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Russia launches several waves of drone attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine’s military says

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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out the fire after Russia attacked the city with guided bombs overnight in Zaporizhzhia on Sept. 29, 2024. Russian forces later struck Kyiv early Monday. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
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Residents react as they stand next to a damaged residential building following a Russian missile attack in Zaporizhzhia, southern Ukraine, September 29, 2024. Russian forces later struck Kyiv early Monday. (AFP)
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Updated 30 September 2024
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Russia launches several waves of drone attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine’s military says

Russia launches several waves of drone attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine’s military says
  • The attack followed Sunday's strikes targetting civilian homes in Zaporizhzhia, southern Ukraine, killing at least 11 people
Updated 30 September 2024
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KYIV: Russia launched several waves of drone attacks targeting Kyiv early on Monday, with air defense units engaged in repelling the strikes for several hours, Ukraine’s military said.
Reuters’ witnesses heard numerous blasts in Kyiv in what sounded like air defense systems in operation and saw objects being hit in the air.
Kyiv, its surrounding region and all eastern part of Ukraine have been under air raid alerts since around 1 a.m. on Monday (2200 GMT on Sunday).
“Several enemy UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) are over and near the capital,” Vitali Klitschko, Kyiv’s mayor said on the Telegram messaging app.
Ukraine’s air force said earlier on Telegram that several groups of Russian drone attacks were heading toward Kyiv and Ukraine’s west. It also said it detected the launch of several guided bombs from Russia-controlled parts of Ukraine at around 04:40 a.m. (0140 GMT).
There was no immediate comment from Moscow, which has launched multiple air attacks on Kyiv and Ukraine throughout September, targeting Ukraine’s energy, military and transport infrastructure in which dozens of civilians have died.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties as a result of the attacks.

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Trump suspect to appear in court on attempted assassination charge

Trump suspect to appear in court on attempted assassination charge
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Trump suspect to appear in court on attempted assassination charge

Trump suspect to appear in court on attempted assassination charge
  • Routh expected to plead not guilty to five federal charges
  • Prosecutors allege Routh intended to kill Trump at golf course
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WEST PALM BEACH:The man charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump after allegedly positioning himself with a rifle outside one of the former president’s Florida golf courses is due to appear in court on Monday to enter a plea to five federal charges.
Ryan Routh, 58, is expected to plead not guilty to charges that include attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate. He has already been ordered to remain in jail to await a trial.
Prosecutors allege Routh intended to kill Trump as he golfed at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on Sept. 15. Routh, a struggling roofing contractor, condemned the Republican presidential candidate in a self-published book and dropped off a letter left months earlier with an associate referencing an attempted assassination on Trump, prosecutors allege.
“This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you,” the suspect wrote, according to a court filing by prosecutors.
Lawyers for Routh suggested at a Sept. 23 court hearing that the letter may have been an attempt at gaining publicity and highlighted what they called Routh’s efforts to promote democracy in Ukraine and Taiwan.
Routh hid outside a fence overlooking the sixth hole of the course, where authorities found an AK-47-style rifle, a bag of snacks, a digital camera and bags containing metal plates meant to withstand return fire by the US Secret Service, according to prosecutors.
A Secret Service agent patrolling the course ahead of Trump spotted Routh and opened fire after noticing the rifle sticking through a fence. Routh fled and was later arrested along a Florida highway, prosecutors allege.
He was initially charged with gun-related offenses. An indictment last week added the attempted assassination charge along with assault on a federal officer and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
The Florida incident was the second apparent assassination attempt on Trump in a roughly two-month span, raising questions about protection of the candidate ahead of the Nov. 5 election. A gunman wounded Trump’s right ear and killed an attendee at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 before being killed by a Secret Service sniper.
Trump has sought to turn the assassination attempts into a campaign issue, alleging the Justice Department, which charged Trump in two criminal cases last year, should not be trusted to handle the investigation.

