Six In The Morning Sunday 10 July 2022

 

Russian strike on residential building kills 15 in eastern Ukraine, officials say

By Ivana Kottasová and Tim Lister, CNN

Updated 1529 GMT (2329 HKT) July 10, 2022

At least 15 people have been killed after a Russian strike hit an apartment block in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities said Sunday, adding that many others may still be trapped under the rubble.

The residential building in the town of Chasiv Yar was hit on Saturday evening as Russia once again ramped up its assault on cities and towns in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to take control over the entire Donbas area.

The State Emergency Service said that the bodies of 15 people had been found in the rubble so far and that the search and rescue works continued.

Shinzo Abe: Japanese voters back party of former PM amid shooting fallout

Exit polls show LDP retaining power with comfortable election victory as country mourns

Justin McCurry in Nara

Japan’s ruling party has won a comfortable victory in elections overshadowed by the assassination of the former prime minister, Shinzo Abe.

Exit polls showed that the Liberal Democratic party (LDP), which Abe led until he resigned in 2020, had secured more than half the 125 seats being contested in the 248-seat upper house.

The LDP and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, were projected to win more than 63 seats, according to a Kyodo news agency exit poll. The public broadcaster NHK said the parties would win between 69 and 83 seats.

Nine women ‘spiked with date rape drug’ at event held by German chancellor’s party

SDP official admits that guests were targeted with ‘knockout drops’ at its summer event

Zoe Tidman

At least nine women are suspected to have been spiked with a date rape drug at an event hosted by the German chancellor’s political party.

Police are investigating after several female guests fell ill after going to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) summer gathering – attended by Olaf Scholz – earlier this week.

One young woman said she felt dizzy and unwell at the gathering, and woke up the next day unable to remember the evening.

City of SteelA Visit to Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Hometown

How did the actor Volodymyr Zelenskyy transform into a wartime president? Some answers can be found in his hometown, the heavy industry city of Kryvyi Rih. Pride in their famous son is palpable, as is a feeling that the war is drawing ever closer.

By Walter Mayr in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine

Kryvyi Rih is as a city with a core of steel. And even today, it is an apt appellation, offering up images that seem straight out of the Soviet era: men who labor away at the blast furnaces for 10 hours a day; working women who rush home from their jobs in the evening through the urban canyons. Images from a world dominated by iron ore, coke and steel.

The majority of the 630,000 residents of this metropolis in central Ukraine speak Russian – not so much in administrative offices, but certainly outside on the streets. And those streets are covered in the dust of iron ore, with deep red puddles forming after rainfall. Kryvyi Rih has the highest cancer rate in the country. The steel complex covers an area roughly the size of a mid-sized Ukrainian city.

Iraq: Mosul's long road to recovery, five years after IS group's defeat

On July 10, 2017, Iraq's second-largest city was wrested back from the hands of the Islamic State (IS) group after two years under its rule of terror. But the devastating battle left much of the city in ruins, especially in the historic centre. 

Five years on, FRANCE 24's reporters Lucille Wasserman, Meethak al Khatib and Yasmine Mosimann went to see how the city is faring and why many Iraqis are frustrated at the slow pace of recovery.

Sri Lanka hopes to install new gov’t after day of chaos and rage

Calm on the streets, a day after protesters stormed the president’s residence and set fire to PM’s house, forcing both leaders to announce resignations.

By Aanya Wipulasena

Published On 10 Jul 202210 Jul 2022

There is calm on the streets of Sri Lanka, a day after protesters stormed the president’s residence and set fire to the prime minister’s house, forcing both the leaders to announce their resignations over a worsening economic crisis in the country.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to quit on Wednesday, marking a dramatic end to the powerful clan’s hold over Sri Lankan politics for more than two decades.