Most Ukrainian power plants de-energized after Russian missile strike
From CNN’s Olga Voitovych in Kyiv and Jo Shelley in London
The large-scale Russian missile assault on Ukrainian energy infrastructure Wednesday left most power plants de-energized and the vast majority of people without power, Ukraine's Ministry of Energy said in a statement on Facebook.
“Today's missile attack led to temporary de-energization of all nuclear power plants, and most thermal and hydroelectric power plants,” it said. “Power transmission facilities were also damaged. As a result, the vast majority of electricity consumers across the country were de-energized. There are emergency outages. The lack of electricity may affect the availability of heat and water supply.”
Engineers were working to restore the power supply “as soon as possible” but the scale of the damage meant it “will take time,” the ministry said.
Estimated 45,000 women and girls killed by family member in 2021, UN says
‘Alarmingly high’ worldwide data on femicide shows that more than half of victims were killed by husband, partner or other relative
Sarah Johnson
More than five women and girls were killed every hour by a family member in 2021, according to new UN figures on femicide.
A report, published on Wednesday, showed that 45,000 women and girls – more than half (56%) of the 81,100 murdered last year worldwide – were killed by their husband, partner or other relative.
UN Women and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said the figures were “alarmingly high”, but the true number of femicides – where women are killed because of their gender – is likely to be much higher. Roughly four in 10 deaths in 2021 were not counted as femicides because there was insufficient data. Official figures on femicide have remained largely unchanged over the past decade.
Putin’s Russia declared ‘state sponsor of terrorism’ by European Parliament
Moscow suggests designating European Parliament as a ‘sponsor of idiocy’ in response
The European Parliament has overwhelmingly backed a resolution declaring Vladimir Putin’s Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism” for its invasion of and actions in Ukraine.
In a 494-58 vote with 48 abstentions, the EU legislature sought to increase pressure on Moscow to bring anyone responsible for war crimes committed from the start of the invasion before an international court.
The 27-nation bloc has condemned in the harshest terms the invasion and repeatedly said that several Russian actions over the past 10 months have amounted to war crimes.
Protesters attacked at Foxconn factory amid COVID curbs
Workers at Foxconn, the largest supplier for Apple's iPhone, were attacked after protesting living conditions. The company is working within a closed-loop system, in line with China's restrictive COVID-19 measures.
Protests over COVID-19 restrictions by workers at Foxconn's iPhone factory in central China were met with violence by security personnel, videos circulating on Chinese social media have shown.
Workers at Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory held protests on the factory campus, where they have had to stay since a closed-loop system was announced to counter the spread of COVID-19 without compromising productivity.
Videos of the violence in Zhengzhou showed masked people facing off police in protective suits. Some of the protesters are seen in the videos smashing surveillance cameras and windows on the campus.
Mali's ban on aid groups 'is a clear act of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face'
Independence referendum: Scottish government loses indyref2 court case
The Scottish government cannot hold an independence referendum without the UK government's consent, the Supreme Court has ruled.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants to hold a referendum on 19 October next year.
But the court ruled unanimously that she does not have the power to do so because the issue is reserved to Westminster.
The UK government has refused to grant formal consent for a referendum.
Court president Lord Reed said the laws that created the devolved Scottish Parliament in 1999 meant it did not have power over areas of the constitution including the union between Scotland and England.
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