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Russia can counter US missile deployments in Europe, Kremlin says

Russia can counter US missile deployments in Europe, Kremlin says
European countries would be putting themselves at risk if they accept deployments of long-range U.S. missiles, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a video published on Saturday. (AFP/File)
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Updated 13 July 2024
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Russia can counter US missile deployments in Europe, Kremlin says

Russia can counter US missile deployments in Europe, Kremlin says
  • Peskov noted that throughout the Cold War, American missiles based in Europe were aimed at Russia
Updated 13 July 2024
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MOSCOW: European countries would be putting themselves at risk if they accept deployments of long-range US missiles, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a video published on Saturday.
Asked by Russian state TV reporter Pavel Zarubin about the possibility of the United States deploying hypersonic missiles to Europe, Peskov said: “We have enough potential to deter these missiles. But the capitals of these (European) states are potential victims.”
Peskov noted that throughout the Cold War, American missiles based in Europe were aimed at Russia, with Russian missiles aimed at Europe in return, making the continent’s countries the chief victim of any potential conflict.
He said: “Europe is now coming apart at the seams. This is not the best time for Europe. Therefore, in one way or another, history will repeat itself.”

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Ukraine says Russia launched 67 drones in overnight attack

Ukraine says Russia launched 67 drones in overnight attack
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Ukraine says Russia launched 67 drones in overnight attack

Ukraine says Russia launched 67 drones in overnight attack
  • Air defense units were scrambled into action in 11 regions across Ukraine
  • Drone debris was found next to the parliament building in the capital Kyiv
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KYIV: Ukraine’s air force said on Saturday Russia launched a total of 67 long-range Shahed drones in a mass overnight attack, 58 of which it was able to shoot down.
The air force said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app that air defense units were scrambled into action in 11 regions across Ukraine.
Drone debris was found next to the parliament building in the capital Kyiv, the legislature said in a separate statement it posted on its official Telegram page along with several photographs.
It is rare for a Russian missile or drone to get so far into central Kyiv, as the city is protected by a network of Soviet-era and Western-donated air defense systems.
The hilltop government quarter in the city center is perhaps the best-defended site in Ukraine, as it also houses the offices of the president, cabinet and the central bank.
The pictures on Telegram showed at least four pieces of debris scattered on the ground near the parliament building. One piece lay at the foot of the steps to the building’s main entrance, while another hunk of metal looked riddled with shrapnel.
Reuters correspondents in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, heard a series of explosions shortly after 3 a.m. on Saturday, some of which resounded loudly around the city center, waking up its residents.
Since the start of its invasion in February 2022, Moscow has launched thousands of missiles and Shahed drones into Ukraine.
The Iranian-designed drone has been used by Russia since September 2022 as a cheap, more expendable alternative to missiles, which are expensive and harder to manufacture.
The propeller-powered Shahed flies at less than 200km per hour (125 miles per hour) but can be tricky for conventional air defense systems to track because it flies low and emits far less heat than a missile.
Kyiv’s air force said the drones were launched from two border regions in Russia as well as from the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea.

Zelensky meets Meloni in Italy, presses for more arms

Zelensky meets Meloni in Italy, presses for more arms
Updated 07 September 2024
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Zelensky meets Meloni in Italy, presses for more arms

Zelensky meets Meloni in Italy, presses for more arms
  • The pair met in Cernobbio, northern Italy, on the margins of the European House-Ambrosetti forum
  • Italy has strongly supported Ukraine and has sent weapons to help it defend itself against Russian forces
Updated 07 September 2024
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CERNOBBIO, Italy: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Saturday, her office said, as he presses allies for more weapons in his country’s fight against Russia.
The pair met in Cernobbio, northern Italy, on the margins of the European House-Ambrosetti forum, where Zelensky spoke on Friday and Meloni was due to speak on Saturday.
Italy has strongly supported Ukraine and has sent weapons to help it defend itself against Russian forces, while insisting that these must only be used on Ukrainian soil.
Before heading to Italy, Zelensky had on Friday pressed his case to allies meeting at the US Ramstein Air Base in Germany, where Washington unveiled $250 million in new military aid for Ukraine.
He also met German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The gatherings came as Moscow’s forces advance in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on Thursday that capturing the region was his “primary objective” in the conflict, which has dragged on for two and a half years.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban — who upset his European Union counterparts and Zelensky by meeting Putin in Moscow in July — is also attending the three-day Italian forum.
Zelensky rejected Orban’s calls at Cernobbio for a ceasefire, saying that Putin had never respected earlier accords.

