Indonezijos kurortinėje Balio saloje kilo degalų trūkumas, kurį pareigūnai aiškina tiekimo sutrikimais. Pareigūnai paragino gyventojus išlikti ramius ir pabrėžė, kad degalų pakaks visai salai. Vis dėlto, liudininkų teigimu, eilės prie degalinių kai kur nusidriekė iki kilometro.

Pasieniečiams panaudojus antidroninę įrangą, priverstinai nuleista kontrabandinė skraidyklė, kuria gabenta 1 tūkst. pakelių cigarečių. Šis pažeidimas nustatytas vadinamojoje Dieveniškių kilpoje – iš trijų pusių Baltarusijos teritorijos apsuptame ruože.

Ukraine says Starlink access has improved but it is still facing speed limits which are disrupting its battlefield "missions".

A search and rescue operation is under way in the Black Sea after the latest attack in the area.

The culture secretary says the deal could affect free expression in the media and the variety of Britain's news landscape.

The economy grew by 0.1% in August, defying analysts' expectations of a slight contraction.

BRUSSELS — NATO allies will hold a crisis meeting to discuss how to respond to a series of drone strikes on cargo shipping in the Black Sea, Romania’s President Nicușor Dan said.  Two chemical tankers were hit by air drones in the past 24 hours in or near Romania’s territorial waters, but it is “too early” to say for sure whether Russia was behind the attacks, Dan said.  Dan was speaking on the sidelines of the European Council summit in Brussels, where he spoke to Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.  “The secretary general expressed the solidarity of the alliance and there will be a NAC [North Atlantic Council] meeting at which the whole situation with the Black Sea will be discussed,” Dan told POLITICO. “Of course the conclusion is that all the hybrid attacks are trying to decrease our support for Ukraine. We will continue to support,” he said.

NEWRY, Northern Ireland — The former leader of Northern Ireland’s main pro-British party, Jeffrey Donaldson, received a 15-year prison sentence Thursday for sexually abusing two schoolgirls and continuing for decades into their adulthood. Donaldson, 63, kept his hands clasped together but offered no visible reaction as Judge Paul Ramsey said the former Democratic Unionist Party leader must serve an 11-year sentence for raping one girl and a further 4-year term for sexually abusing another. Donaldson has been behind bars since June, when a jury found him guilty of 18 counts of sexually abusing the two women — identified in court only as Victim A and Victim B — when they were children. The listed offenses ran from 1985 to 2008. Ramsey, addressing a packed Newry Crown Court, read from the two victims’ statements, which described abuse that began when they were 7 or 8 years old. One of the victims described recurring nightmares: “I wonder what it is like not to be afraid at night.” The judge noted how Donaldson, who is appealing the conviction, had “doubled down on his denials” over what he called the veteran politician’s “catastrophic descent into disgrace.” Donaldson’s former party, which denounced him immediately after his 2024 arrest and scrubbed him from the DUP website, said in a statement Thursday that Donaldson “deserves every day of the lengthy prison sentence he has to serve” for what it described as “vile and disgusting crimes.” “Our first thoughts are again with the innocent victims who, having suffered such evil, were retraumatized through giving evidence at the trial. They deserve our compassion, support and respect,” the DUP statement said. Donaldson was an MP representing Lagan Valley from 1997 to 2024, first for the moderate Ulster Unionist Party and then — after belatedly breaking with the party over its support for the Good Friday peace accord of 1998 — as a member of the hard-line DUP. Donaldson became DUP leader in 2021, when he oversaw the collapse of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government in a bitter dispute over the region’s peculiar post-Brexit trade rules. Just weeks before his arrest, he again played a key role in reviving the coalition, the cornerstone of the Good Friday peace deal he had once rejected. In March 2024, Donaldson was arrested in his secluded County Down home and charged alongside his wife, Eleanor. She was subsequently deemed by the Newry judge not mentally fit to stand trial on charges of aiding and abetting his crimes. The U.K. government in July removed Donaldson from membership in the Privy Council, a body of parliamentary advisers to King Charles III. The king also stripped him of his knighthood. Donaldson has been placed in an isolated hospital wing at Northern Ireland’s Maghaberry Prison, alongside other convicted sex offenders, to protect him from potential assaults from other prisoners. He reportedly is spending much of his days behind bars doing puzzles and reading the Bible.

Russia has accused Ukraine of going against US peace efforts, after an overnight Ukrainian drone strike.

Vinicius wants protection for players like him, Yamal and Alvarez 'who bring something different to the game.'

Ukrainian president warns of ‘dangerous signals about the possibility of further sanctions relief’ after Russian strike on a supermarketJust as the leaders sit down at the big table in Brussels, Romania has said that seven people are still missing after a fire on a vessel in Romanian territorial waters of the Black Sea.Suspected Russian drones have hit several ships off Romania and neighbouring Bulgaria since last week in a spillover from the Ukraine war, AFP reported. Continue reading...

Officials issue guidance saying the ammonia in animal urine should be watered down to stop it corroding barkA neighbourhood in Vienna has introduced guidelines for dog walking, including the use of bottled tap water to rinse away urine and protect vulnerable trees.Neubau, an up-and-coming, densely populated district dotted with cafes and galleries, rolled out the Schönes Gassi (nice dog walk) campaign this week. Continue reading...

Chemical vessels go up in flames off Romania after Russian drones were spotted in the area

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The recent disruption of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine comes as Washington steps up pressure on Kyiv to halt its strikes on Russian oil refineries. The system plays a key role in Ukraine’s long-range drone operations, raising questions about the implications of the disruption and Elon Musk’s increasingly close ties with Donald Trump.

Last July, Chad announced plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, accusing it of inefficiency and of disproportionately targeting African nations. The decision could complicate future investigations into alleged war crimes linked to the conflict in neighbouring Sudan, particularly as ICC investigators engage with Sudanese refugees sheltering in eastern Chad. Despite the political headwinds, humanitarian organisations remain on the ground, supporting those displaced by the crisis, as FRANCE 24’s Harold Girard reports.

A school roof collapsed in Peshawar, northwestern Pakistan, on Thursday 15 October, killing at least 32 pupils and a teacher. Officials said the roof was structurally weak and had been overloaded by construction work. The school’s owner was arrested and an investigation launched.

Somalia announced on Thursday that parliamentary and presidential elections would be held next year, despite an increasingly fractured political landscape and worries over mounting instability.