The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday that five civilians were killed and 46 others injured in what it described as a Ukrainian attack on the Belgorod region, using cluster munitions. The ministry condemned the attack, labeling it a “barbaric strike” that resulted in significant civilian casualties, including seven minors. One child is reported…
Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region is legitimate and covered by Kyiv’s right to self-defense, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told German weekly Welt am Sonntag in his first reaction to the advance into Russian territory. “Ukraine has a right to defend itself. And according to international law, this right does not stop at the…
Typhoon Shanshan continued to pound Japan with heavy rain on Saturday (August 31), triggering landslides and prompting weather officials to issue warnings for flooding hundreds of miles from the storm’s centre, Reuters reports. At least six people have been killed and 125 injured in storm-related incidents such as mudslides in recent days, according to…
Russian troops recently opened fire on Kharkiv. In the Industrialnyi district, a Russian guided aerial bomb hit an entry section of a 12-story building, reported the head of the Kharkiv regional state administration Oleg Synegubov and Mayor Ihor Terekhov. So far, four people have been confirmed dead, including a 14-year-old girl. Another 28 people…