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Two more migrant boats reach Canary Islands after deadly sinking

Two more migrant boats reach Canary Islands after deadly sinking
Updated 30 September 2024
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Two more migrant boats reach Canary Islands after deadly sinking

Two more migrant boats reach Canary Islands after deadly sinking
  • A makeshift vessel carrying 81 migrants reached Tenerife, the Canaries’ largest island, emergency services said on Sunday evening
Updated 30 September 2024
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EL HIERRO: Two boats loaded with migrants reached the Canary Islands late on Sunday as rescuers kept searching for 48 missing from an earlier sea wreck that may be the deadliest such accident for 30 years in the Spanish archipelago.
A makeshift vessel carrying 81 migrants reached Tenerife, the Canaries’ largest island, emergency services said on Sunday evening. At least one of the migrants required hospitalization.
Another migrant boat reached the second largest Canary island, Fuerteventura. The emergency services did not specify the number of migrants on that boat. A third boat containing some 80 migrants was nearing the smallest island of El Hierro.
The two crossings followed a disastrous sinking of a migrant boat at the weekend that killed at least nine people and left at least 48 missing, including one under 18 years old, rescue services said. Rescuers were able to pick up 27 of 84 migrants who were trying to reach Spanish shores from West Africa.
The disaster prompted Fernando Clavijo, the Canary Islands’ regional president, to call for mainland Spain and the European Union to act to ease a crisis in which migrant crossings from West Africa to the archipelago have soared by 85 percent this year.
“This situation sadly should push us all to immediately and urgently seek an agreement that allows us to deal with this phenomenon,” Clavijo told reporters.
The number of migrants crossing from West Africa to the Canary Islands, a perilous journey that can be as long as 800 miles (1,300 km), rose between Jan. 1 and Sept. 15 to 26,758, interior ministry data show. Meanwhile, the migrant flow from North Africa along routes in the central and western Mediterranean ebbed, EU Frontex border agency figures indicate.
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.
Earlier this year, Clavijo said his teams expected 70,000 migrants to reach the Spanish archipelago by year end, almost a two-fold rise versus 2023 record arrivals of 39,910.
The rising number of migrants, driven by extreme poverty and political instability in Africa’s Sahel region, is causing political tension in Spain where mainland regions have resisted calls to take in migrants from the Canary Islands.
In the roughly 30 years of migrant crossings from West Africa to the Canaries, the deadliest recorded shipwreck occurred in 2009 off the island of Lanzarote when 25 people died.

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Denmark faces EU court questions on housing policy, racism

Denmark faces EU court questions on housing policy, racism
Updated 30 September 2024
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Denmark faces EU court questions on housing policy, racism

Denmark faces EU court questions on housing policy, racism
Updated 30 September 2024
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COPENHAGEN: Denmark must answer accusations at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Monday that its policy of demolishing minority-heavy neighbourhoods to promote integration amounts to racial discrimination.
The Nordic country in 2018 introduced what it called a ghetto package, a controversial plan to radically alter certain residential zones, including by tearing down social housing units to disperse residents.
Known for strict immigration policies, Denmark has had relative success in integrating migrants from non-Western countries, with high language proficiency and employment rates, but faced a backlash from those affected by the 2018 plan.
At the core of the case is whether Denmark's use of the term "ethnic origin", often used to describe people of colour when classifying ghetto neighbourhoods, is racially discriminatory.
Denmark defines areas with over 1,000 residents as ghettos if more than 50% are "immigrants and their descendants from non-Western countries", and where at least two other criteria on education, income, crime and work force participation are met.
A dozen residents from Mjolnerparken, a residential area in Copenhagen, first filed a case against Denmark's ministry of social affairs in 2020 after facing eviction.
A Danish court in 2023 requested a preliminary ECJ hearing to determine whether the term "ethnic origin" should be interpreted as including "non-Western" background and, if so, whether this was discriminatory.
Eddie Khawaja, a lawyer for the residents, said the plaintiffs felt stigmatised.
"They feel offended by the fact that in everyday speech, in legislation, in all the political proposals that surround this, they have been referred to as residents of ghetto areas," Khawaja said.
Denmark's ministry of social affairs declined to comment, saying it did not discuss ongoing cases.
Once the ECJ has reached a conclusion, the case will return to the Danish court which will decide how to apply the ruling.

