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Russia says destroyed 125 Ukrainian drones

Russia says destroyed 125 Ukrainian drones
A view of an apartment building hit by a Russian air strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine September 29, 2024. (REUTERS)
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Updated 29 September 2024
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Russia says destroyed 125 Ukrainian drones

Russia says destroyed 125 Ukrainian drones
Updated 29 September 2024
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Moscow: Russia downed 125 Ukrainian drones over its territory overnight, the defense ministry said Sunday, with regional governors reporting some damage but no casualties from the attack.
“125 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs were destroyed and intercepted by air defense systems on duty,” the ministry said on Telegram.
Sixty-seven were destroyed over Volgograd region in southern Russia, where governor Andrey Bocharov said falling debris from the drones sparked grass fires but no casualties or damage.
Another 17 were downed over Belgorod region and 17 over Voronezh region, where governor Aleksandr Gusev said several fell on Voronezh city and its suburbs causing fires in two residential buildings but no casualties.
Another 18 drones were destroyed over Rostov region where governor Vasily Golubev said on Telegram: “According to operational information, there are no casualties or damage on the ground.”
Single drones were intercepted over the Bryansk and Kursk regions and Krasnodar, which neighbors Crimea, and three over the waters of the Sea of Azov, the defense ministry said.
Russia has recently announced shooting down Ukrainian drones almost daily in response to what Kyiv says are retaliatory strikes for Russian attacks during its offensive launched in February 2022.

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Activists protest escalating Mideast crisis outside UK base in Cyprus

Activists protest escalating Mideast crisis outside UK base in Cyprus
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Activists protest escalating Mideast crisis outside UK base in Cyprus

Activists protest escalating Mideast crisis outside UK base in Cyprus
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AKROTIRI, Cyprus: Pro-Palestinian campaigners protested at the gates of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus on Sunday, accusing Britain of offering tacit support to Israel’s ongoing operations in Gaza and elsewhere.
Chanting “Out with the bases of death” a couple of hundred people holding Palestinian and Cypriot flags peacefully protested outside the locked gates of the facility, Britain’s largest in the Middle East.
Britain last week sent additional troops to Cyprus to be in position to assist any potential evacuation of nationals trapped in Lebanon, which is reeling from a barrage of Israeli air strikes which culminated in the killing of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday evening.
The UK has two military bases on Cyprus, a former British colony. RAF Akrotiri has been used in the past as a staging point for airstrikes against Houthi forces in Yemen in retaliation for attacks on Red Sea shipping that the Iran-backed group says is a response to the war in Gaza.
“This is an issue of independence and sovereignty for Cyprus,” said Peter Iosif, a member of the Cyprus Peace Council, an organizer of Sunday’s demonstration. “At this time it becomes even more obvious how the British bases are acting against the will of the Cyprus people,” he said.
In response to the protests, a British bases spokesperson said: “No RAF flights have transported lethal cargo to the Israeli Defense Forces.”
“In addition, it is standard practice for the UK Ministry of Defense to routinely authorize requests for (a) limited number of allies and partners to access the UK’s air bases. Such activity must be in line with UK policy for evacuation and humanitarian purposes only.”

UK Conservatives assemble to find a new leader and future direction

UK Conservatives assemble to find a new leader and future direction
Updated 27 min 42 sec ago
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UK Conservatives assemble to find a new leader and future direction

UK Conservatives assemble to find a new leader and future direction
Updated 27 min 42 sec ago
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LONDON: Britain's opposition Conservatives gather for an annual conference on Sunday, licking their wounds from a historic election defeat and locked in battle over the party's future direction.
The four-day meeting in Birmingham, central England, comes three months after the Tories were ousted from power by Labour, with Keir Starmer taking over as prime minister.
It is the Conservatives' first conference in opposition since 2009 -- a year before David Cameron set them on their way to 14 years of consecutive but chaotic rule, marked by austerity, Brexit, the Covid pandemic and in-fighting.
The get-together will see four candidates audition in front of parliamentary colleagues and grassroots members as they bid to replace ex-premier Rishi Sunak as the next Tory leader.
Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat will all make pitches from the stage in the main hall at the International Convention Centre in Britain's second-largest city.
Setting out his stall, frontrunner and former immigration minister Jenrick pledged a cap "cast in iron" on immigration.
"The age of mass migration must end. It's placing immense pressure on housing, on public services and on community cohesion. You can't integrate 1.2 million people into a small country each year," he told Sky News' Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips.
The subject was a key issue at the July general election when the Conservatives lost critical votes to Nigel Farage's anti-immigration Reform UK party.
Jenrick's nearest rival, Badenoch said immigration was something the country needed to "get right".
"Numbers matter... culture matters. If we want to have a well-integrated society we need to make sure that we have a shared culture and a shared identity," she told Sky.
Conservative MPs will vote next week to determine the final two candidates. Party members will then select the winner in a ballot that closes at the end of October.
"It's essentially going to be a talent parade," Robert Ford, politics professor at the University of Manchester, told AFP.
Britain's new opposition leader -- and the person tasked with reuniting the party before the next elections -- will be announced on Saturday November 2.
Whoever is chosen will determine whether the party tacks further to the right or seeks to regain the centre ground following the Conservatives' worst-ever general election result on July 4.
Labour won a whopping 174-seat majority in the 650-seat UK parliament. The Tories lost 251 seats to return just 121 MPs, the lowest number in their history.
It capped a stunning downfall from the previous election in 2019 when the Tories won an 80-seat majority under Boris Johnson, mainly on a promise to "get Brexit done".


