which involved nuclear-capable Oreshnik missiles, targeted various districts and damaged residential buildings and schools, prompting declarations of a continued threat in the capital.
Specialist LKA units in Berlin’s Pankow district discovered 59 unexploded Second World War shells during a routine walk. The find underscores ongoing risks associated with remnants of wartime ordnance in urban areas. Authorities are assessing the situation for safety and proper disposal protocols.
The Terra dei Fuochi, a region in southern Italy, faces severe environmental damage due to illegal waste disposal practices. The area has been significantly compromised by the burying and burning of refuse, raising urgent concerns about public health and ecological impact.
Her partner has been missing since her body was found.
Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth were told they can’t take their daughter to an Italian hospital.
At least one person has died and more than a million households were left without electricity in France on Thursday morning as Storm Ciaran struck western Europe overnight, bringing some of the highest wind speeds the region has witnessed in decades.
Much of northwestern Europe went on high alert Wednesday as a storm dubbed Ciaran threatened to bring gale force winds and extreme rainfall to the region. Three French departments — Finistere, Cotes-d’Armor and Manche — will be placed on red storm alert, the highest level, at midnight (2300 GMT), national weather agency Meteo-France said. Meanwhile thirty other departments including Paris and its surrounding regions are placed on orange alert.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday vowed a “merciless fight” against surging anti-Semitism after residents of the French capital discovered anti-Jewish graffiti on buildings in several districts. Paris prosecutors have launched a probe into the incident as a possible hate crime. “The Israel-Hamas conflict is clearly being imported into France,” representative council of French Jewish institutions Robert Ejnes said.
France has placed three departments in western France on red alert as Storm Ciaran is expected to hit the country’s northwest on Wednesday evening and warned residents in the departments concerned to avoid any travel overnight.
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