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☆ Storm continues to sweep over the Nordics, causing landslides
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/4] A view shows damaged residential buildings in the aftermath of Storm Hans in Valdres, near Oslo, Norway August 8, 2023. NTB/Cornelius Poppe via REUTERSSTOCKHOLM, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Norwegian emergency services evacuated hundreds of people in various locations on Tuesday, the second day that heavy rains caused landslides, with the risk of more, as a storm sweeps over the Nordics. Strong winds, intense rain and landslides hit parts of the Nordic region, knocking out power lines, flooding villages and bringing public transport to a standstill in the worst-affected areas. The storm, which has been called "Hans," hit Sweden late on Sunday and reached Norway on Monday, with parts of Denmark and Finland also affected. In southern Norway, floods and landslides blocked roads and halted key train services.

Persons: Storm Hans, NTB, Cornelius Poppe, Hans, Marie Mannes, Leslie Adler Organizations: REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Valdres, Oslo, Norway, REUTERS STOCKHOLM, Nordic, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Hemsedal, Swedish

☆ San Francisco drives tech; will it drive away robot taxis?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Greg Bensinger | Thomson Reuters | Greg Bensinger Joined Reuters As A Technology Correspondent In Focusing On The World'S Largest Technology Companies. He Was Previously A Member Of The New York Times Editorial Board | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

[1/3] A Cruise self-driving car, which is owned by General Motors Corp, is seen outside the company?s headquarters in San Francisco where it does most of its testing, in California, U.S., September 26, 2018. Futuristic test vehicles from Cruise and Waymo are a common sight in some parts of San Francisco. The vote comes at a critical time for San Francisco, which is grappling with thousands of tech job losses, firms leaving the city, and COVID-era work-from-home policies that have contributed to a hollowed out downtown. loadingRamón Iglesias, another San Francisco resident, said that though he’d seen the videos and some erratic behavior from the cars, he supports the expansion and worries any further obstacles could drive tech companies away. “We have a very strong Luddite segment here in San Francisco and you see places like Las Vegas and Miami go out of their way to embrace tech,” said Iglesias, a data scientist.

Persons: Heather Somerville, Waymo, ”, Kyle Vogt, X, ” Cruise, San Francisco, Cruise, Julia Ilina, Mike Smith, Ramón Iglesias, he’d, Iglesias, “, London Breed, Greg Bensinger, Peter Henderson, Diane Craft Organizations: General Motors Corp, REUTERS, FRANCISCO, Motors, San, San Francisco County Transportation Authority, Cruise, California Public Utilities Commission, Las, Ford, Tesla, Francisco, FIRST, ”, London, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, California, U.S, Francisco, San, San Francisco County, State, dazzled, Dallas, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles

☆ Poland finds leak on one part of Druzhba oil pipeline from Russia to Europe
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

A view shows a leak detected in Druzhba oil pipeline as reported by Polish pipeline operator PERN, in Chodecz, Poland August 5, 2023, in this picture obtained from social media. The leak was detected near Chodecz, central Poland, on one of the two lines of the western section of the Druzhba through which crude oil reaches Germany, PERN said. Germany stopped buying Russian oil in January, but German media have reported that Kazakh oil was being imported through the line. The Druzhba oil pipeline is one of the world's largest and can carry 2 million barrels per day. Flows through the Druzhba pipeline have dropped sharply since Russia's invasion of Ukraine and pipeline infrastructure has been hit several times since in attacks that Moscow has blamed on Ukraine.

Persons: Anna Trzeciakowska, Grzegorz Jankowski, Vera Eckhert, Pavel Polityuk, Frances Kerry, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: REUTERS Companies, Firefighters, State Fire Services, TVN24, German Economy Ministry, Thomson Locations: Chodecz, Poland, WARSAW, Russia, Europe, Moscow, Ukraine, Germany, Wloclawek, Eastern, Central Europe, Belarus, Nord, Baltic

☆ Russia's planting mines everywhere, even cruelly hiding explosives in everyday items like fridges, toys, and children's books, Ukrainian military engineers say
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Russian soldiers who previously occupied Ukrainian territory left it littered with land mines. Moscow's troops hid explosives in every items like toys, fridges, and even children's books. For instance, they cruelly hide explosives in everyday household items like refrigerators, toys, and even children's books. Military sappers inspect an area for mines and non-exploded shells left after Russia's invasion in Kyiv Region, Ukraine April 21, 2022. REUTERS/Mykola TymchenkoUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned in April 2022 that Russian soldiers retreating in the north at the time had left mines everywhere, creating a "complete disaster."

