NewsOvernight turmoil: Drone attacks in Ukraine, quake rattles Med
Overnight turmoil: Drone attacks in Ukraine, quake rattles Med
It happened while you were sleeping. Here's what global agencies noted overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday.
- Putin disregards calls for a 30-day ceasefire. Overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, air raid sirens wailed across almost all of Ukraine as swarms of drones attacked Ukrainian cities. Explosions were heard in regions including Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, and Kirovohrad.
- Sali Berisha, leader of the Democratic Party, the main opposition in Albania, urged his supporters to protest on Tuesday after he refused to recognize the results of Sunday's parliamentary elections. With 98 percent of the votes counted, it was announced that the ruling Socialist Party of Prime Minister Edi Rama had won.
- The Malian Armed Forces (FAMA) and Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group arrested 100 men, mainly herders from the Fulani ethnic group, last month in the city of Sebabougou in the western part of the country. About 60 were kidnapped. A week later, their relatives discovered dozens of bodies near the military base. UN experts determined that they were executed by Wagner Group mercenaries.
- President Donald Trump announced the lifting of sanctions on Syria and the normalization of relations with the new government. The White House confirmed that Trump would meet with Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Shara on Wednesday. Al-Shara was formerly a commander of Al-Qaeda and spent five years in American prisons in Iraq.
- Residents of several Mediterranean countries felt tremors overnight. Reports came from Beirut, Damascus, and Cairo, among others. The tremors were likely caused by an earthquake with its epicenter, as reported by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), located 24 miles southwest of the island of Karpathos in Greece. Seismologists recorded a magnitude of 6.1.
