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Overnight Russian drone and missile attacks on Kyiv killed at least six people, injured dozens, and damaged residential buildings and a metro station serving as a bomb shelter, Ukrainian officials said.
The strikes hit Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district hardest, where the entrance of a residential high-rise was destroyed, leaving people trapped under rubble, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. Damage spread across six of the city’s 10 districts, injuring at least 10 people.
A 68-year-old woman was killed and eight others wounded in the broader Kyiv region, according to regional governor Mykola Kalashnik. Rescuers evacuated people, including a pregnant woman, from burning buildings throughout the night.
Kyiv’s metro exit in the Sviatoshynskyi district was also damaged. These deep metro stations have served as vital bomb shelters since the war began.
Russia has not commented on the attacks. Both sides deny deliberately targeting civilians, but thousands have been killed since the conflict began in February 2022.
Last week’s drone assault on Kyiv was one of the deadliest, killing 28 and injuring more than 150 people.
The Turkish Defence Ministry has voiced its support for recent military operations by Syrian government forces against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which enjoy the support of the United States.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Saturday (17 January) that concerns over security in Greenland should be addressed within the framework of NATO, describing a ground military intervention as highly unlikely.
Ashley St. Clair, mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, has filed a lawsuit against Musk’s company xAI, alleging that its AI tool Grok generated explicit images of her, including one portraying her as underage.
Egypt and Sudan have welcomed an offer by U.S. President Donald Trump to restart mediation with Ethiopia in a bid to resolve the long-running dispute over Nile River water sharing.
Elon Musk is seeking up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing that the companies profited unfairly from his early support of the artificial intelligence firm, according to a court filing made public on Friday.
The European Union faced calls to implement a range of economic countermeasures in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans to impose tariffs on eight European countries in connection with Greenland.
Six people have been killed after a massive fire tore through a shopping centre in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, authorities said, as firefighters battled through the night to contain the blaze.
The world is entering a more unstable and fragmented phase as global cooperation declines and rivalry between major powers intensifies, the World Economic Forum has warned.
The Trump administration has denied a report that countries would be required to pay $1bn to join a proposed U.S.-backed peace initiative, after Bloomberg News said a draft charter set out a membership fee.
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