NewsOvernight reports: Drones strike Ukrainian cities; Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa dies
Overnight reports: Drones strike Ukrainian cities; Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa dies
It happened while you were sleeping. Here's what global agencies reported from Sunday night to Monday.
- The Russians continue to attack Ukrainian cities from the air. On Monday night, swarms of drones and ballistic missiles targeted areas including Odesa and Kharkiv. In Odesa, at least five people were injured as Russian drones struck a local hospital, residential buildings, and one of the city's main roads. Houses and cars caught fire. In Kharkiv, a drone strike set a food warehouse ablaze, and the shock wave damaged several nearby houses.
- According to Houthi rebels on Sunday evening, a U.S. airstrike on a factory located west of Yemen's capital, Sana'a, killed five people and injured 13. The U.S. military has not yet commented on reports of the airstrike near Sana'a.
- Peruvian novelist, essayist, journalist, and politician Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel Prize laureate in literature and one of the most influential writers in Latin America, passed away on Sunday in Lima at the age of 89, as reported by his children.
- An earthquake occurred in the South Pacific, 382 miles from Nuku‘alofa, the capital of Tonga, a country on an archipelago of the same name in Polynesia, situated one-third of the way between New Zealand and Hawaii. According to EMCS, the earthquake had a magnitude of 6.5, with its epicenter located at a depth of 163 miles.
