NewsLast night's news: Missile remnants injure 13 in Kursk; protests in Serbia rise

Last night's news: Missile remnants injure 13 in Kursk; protests in Serbia rise

It happened while you were sleeping. Here is what the world agencies reported from Saturday night to Sunday.

The media report damages in Kursk after a Ukrainian shelling. Missiles hit, among other places, a residential building.
The media report damages in Kursk after a Ukrainian shelling. Missiles hit, among other places, a residential building.
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5:58 AM EDT, August 11, 2024

  • At least 13 people were injured, including two seriously, in the city of Kursk in western Russia from the remnants of a destroyed missile launched by Ukrainian forces - Reuters reported on Sunday, citing Alexei Smirnov, the acting governor of the Kursk region. Since Tuesday, there has been an offensive by Ukrainian forces in this area. Russia is engaged in intense fighting with thousands of Ukrainian soldiers who have penetrated 12 miles into the Kursk region, according to Reuters.
  • Russia carried out an air strike on Kyiv and the air defense systems were engaged in repelling the strike - reported the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Klitschko, from Saturday night to Sunday.
  • Thousands of people took to the streets of Belgrade on Saturday to protest against the plan to open a lithium mine in Serbia. "This is an ecological protest, but also a political one, prompted by a complete lack of trust in our authorities," Milosz, a participant in the demonstration, told PAP. Saturday's protest in Belgrade was preceded by a series of demonstrations organized over two weeks in many cities of Serbia. It was triggered by the government's decision to reinstate the Jadar project, under which the international corporation Rio Tinto will begin exploiting Serbia's lithium deposits. The project was halted at the beginning of 2022 following mass public protests.
  • Former Catalonian Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont, who returned briefly to Barcelona on Thursday after seven years in exile and then left the city, was assisted by a group of regional police officers from the Mossos d'Esquadra - according to a report published by the authorities of this security formation on Saturday.
  • Julia Szeremeta, by winning the silver medal at the XXXIII Summer Olympic Games in Paris, made her mark in Polish sports history. Polish boxing had been waiting 32 years for this medal (since Wojciech Bartnik's bronze in 1992 in Barcelona). Many foreign portals are writing about her success.
  • The USA basketball team won their fifth consecutive Olympic championship. In the final in Paris, they defeated France 98-87 (20-15, 29-26, 23-25, 26-21). The "Tricolors" won silver for the second time in a row. The bronze was won by Serbia after a victory over the world champions Germany, 93-83.
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