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🔮 Russian barrage hits Kyiv hours after Zelensky warns of impending attack
Two killed in residential neighbourhood fire as air raid alerts wail across capital
A missile attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv killed two people on Wednesday, the mayor said, after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of “massive strikes” heading towards the city.
🔮 Israel marks 3 years since October 7 attack that sparked war in Gaza
Sombre tributes take place as political debate intensifies weeks before Israel’s national vote
Israel marked the third anniversary of Hamas’ October 7 attack on Wednesday with silent tributes, new strikes on Gaza and intense political debate, weeks before elections in which the country’s deadliest day will be front and centre.
🔮 Trump says will speak to Putin on plague, after death of Russian lab tech
Russian authorities denied that they were imposing anti-plague measures and played down reports of the incident in Siberia
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he would speak very soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the reported plague death of a laboratory technician, as Washington pressured Moscow for transparency.
🔮 The United States signed a security pact with Denmark and Greenland in late September that will allow Washington to establish two new military bases there, drawing the autonomous Danish territory further into US orbit.
🔮 Hasan’s execution for the attack at Fort Hood in Texas – which also wounded more than two dozen people – will be the first carried out by the US military since 1961.
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth “has recommended – and President Donald J. Trump has approved – death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a post on X.
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🔮 Eyeing a return to power, Parti Quebecois promises to hold an independence referendum in Canada’s French-speaking region if elected
Quebec separatists eyed a return to power in Canada’s majority French-speaking province on Monday in an election that could test Prime Minister Mark Carney’s message of national unity to confront the United States.
🔮 The news outlet People of Baikal, citing unnamed sources close to the regional security services, said she may have contracted pneumonic plague from a broken test tube.
🔮 ‘If our enemies again choose the path of military confrontation, our response will be stronger than before,’ said Iran’s foreign minister
🔮 Hundreds of schools to close on Monday as education protests rock France
Education Minister Edouard Geffray said the closures were chiefly a security precaution ahead of large-scale protests planned for Tuesday
Up to 500 schools across France will be totally or partly closed on Monday because of a wave of pupil protests that has shaken the country, the education minister said.
🔮 According to the motion, Zionism would be “treated as any other form of racism” and the party supports the establishment of a “single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine”.
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