Six In The Morning Tuesday 10 September 2024

 

Ukraine strikes Moscow in biggest drone attack to date

Story by Reuters

 3 minute read 

Updated 9:13 AM EDT, Tue September 10, 2024

Ukraine struck the Moscow region on Tuesday in its biggest drone attack so far on the Russian capital, killing at least one woman, wrecking dozens of homes and forcing around 50 flights to be diverted from airports around Moscow.

Russia, the world’s biggest nuclear power, said it destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region, which has a population of more than 21 million, and 124 more over eight other regions.

At least one person was killed near Moscow, Russian authorities said. Three of Moscow’s four airports were closed for more than six hours and almost 50 flights were diverted.

Former partner accused of killing Rebecca Cheptegei dies in hospital from burns

Reuters

Tue 10 Sep 2024 10.06 BST

The former partner of Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who had been accused of killing her by dousing her in petrol and setting her on fire, has died from burns sustained during the attack, the Kenyan hospital where he was being treated said on Tuesday.

Cheptegei, 33, who competed in the marathon at the Paris Olympics, suffered burns to more than 75% of her body in the 1 September attack and died four days later.

Tepco starts extracting radioactive fuel debris at Fukushima No. 1 plant

By Kathleen Benoza
Staff writer

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) started extracting a small amount of radioactive debris from a reactor at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Tuesday — a small but key step in its decommissioning of the facility crippled by a triple meltdown in March 2011.

The removal of even a small amount of melted nuclear fuel has taken Tepco more than 13 years, which shows how challenging the task is.

EU top court rules against Apple, Google

The tech giants have been ordered to repay taxes and fines they had long fought against. The multibillion-euro cases against the iPhone maker and Google are part of Europe's battle to rein in massive US corporations.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Tuesday that Google had violated antitrust laws and that Apple needed to pay the European Union €13 billion ($14.3 billion) in back taxes. Both cases are seen as an effort by Brussels to close tax loopholes exploited by the US tech giants.

"Ireland granted Apple unlawful aid, which Ireland is required to recover," ECJ judges said, referring to the company's deal with Dublin over taxes.

The case against Google dates back to 2017, when the EU accused Google of prioritizing its own Google Shopping links in searches. The bloc has argued this violates its antitrust regulations.

Dam overflow sparks new crisis in insurgency-hit Nigerian city

Flood water from an overflowing dam has destroyed tens of houses in Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno state in northeast Nigeria, with emergency officials fearing the situation could get worse.

Several aerial videos and photos shared by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) with AFP showed rows of houses submerged in murky water.

An epicentre of more than a decade-long jihadist insurgency, Maiduguri serves as the hub for the responses to the humanitarian crisis in the northeast region.

The United Nations refugee agency in Nigeria (UNHCR) said on its X account that it is the city’s worst flooding in 30 years.

India’s Manipur imposes curfew, cuts internet to quell escalating violence

The move follows student protests calling for peace that erupted in response to a new wave of ethnic violence.

Authorities in India’s northeastern state of Manipur have imposed an indefinite curfew and blocked internet access following student protests against a new surge in the ethnic violence that has rocked the region for more than a year.

On Tuesday, a notice from the state’s Home Ministry ordered all internet and mobile data services to be shut off for five days to bring the latest unrest under control.