Kabul rocked by explosion during air strikes reportedly targeting TTP Chief
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Russia said its air defences shot down 87 Ukrainian drones over four border regions early Thursday, while simultaneous missile-and-drone strikes on Kyiv left at least 12 people dead and more than 100 injured.
Russia said its air-defence network intercepted a major Ukrainian drone barrage in the early hours of Thursday, downing 87 UAVs over Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk and Moscow regions, according to the Defence Ministry. Moscow added that its forces later struck Ukrainian military airports, drone-production sites and other targets in Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia.
Kyiv, meanwhile, reported heavy missile-and-drone attacks across the country, including the capital, where blasts shook the city around 01:00 and rubble-clearance continued through the day. Ukrainian officials said they shot down more than 100 incoming targets but confirmed at least 12 dead and over 100 injured in Kyiv.
Ukraine’s General Staff counted 168 frontline engagements in the previous 24 hours and said its own strikes hit 10 Russian troop-and-equipment concentrations, drone control points and an electronic-warfare site, as well as a UAV plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Large parts of Kyiv were plunged into darkness in the early hours of Friday after Russian drones and missiles struck Ukrainian energy facilities, cutting power and water to homes and halting a key metro link across the Dnipro river.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for promoting democratic rights in her country and her struggle to achieve a transition to democracy, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
Today, 10 October, the CIS Heads of State Council meeting is underway in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, in a limited format attended by leaders from member states.
Start your day informed with AnewZ Morning Brief: here are the top news stories for the 10th of October, covering the latest developments you need to know.
Peru's Congress voted unanimously on Friday to remove President Dina Boluarte from office in a late-night session held hours after political blocs from across the spectrum called for her ouster.
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