Persons: it's, Mark Milley, sapper, Gleb Garanich, Oleksandr, Mykola Tymchenko, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Maksym Trykur, Trykur, That's, Europe's Organizations: Service, Joint Chiefs, Staff, Ukrainian Armed Forces, REUTERS, Ukraine's, Transport Service, State Emergency Service, Special Transport Service, Mining, Mines Locations: Ukrainian, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Ukraine, Russian, Izium, Kharkiv region, Kyiv, Kyiv Region, Udy, Kharkiv, Africa

☆ Ukraine attacks Russian navy base near Novorossiysk
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Aug 4 (Reuters) - Ukrainian sea drones attacked a Russian navy base near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, a major hub for Russian exports, early on Friday and were destroyed by Russian warships, Russia's defence ministry said. The attack prompted the Novorossiysk port to temporarily halt all ship movement, according to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium which operates an oil terminal there. Russian social media users reported hearing explosions and gunfire near Novorossiysk on Friday morning. Russia has also reported an attack by Ukrainian sea drones on its warships which were escorting a civilian vessel. Russian air defences downed 10 Ukrainian drones over Crimea on Friday morning and suppressed three more with electronic countermeasures, TASS cited the Russian defence ministry as saying.

Persons: Tom Hogue, Kim Coghill, Michael Perry Organizations: Caspian Pipeline Consortium, Caspian Pipeline, Astra, TASS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Novorossiysk, Russia, Ukrainian, Crimea

☆ China wants to limit teens to no more than two hours a day on their phones
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Simone Mccarthy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Children under eight would be able to use their phones for only 40 minutes a day, while those between eight and 16 would get an hour of screen time. “On the other hand, it’s easier for us parents to control our kids screen time,” she said. China has one of the world’s largest internet user bases, with roughly 1.07 billion people in the country of 1.4 billion having access to the web, according to the China Internet Network Information Center. The regulation could be useful to “help parents to supervise the children” and limit screen time. Impact on tech firmsThe new measures could present challenges for tech companies, which are typically held responsible for enforcing regulations.

Persons: ”, “, Kuaishou Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Cyberspace Administration, ”, Mobile, CNN, China Internet Network Information, Apple, Huawei Locations: Hong Kong, China, Beijing, China’s Zhejiang, China’s Zhuhai, Weibo, lockstep

☆ China wants to limit teens to using their phones for just an hour a day to fight rising 'internet addiction'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Those between the ages of eight and 16 would be limited to using them for just one hour a day. China could restrict teenagers to using their phones for just one hour a day, under draft rules proposed by the country's cyberspace regulator. The Cyberspace Administration of China announced potential guidelines on Wednesday that include limits seeking to prevent "the problem of minors' internet addiction." That would also prevent children from using their phones between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., except for education products and emergency services. The CAC's proposed rules are currently open for public consultation.

Persons: it's, Tencent Organizations: Cyberspace Administration, China Locations: China

☆ On Ukraine's landmine-strewn front, even the corpses can kill
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Vladyslav Smilianets | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/Viacheslav RatynskyiZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, Ukraine, Aug 3 (Reuters) - When they found the bodies of Russian troops at an abandoned position, something about the corpses looked wrong. "We lose one sapper every day, either wounded or dead. Even their own dead: "They know that our med-evac groups lift the wounded and the dead, under which they then find these explosives. "We had cases when five or six wounded people were brought in, and most of them turned out to be sappers. Ukraine's factories have tooled up to make equipment to help keep the sappers safer.