Russia launches waves of drone attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine’s military says

Russia launches waves of drone attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine’s military says
Updated 30 September 2024
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Russia launches waves of drone attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine’s military says

Russia launches waves of drone attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine’s military says
  • All the drones that Russia launched at Kyiv were either destroyed by defense systems or neutralized by electronic warfare
Updated 30 September 2024
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KYIV: Russia launched several waves of drones targeting Kyiv early on Monday, with air defense units successfully defending the city during the attack which lasted over five hours, Ukraine’s military said.
Reuters’ witnesses heard numerous blasts in the Ukrainian capital in what sounded like air defense systems in operation and saw objects being hit in the air.
All the drones that Russia launched at Kyiv were either destroyed by defense systems or neutralized by electronic warfare, Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration said on the Telegram messaging app.
According to preliminary information, there were no casualties and no damage reported, he added. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said drone debris fell by a residential building with emergency services working on site.
The Ukrainian air force said on Monday that it shot down 67 out of 73 drones and one of three missiles launched by Russia during the attack.
Governor Ruslan Kravchenko reported no damage to critical or residential infrastructure in the region surrounding the capital. He said that the attack caused fires in five districts of the region, but there were no casualties.
Mykolaiv governor Vitaliy Kim said the attack caused a fire at a critical infrastructure facility in the southern region.
Russia has launched multiple air attacks on Kyiv and Ukraine throughout September, targeting Ukraine’s energy, military and transport infrastructure in attacks which have killed dozens of civilians.
Russia denies targeting civilians in the full-scale invasion it called a “special operation” when it was launched in February 2022.

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Flooding deaths in Nepal reach 193 as recovery work is stepped up

Flooding deaths in Nepal reach 193 as recovery work is stepped up
Updated 30 September 2024
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Flooding deaths in Nepal reach 193 as recovery work is stepped up

Flooding deaths in Nepal reach 193 as recovery work is stepped up
Updated 30 September 2024
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Katmandu, Nepal: The number of people killed by flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rainfall over the weekend in Nepal reached 193 while recovery and rescue work stepped up Monday.
Many of the deaths were in the capital, Katmandu, which got heavy rainfall, and much of southern part of the city was flooded. Police said in a statement that 31 people were still reported missing and 96 people were injured across the Himalayan nation.
A landslide killed three dozen people on a blocked highway about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Katmandu. The landslide buried at least three buses and other vehicles where people were sleeping because the highway was blocked.
Katmandu had remained cut off all weekend as the three highways out of the city were blocked by landslides. Workers were able to temporarily open up the key Prithvi highway, removing rocks, mud and trees that had been washed from the mountains.
The home minister announced temporary shelters would be built for people who lost their homes and monetary help would be available for the families of those killed and to the people who were injured by the flooding and landslides.
Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli was returning home Monday from attending the UN General Assembly meeting and has called an emergency meeting, his office said.
Improved weather has allowed rescue and recovery work to be stepped up.
Residents in the southern part of Katmandu, which was inundated on Saturday, were cleaning up houses as water levels began to recede. At least 34 people were killed in Katmandu, which was the hardest hit by flooding.
Police and soldiers were assisting with rescue efforts, while heavy equipment was used to clear the landslides from the roads. The government announced it was closing schools and colleges across Nepal for the next three days.
The monsoon season began in June and usually ends by mid-September.
Meanwhile, in northern Bangladesh, about 60,000 people were affected by flooding in low-lying areas because of rains and rising water from upstream India.
People have taken shelter on roads and flood protection embankments in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram districts, the English-language Daily Star reported.
The River Teesta that crosses the border was overflowing at some points and the Dharala and Dudhkumar rivers in the Rangpur region were rising but remained below danger levels, the Dhaka-based Flood Forecasting and Warning Center said Monday. Waters could start receding in a day or two, it said.
Bangladesh is a low-lying delta nation crisscrossed by about 230 rivers, including more than 50 that cross borders.

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