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Russian strikes targeted two buses on Thursday in the city of Kramatorsk, a highly strategic position about ten kilometres from the front line in the Donbass. The capital Kiev was also targeted, following a massive Russian attack that killed 32 people.
At least 30 people were killed in a Russian strike on two buses in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk in the eastern Donetsk region on Thursday. Earlier, a drone hit a data centre belonging to Russian technology company Yandex, causing a fire.
Amid student protests, Al Jazeera visualises how French spending stacks up against defence and healthcare.
Maricarmen, a 87-year-old woman, was expelled from her apartment in Madrid on 23 September. As a result, thousands of people had taken to the streets to protest against the housing crisis in Spain. The retiree died on Wednesday, announced a tenant union.
Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked housing protests in Spain, has died, Madrid's tenants' union said on Wednesday. Massive protests following Abascal's eviction spiralled into a political crisis, eventually leading Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to call a snap election.
Renewable electricity is cheaper than ever. While the West got rich on coal and oil, some of the world's poorest countries are banking on solar, wind and water instead.
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization, the United States and the European Union called on Russia to be more transparent after the death of a laboratory worker working at a pestilence study institute, while reports point to a possible second suspicious case. "No health problems related to infectious pathology have been detected," the Russian public health agency said.
The World Health Organization joined Western leaders on Wednesday in urging Russia to share more information about what killed a plague institute worker in Siberia as reports emerged of a second suspected case. The Kremlin said Moscow had shared what it knew and accused the media of spreading "false information".
A court on Wednesday ordered the former head of Germany's foreign intelligence service August Hanning to remain in pretrial detention after his arrest on suspicion of espionage and treason, along with a former deputy who allegedly supplied him with secret files. Here's what we know about one of the biggest security breaches in German history.
Scotland's top flight is the best attended in Europe per head of population. But does the rising cost of going to games put that status at risk?
After photovoltaic panels and automobiles, European telecommunications could sink into the crisis. Because of what, or rather, who? Competition from American tech giants. They are no longer called "Gafam" but "Mangos" for Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI and SpaceX. "Mangos" could turn Deutsch Telekom, Orange, Vodafone or Telefónica into vulgar providers.
In "Behind the Image", focus on insect breeding and its prospects in Europe. Gabrielle Maréchaux, environmental journalist at The Conversation France, deciphers the promises of this sector and the obstacles to its development. What place could insects take in our diet?
Recognized as a specialist in the crimes committed by the Russian authorities in Chechnya and an ardent critic of Vladimir Putin, Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the lobby of her building in Moscow on 7 October 2006. Twenty years later, his publisher in France, Jean-François Bouthors, gave him the floor in a punched novel where the journalist's spirit came back to haunt the Russian president.
Finland has emerged as a key location for data centers amid the AI boom.
Assassinated Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya "predicted" Moscow's trajectory under President Vladimir Putin 20 years ago, her former editor said ahead of the anniversary of her death on Wednesday. Politkovskaya had reported on the war in Chechnya and Putin's rise before she was gunned down in her Moscow apartment block on October 7, 2006.
Russia carried out large-scale strikes on Ukraine on Wednesday, targeting energy infrastructure and housing and killing at least 20 people, according to a first assessment. Kiev accuses Moscow of intensifying attacks on the capital, which is targeted almost daily.
Russian missiles and drones killed at least 21 people in Ukraine, including four children, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky called a “massive” strike on Wednesday. Ukraine has come under increased attack in recent weeks as Russian attacks have targeted energy infrastructure and rail and road transport.
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would speak “very soon” with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the reported death from plague of a laboratory technician, as Washington and the World Health Organization pressed Moscow for greater transparency and clarity over conflicting accounts of the incident in Siberia.
August Hanning, who led the German Intelligence Service from 1998 to 2005, is suspected of using classified documents to write an analysis for a foreign intelligence service, possibly Azerbaijani, according to Der Spiegel. The former Chief of Staff, who was in office until 2006, is suspected of transmitting the documents. The Tuesday announcement of the arrest of the two men embarrasses the German services, which seek to strengthen themselves against Russia.
Former German spy chief August Hanning was detained Tuesday on suspicion of treason and espionage after prosecutors accused him of paying for secret intelligence documents and using them to prepare an analysis for a foreign intelligence service, in a case that could strain Berlin’s ties with allied spy agencies.