Persons: Volodymyr, it's, Oleksandr, Ihor Iefymenko, Vitalii Hnidyi, Peter Graff, Hugh Lawson Organizations: Armed Forces, REUTERS, PM, GO, Brigade, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Donetsk region, Soviet, Kharkiv, Canadian

REUTERS/Souleymane Ag Anara/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The United States ordered the evacuation of some staff and families from its embassy in Niger after military officers seized power there, the State Department said on Wednesday, even as the mission will remain open and senior leadership will continue working from there. "The United States remains committed to our relationship with the people of Niger and to Nigerien democracy. The State Department is advising Americans not to travel to Niger. There are about 1,100 U.S. troops in Niger, where the U.S. military operates from two bases. Washington evacuated all government personnel from the U.S. embassy in Khartoum and suspended operations there due to the security risks.

Persons: Matthew Miller, Miller, Idrees Ali, Daphne Psaledakis, Eric Beech, Lisa Shumaker, Alistair Bell, Chris Reese Organizations: REUTERS, United, State Department, Department of State, U.S, Embassy, Department, The State Department, Islamic, ., Rapid Support Forces, Reuters Graphics Reuters, Thomson Locations: Niamey, Niger, United States, Nigerien, U.S, France, Germany, Italy, al Qaeda, Islamic State, Sudan, . Washington, Khartoum

☆ Explosions, drone debris hit Kyiv, mayor, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/4] Rescuers work at a site of building damaged in the night by Russian drone strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv region, Ukraine August 2, 2023. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERSAug 2 (Reuters) - Anti-aircraft units worked to shoot down drones attacking the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early on Wednesday, with drone debris falling in three districts but causing no injuries, Mayor Vitali Klitschko and military officials said. Klitschko, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said that debris had fallen in the central Solomianskyi district and that a non-residential building had been damaged. Klitschko said that debris had also fallen in the Svyatoshyn district, further west, and that a tree had caught fire. Air raid alerts were lifted for the capital, the surrounding Kyiv region and most other parts of the country.

Persons: Vitali Klitschko, Klitschko, Serhiy Popko, Ron Popeski, Sandra Maler, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Press, State Emergency Service of, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Kyiv region, State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Handout, Kyiv, Solomianskyi, Svyatoshyn, Holosiivskyi

☆ Drones target Moscow, high-rise building hit
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"On the night of August 1st, an attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime with lethal drones on targets in Moscow and Moscow region was thwarted," the Defence Ministry said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app. Earlier, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said one of the drones targeting the capital had flown into the same tower at Moskva Citi that had been struck earlier in the week. "One flew into the same tower at the Moskva Citi complex hit previously. Moskva Citi was hit by a drone attacks last Sunday -- one of several such incidents which have caused limited damage but generated widespread unease. Ukraine rarely comments on incidents that take place on Russian territory in its war against Moscow, now in its 17th month.

Persons: Sergei Sobyanin, Sobyanin, Dmitry Peskov, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ron Popeski, Himani Sarkar, Michael Perry Organizations: Reuters, Defence Ministry, Moskva Citi, Tass, Moscow, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukrainian, Moscow, Kyiv, Moskva, Vnukovo, Russia, Ukraine

☆ A British Airways passenger was stuck in his seat for 3 hours after landing and had to be taken out of first class with a hoist
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A plus-sized passenger was stuck in his seat for three hours after the plane landed, per The Sun. He was in Seat 1A, which is typically reserved for British Airways Executive Club Gold card holders. A plus-sized British Airways passenger got stuck in a first-class seat after his flight landed in the UK from Nigeria early on Saturday morning, according to The Sun. According to Business Class Experts, a travel website, seats in British Airways First Class are nearly two-feet-wide. British Airways did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Organizations: British Airways Executive, Sun, Morning, British Airways, Murtala Muhammed International, London Heathrow Airport, Club, Business, British Airways First, CNN Locations: Nigeria, Lagos

☆ Alix Dorsainvil: What we know about the American nurse kidnapped with her child in Haiti
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Alisha Ebrahimji | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Before Alix Dorsainvil was kidnapped with her child in Haiti, the American nurse described Haitians as a “resilient people” who are “full of joy and life and love.”Her comments came in a video on the website of El Roi Haiti, the Christian humanitarian aid organization for which she works. Dorsainvil, the wife of El Roi Haiti Director Sandro Dorsainvil, and their child were reportedly abducted Thursday morning while serving in their community ministry on El Roi Haiti’s campus near the capital city Port-au-Prince, according to a statement from the non-profit. The same day, the US State Department ordered the departure of nonemergency government personnel from Haiti as the security situation in the country deteriorates. Dorsainvil, a nurse from New Hampshire, moved to Haiti after her husband invited her to the Haitian school to provide nursing care for the children, Dorsainvil explained in an undated video on the organization’s website. “Please pray for Alix Dorsainvil,” the school said.