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Super Typhoon Yagi hits Vietnam after casualties in China’s Hainan

Super Typhoon Yagi hits Vietnam after casualties in China’s Hainan
Updated 07 September 2024
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Super Typhoon Yagi hits Vietnam after casualties in China’s Hainan

Super Typhoon Yagi hits Vietnam after casualties in China’s Hainan
  • Yagi, the world’s second-most powerful tropical cyclone in 2024, has already killed at least 16 people in the Philippines
  • It tore through China’s southern island of Hainan where it reportedly killed two people and injured dozens
Updated 07 September 2024
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HANOI/HAIPHONG/BEIJING: Super Typhoon Yagi, Asia’s most powerful storm this year, made landfall in northern Vietnam on Saturday, the meteorological agency said, after tearing through China’s southern island of Hainan where it reportedly killed two people and injured dozens.

Yagi, the world’s second-most powerful tropical cyclone in 2024, has already killed at least 16 people in the Philippines, having formed east of the archipelago earlier in the week.

As it hit island districts of north Vietnam around 1300 local time (0600 GMT) on Saturday, it generated winds of up to 160 kph (99 mph) near its center, having lost power from its peak of 234 kph (145 mph) in Hainan a day earlier.

Vietnam’s coastal city of Haiphong, an industrial hub with a population of 2 million that hosts factories from foreign multinationals and local carmaker VinFast, is so far among the hardest hit by the winds.

Parts of the city experienced power outages on Saturday, authorities said.

The wind smashed buildings’ glass windows and broke tree branches, according to a Reuters witness. City streets were deserted as citizens heeded authorities’ calls to stay indoors.

Earlier in Hainan, which has a population of more than 10 million, the storm knocked down trees, flooded roads and cut power to more than 800,000 homes.

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Vietnam evacuated nearly 50,000 people from coastal towns and deployed 450,000 military personnel, the government said.

It also suspended operations for several hours at four airports on Saturday, including Hanoi’s Noi Bai, the busiest in the north, canceling more than 300 flights.

High schools were also closed in 12 northern provinces, including in the capital Hanoi.

Typhoons are becoming stronger, fueled by warmer oceans, amid climate change, scientists say. Last week, Typhoon Shanshan slammed into southwestern Japan, the strongest storm to hit the country in decades.

Yagi is named after the Japanese word for goat and the constellation of Capricornus.

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Without astronauts, Boeing’s Starliner returns to Earth

Without astronauts, Boeing’s Starliner returns to Earth
Updated 07 September 2024
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Without astronauts, Boeing’s Starliner returns to Earth