The party unravelled in spectacular fashion. Several scandals, not least Downing Street staff partying during coronavirus lockdowns, forced Johnson from office.
His successor, Liz Truss, then lasted just 49 days due to her mini-budget which tanked the pound and spooked markets.
Sunak, brought in to steady the ship, was unable to reverse the slide and his 20 months in office were marred by factional infighting.
After the election, he announced he would step down once a successor had been chosen.
The party faces a dilemma: should it focus on winning back voters who defected to Nigel Farage's hard-right Reform UK party, or aim to regain the support of those who switched to the centrist Liberal Democrats?
The party as a whole has drifted rightwards in recent years but Badenoch and Jenrick are seen as the more right-wing of the candidates, with Cleverly and Tugendhat nearer the centre.
"It's true that elections tend to be won in the centre ground, unless one of the other parties abandons it completely," said Tim Bale, politics professor at Queen Mary University of London.
"Now that Labour seem to be absolutely determined to hog it, it would seem that the Conservatives probably have to fight on that territory," he told AFP.
The conference ends on Wednesday.

11 wounded in southern Ukraine in Russian strikes

11 wounded in southern Ukraine in Russian strikes
Updated 29 September 2024
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11 wounded in southern Ukraine in Russian strikes

11 wounded in southern Ukraine in Russian strikes
Updated 29 September 2024
AFP
KYIV: At least 11 people were wounded on Sunday in a series of Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine, emergency services announced.
The regional capital was hit by several “massive aerial strikes” at dawn, Ukrainian emergency services said in a statement.
“A building and six houses in different city neighborhoods suffered a lot of destruction,” said the statement, adding that 42 members of the emergency services were helping those potentially trapped under the rubble.
“According to preliminary information, the number of wounded people has risen to 11,” said the emergency services, adding that rescue operations had ended.
A woman dragged from the rubble was taken to hospital.
Regional governor Ivan Fedorov had earlier said that six people were wounded.
He said that Zaporizhzhia was hit by 10 Russian strikes that destroyed “one multi-story building and some houses.”
Andriy Yermak, the head of the office of the president, hit out in a social media post at an attempt to “terrorize” the civilian population.
Yermak also reiterated his called on Western allies to supply more weapons to intercept Russian missiles and apply more economic sanctions against Moscow.
Russia annexed the Zaporizhzhia region in 2022, but the main city of the same name remains under Kyiv’s control.

Search renews for missing migrants after nine die off Spain's Canary Islands

Search renews for missing migrants after nine die off Spain's Canary Islands
Updated 29 September 2024
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Search renews for missing migrants after nine die off Spain's Canary Islands

Search renews for missing migrants after nine die off Spain's Canary Islands
  • Among the dead was a child aged between 12-15
Updated 29 September 2024
Reuters

EL HIERRO: Rescue crews on Sunday renewed the search for about 48 migrants missing since their boat capsized near the Spanish island of El Hierro in what threatens to be the deadliest such incident in 30 years of crossings from Africa to the Canary Islands.
Nine people, one of them a child, have been confirmed as dead after their boat sank in the early hours of Saturday morning, emergency and rescue services said.
Rescuers were able to pick up 27 of 84 migrants who were trying to reach the Spanish coast.
A Reuters journalist said one coastguard vessel had left the island of El Hierro on Sunday to renew the search. More rescue craft are expected to follow, along with air support.
Spanish authorities said the migrants were from Mali, Mauritania and Senegal.
The emergency services received a call on Saturday shortly after midnight from the boat, which was located around four miles east of El Hierro. It sank during the rescue, they said.
"They had been at sea for at least two days without food and it seems there was a panic before the boat capsized," Anselmo Pestana, the Spanish government representative in the Canary Islands, told reporters on Saturday.
Wind and poor visibility made the rescue extremely difficult, he added.
Among the dead was a child aged between 12-15, according to the NGO Walking Borders, which helps migrants.
Three other boats reached the Canary Islands during the night, carrying 208 migrants.
Calm seas and gentle winds associated with late summer in the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa have prompted a renewed surge of migrants, local authorities said this month.
The route from Africa to the islands has seen a 154% surge in migrants this year, with 21,620 migrants crossing in the first seven months, data from the European Union's border agency Frontex showed.
In some 30 years of migrant crossings to the islands the deadliest shipwreck recorded to date occurred in 2009 off the island of Lanzarote when 25 people died.

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Indonesia mine landslide toll up to 13 as search ends

Indonesia mine landslide toll up to 13 as search ends
Updated 29 September 2024
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Indonesia mine landslide toll up to 13 as search ends

Indonesia mine landslide toll up to 13 as search ends
Updated 29 September 2024
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JAKARTA: The death toll after a landslide at an illegal mine in western Indonesia was raised to 13 on Sunday, an official said, as search efforts for any further victims ended.
Heavy rains caused a landslide at a remote illegal mining site on Thursday evening in West Sumatra province on Sumatra island, where rescue workers had to walk for hours from the nearest village to reach the area.
Provincial disaster mitigation agency spokesperson Ilham Wahab said 13 people were found dead, while 12 others were injured, raising the death toll by two.
“Since all 25 reported victims have been found and evacuated, we decided to close the search and rescue operation,” Ilham told AFP.
But he said a public reporting post would remain open for the next seven days to allow families to report any missing relatives to authorities.
Unlicensed mines are common across the mineral-rich Southeast Asian archipelago, where abandoned sites attract locals who hunt for leftover gold ore without proper safety equipment.
Indonesia is prone to landslides during the rainy season, typically between November and April, but some disasters caused by adverse weather have taken place outside that season in recent years.

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