Persons: Alix Dorsainvil, ”, Dorsainvil, El Roi, Sandro Dorsainvil, Sandro Dorsainvil’s alma, ” Dorsainvil, “, ” El, ” “ Alix, Jesus, Antoinette Hays Organizations: CNN, El Roi Haiti, US State Department, Authorities, United, School, State Department, U.S . Department of State, Department of State, U.S, Cornerstone Christian Academy, Regis College, ” Regis Locations: Haiti, El Roi Haiti, El, El Roi Haiti’s, Port, United States, Canada, United Nations, New Hampshire, Montana, ” El Roi Haiti, U.S, Wakefield, Weston , Massachusetts

Kyiv, Ukraine CNN —A day after Volodymyr Zelensky said war was “returning to Russia” with an attempted drone strike on Moscow, the Kremlin launched a deadly airstrike against the Ukraine president’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih. On Monday, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the Kremlin would intensify its attacks in response to Kyiv’s attempted drone strikes against Moscow the previous day that damaged a business and shopping development in the west of the capital. Shoigu and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov both said Ukraine’s attempted drone strikes on Moscow terrorist attacks were meant to deflect from a purported lack of success on the battlefield. No casualties were reported in the attempted Moscow drone strikes over the weekend. However, Russian bombardments in Ukraine have struck civilian homes, schools, hospitals, churches and power plants, killing thousands of bystanders in the process.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelensky, Zelensky, Natalia Balaba, “, Balaba, ”, Kryvyi, Oleksandr Vilkul, Sergei Shoigu, Kyiv’s, Ukraine “, ” Zelensky, Dmitry Peskov, Ukraine’s, –, ” Shoigu Organizations: Ukraine CNN, Kremlin, Ukraine president’s, Residents, Emergency Service of, Reuters, Russian Ministry of Defense, Moscow, Ukraine’s Air Force, Russian Federation Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, Russia, Moscow, Kryvyi, Ukrainian, Emergency Service of Ukraine, Rih, Shoigu

☆ Girl and her mother killed in Russian strikes as Ukraine reports frontline progress
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Pavel Polityuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Two more civilians were reported killed in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, now on the front line after being recaptured from Russian forces in November. [1/5]A firefighter works at a site of an apartment building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine July 31, 2023. ANTI-DRONE DEFENCESRussian forces have levelled residential areas across eastern and southern Ukraine since they invaded more than 17 months ago. Ukraine rarely comments on strikes on Russian territory, which have recently begun to include drone attacks on Moscow. Russia's military said it had halted Ukrainian forces in the region.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy's, Hanna Maliar, Sergei Shoigu, Zelenskiy, Serhiy Lysak, Oleksandr Vilkul, Oleksandr Prokudin, Ukraine's, Dmitry Peskov, Anna Pruchnicka, Ron Popeski, Nick Starkov, Tom Balmforth, Philippa Fletcher, Kevin Liffey Organizations: Telegram, Russian, Press, State Emergency Service of, REUTERS, European Union, NATO, Kremlin, Ukrainian, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, KYIV, Russian, Kryvyi Rih, Kryvyi, Ukrainian, Kherson, State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Handout, Donetsk, Donetsk city, Russia, Moscow, denazify, Sunday

☆ Kremlin seeks more info about talks in Saudi, Ukraine says Moscow unwelcome
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The meeting was first reported last Saturday in the Wall Street Journal, which said Saudi Arabia would invite Western states, Ukraine and major developing countries to talks focusing on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's peace plan. The paper said Kyiv and Western countries hoped that the talks could lead to international backing for peace terms favouring Ukraine. Peskov, however, also restated Moscow's position that it currently saw no grounds for peace talks with Kyiv. "If there's acceptance from both Ukraine and Russia to look for solutions to achieve peace, we'll participate," he told reporters in Mexico City. Andriy Yermak, Zelenskiy's chief of staff, said Ukraine would be "boundlessly happy if West, East, South and North work in this format towards renewing a system of world security".