Without astronauts, Boeing’s Starliner returns to Earth
  • NASA astronauts Wilmore and Williams to return on SpaceX vehicle in February 2025
  • Boeing’s Starliner program faces $1.6 billion in cost overruns since 2016
Updated 07 September 2024
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WASHINGTON: Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft landed uncrewed in a New Mexico desert late on Friday, capping a three-month test mission hobbled by technical issues that forced the astronauts it had flown to the International Space Station to remain there until next year.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who became the first crew to fly Starliner in June, remained on the ISS as Starliner autonomously undocked at 6:04 p.m. ET (2204 GMT) on Friday, beginning a six-hour trek to Earth using maneuvering thrusters that NASA last month deemed too risky for a crew.
Starliner returned to Earth seemingly without a hitch, a NASA live stream showed, nailing the critical final phase of its mission.
The spacecraft reentered Earth’s atmosphere at around 11 p.m. ET at orbital speeds of roughly 17,000 miles (27,400 km) per hour. About 45 minutes later, it deployed a series of parachutes to slow its descent and inflated a set of airbags moments before touching down at the White Sands Space Harbor, an arid desert in New Mexico.
Though the mission was intended to be a final test flight before NASA certifies Starliner for routine missions, the agency’s decision last month to keep astronauts off the capsule over safety concerns threw the spacecraft’s certification path into uncertainty, despite the clean return Boeing executed.
Wilmore and Williams, stocked with extra food and supplies on the ISS, will return to Earth on a SpaceX vehicle in February 2025. What was initially supposed to be an eight-day test has turned into an eight-month mission for the crew.
The ISS, a football field-sized science lab some 250 miles (402 km) in space, has seven other astronauts on board who arrived at different times on other spacecraft, including a Russian Soyuz capsule. Wilmore and Williams are expected to continue doing science experiments with their crewmates.
Five of Starliner’s 28 maneuvering thrusters failed with Wilmore and Williams on board during their approach to the ISS in June, while the same propulsion system sprang several leaks of helium, which is used to pressurize the thrusters.
Despite successfully docking on June 6, the failures set off a monthslong investigation by Boeing — with some help from NASA — that has cost the company $125 million, bringing total cost overruns on the Starliner program just above $1.6 billion since 2016, according to a Reuters analysis of securities filings.
Boeing’s Starliner woes have persisted since the spacecraft failed a 2019 test trip to the ISS without a crew. Starliner did a re-do mission in 2022 and largely succeeded, though some of its thrusters malfunctioned.
The aerospace giant’s Starliner woes represent the latest struggle that call into question Boeing’s future in space, a domain it had dominated for decades until Elon Musk’s SpaceX began offering cheaper launches for satellites and astronauts and reshaped the way NASA works with private cFompanies.
Boeing will recover the Starliner capsule after its touchdown and continue its investigation into why the thrusters failed in space.
But the section that housed Starliner’s thrusters — the “service module” trunk that provides in-space maneuvering capabilities — detached from the capsule as designed just before it plunged into Earth’s atmosphere.
The service module bearing the faulty thrusters burned up in the atmosphere as planned, meaning Boeing will rely on simulated tests to figure out what went wrong with the hardware in space.

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Schools closed in restive Indian state after rocket attack

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Updated 07 September 2024
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Schools closed in restive Indian state after rocket attack

Schools closed in restive Indian state after rocket attack
  • The day before, a rebel group had fired rockets in the state’s Bishnupur district
  • A 78-year-old man was killed in the barrage and six people were wounded
Updated 07 September 2024
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MUMBAI: Schools were ordered shut from Saturday in the restive Indian state of Manipur after a rocket attack by insurgents killed a civilian and wounded six others.
Fighting broke out in the northeastern state more than a year ago between the predominantly Hindu Meitei majority and the mainly Christian Kuki community.
The conflict has simmered since then, splitting previously cohabitating communities along ethnic lines.
A local government notice said all schools in the state would be closed on Saturday, when classes are usually held, to protect the “safety of the students and teachers.”
The day before, a rebel group had fired rockets in the state’s Bishnupur district, an attack that local police attributed to “Kuki militants.”
A police statement said a 78-year-old man was killed in the barrage and six people were wounded.
Officers responding to the attack “were fired upon by suspected Kuki militants but the police team retaliated robustly and repelled the attack,” the statement said.
Local media reports said the elderly man was killed when a rocket hit the residence of the late Mairenbam Koireng Singh, a former chief minister of Manipur.
The Indian Express newspaper, citing an unnamed security source, said that the rockets appeared to be “improvised projectiles” made using “galvanized iron pipes attached to explosives.”
Friday’s attack came days after insurgents used drones to drop explosives in what police called a “significant escalation” of violence in the state.
A 31-year-old woman was killed and six people were wounded in that incident, which police described as an “unprecedented attack” by rebels.
Longstanding tensions between the Meitei and Kuki communities revolve around competition for land and public jobs, with rights activists accusing local leaders of exacerbating ethnic divisions for political gain.

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