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy's, Dmitry Peskov, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado, we'll, Andriy Yermak, Yermak, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Vladimir Putin, Gareth Jones, Ron Popeski, Stephen Coates Organizations: Press, State Emergency Service of, REUTERS, Street, Ukraine, Kyiv, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Kryvyi Rih, State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Handout, REUTERS MOSCOW, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Kyiv, Western, Mexico City, East, South, Saudi

☆ Drones hit Ukraine's Kharkiv, injuring one and damaging dormitory, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Aug 1 (Reuters) - Officials in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, said on Tuesday that drones hit populated areas of the city and one drone destroyed two floors of a college dormitory. The chief of police in Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine, Volodymyr Tymoshko, said there were two night-time strikes -- one on the college and one on the city centre. The college building was empty at the time of the strike. "One of the drones destroyed two floors of a dormitory," Terekhov wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Suspilne said the half the college building was destroyed.

Persons: Volodymyr Tymoshko, Suspilne, Ihor Terekhov, Terekhov, Ron Popeski, Leslie Adler Organizations: Kharkiv, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Kharkiv, Ukraine's, Ukraine

☆ Ukraine drones hit Moscow, injuring at least one and suspending flights: Russian state media
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Police officers block off an area around a damaged office block of the Moscow International Business Center (Moskva City) following a reported drone attack in Moscow on July 30, 2023. Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow early on Sunday, injuring one, damaging buildings and suspending flights at Vnukovo airport, TASS news agency said, citing officials. One person was injured as a result of a blast in a building, TASS said, citing emergency services. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said earlier the facades of two office buildings had been slightly damaged but that there were no casualties, TASS reported. Russia said on Monday it would retaliate harshly against Ukraine after two drones damaged buildings in Moscow, with one strike close to the building where the military holds briefings on what Russia calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine.

Persons: Sergei Sobyanin, Mykhailo Fedorov Organizations: Moscow International Business, TASS, Russia's Defence Ministry, Ukraine, Russia Locations: Moskva City, Moscow, Vnukovo, Ukrainian, Odintsovo, Ukraine, Russia

[1/3] Emergencies services members gather outside the damaged office building in the Moscow City following a reported Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow, Russia, July 30, 2023. REUTERS/StringerSummary Russia accuses Ukraine of new drone attack on MoscowSays all three drones shot down or forced to crashNobody hurt, minor damage to two buildings - mayorMOSCOW, July 30 (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry said it had brought down three Ukrainian drones early on Sunday that had been trying to attack Moscow. The incident followed what Russia said was a similar Ukrainian attempt to attack Moscow with two drones last Monday, one of which was brought down close to the headquarters of the defence ministry. The Defence Ministry said two drones had crashed in the Moskva-Citi district after being brought down using radio-electronic equipment. GLASS AND DEBRISA young woman who gave her name only as Liya described the Moscow incident.

Persons: Stringer, Nobody, Sergei Sobyanin, Mykhailo Fedorov, Monday's, Liya, Andrew Osborn, Rishabh, William Mallard, Lincoln, Frances Kerry Organizations: REUTERS, Russia's Defence Ministry, Citi, Ukraine, TASS, The Defence Ministry, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Moscow, Ukrainian, Russia, Ukraine, MOSCOW, Moskva, Kyiv, Moscow's Vnukovo, Crimea, Bengaluru

CNN —Three drones were intercepted in “Moscow City” in an attempted attack on Sunday on the business and shopping development in the west of the Russian capital, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said. Russian state news agency TASS reported the attack, attributing it to security sources. Second drone attack in a weekSunday’s drone attack was the second reported in Moscow in the past week. Ukrainian forces carried out drone strikes on July 24, Ukrainian officials confirmed with CNN, adding that security forces were responsible for the strike. Russian officials said it was a “terrorist attack of the Kiev regime.”Ukrainian Minister Mykhailo Fedorov whose Digital Transformation Ministry oversees the country’s “Army of Drones” procurement plan, said there would be more strikes to come.

Persons: “, ”, Yurii Malashko, Mykhailo Fedorov, Stringer, Vladimir Putin, Putin Organizations: CNN, ”, Russia’s Ministry of Defense, Defense Ministry, Russia’s Defense Ministry, TASS, Interior Ministry, Transformation Ministry, “ Army, Drones Locations: “ Moscow, Russia’s, Odintsovo, Moscow, Moscow City, Russia, Crimea, Ukraine, Russian, Ukrainian, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Kiev, Russian Africa, St . Petersburg

☆ Russian missile hits apartments, security service building in Dnipro -Zelenskiy
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/4] Firefighters work at a site of an administrative building damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine July 28, 2023. Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office via Facebook/Handout via REUTERSJuly 28 (Reuters) - A Russian missile strike hit a residential complex and a building of Ukraine's security service in the central city of Dnipro on Thursday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Multi-storey apartment building and a building of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) hit," Zelenskiy wrote on the Telegram messaging app. "Again, Russian missile terror." It was not clear how many missiles were involved or whether the security building was close to the apartments.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ihor Klymenko, Zelenskiy, Ron Popeski, Nick Starkov, Jonathan Oatis, Grant McCool Organizations: Prosecutor's Office, Facebook, REUTERS, Interior, Ukrainian Security Service, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk

☆ Russian land mines pose a persistent and deadly threat in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +16 min

What lies beneath Land mines left by Russian forces in Ukraine pose a deadly threat to Kyiv's military - and civilians in liberated territory. On average, anti-vehicle mines caused more incidents with multiple fatalities than anti-personnel mines did. GICHD has documented at least 12 types of anti-personnel mines and nine types of anti-vehicle mines in use in Ukraine. Formerly occupied towns in Kyiv; Sumy, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv oblasts all saw a large number of mines, especially anti-personnel mines, left in place, Mathewson said. Ukraine is a signatory to the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, and had been destroying its anti-personnel mines when the war began.

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☆ Greek wildfires die down after burning for nearly two weeks
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Alexandros AvramidisATHENS, July 28 (Reuters) - Wildfires in Greece abated on Friday after burning for nearly two weeks but emergency services worked to prevent new flare-ups in the central part of the country, where people had fled massive explosions at an ammunition depot the day before. In the hard-hit area of Magnesia, wildfires reached an air force ammunition depot close to the coastal town of Nea Aghialos on Thursday. Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias said on Friday he had ordered an investigation into the incident. The labour ministry urged employers in an industrial zone of Volos to suspend operations for a second day on Friday. But teams operated at several sites for an 11th day in an effort to fully tame all the fronts.

Persons: Alexandros Avramidis ATHENS, Dina Angeli, Nikos Dendias, Firefighters, Ioannis Artopoios, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Angeliki Koutantou, Alexandros Avramidis, Stamos Prousalis, Angeliki, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: REUTERS, Fighter, Reuters, Greek Defence, Thomson Locations: Volos, Greece, Magnesia, Nea Aghialos, Aghialos, Rhodes

☆ Wildfire on Spain's Gran Canaria island 'stabilised' - emergency services
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain, July 27 (Reuters) - Firefighters have "stabilised" a wildfire that ravaged 400 hectares of woodland in the centre of the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, local emergency services chief Federico Grillo said on Thursday. Three roads were closed off while emergency services deployed nine aircraft and 250 firefighters to contain the blaze. "Unfortunately, a house has burned down on Pico de las Nieves," Grillo said on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Earlier in July, 4,000 people were evacuated from their homes on the island of La Palma, near Gran Canaria, as a forest fire burned out of control while countries across Europe have struggled to cope with wildfires amidst a heatwave. Reporting by Corina Pons; Editing by David Latona and Sharon SingletonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Opinion: Putin’s new target is a cultural and economic jewel
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Opinion Michael Bociurkiw | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Emergency service personnel clear a destroyed building near the Odesa Port after a Russian attack on Thursday, July 20. Late last week, Russian cruise missiles blasted the port and an overlooking bluff where the imposing Chinese consulate is located. The city in southern Ukraine is a key cultural center, and has long links with Russia. The attacks also coincide with Russia pulling out of the Black Sea grain deal that was keeping Ukrainian grain flowing to the world. Consider that East Africa, where the World Food Program says millions of people are experiencing unprecedented levels of food insecurity, is hugely dependent on Ukrainian grain.

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