NewsOvernight reports: Russian airstrikes escalate; Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa dies
Overnight reports: Russian airstrikes escalate; Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa dies
It happened while you were sleeping. Here's what global agencies reported from Sunday night to Monday.
ed. Violetta Baran
- The Russians continue to attack Ukrainian cities from the air. On Monday night, swarms of drones and ballistic missiles targeted places including Odesa and Kharkiv. In Odesa, at least five people were injured, as Russian drones attacked a local hospital, residential buildings, and one of the city's main roads. Houses and cars were set on fire. In Kharkiv, a drone strike caused a food warehouse to catch fire, and the shock wave damaged several nearby houses.
- According to Houthi rebels on Sunday evening, five people were killed, and 13 were injured in a U.S. airstrike on a factory located west of Yemen's capital, Sana'a. 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, his children reported.
- An earthquake occurred in the South Pacific, roughly 615 kilometres from Nuku‘alofa, the capital of Tonga, a country located on an archipelago of the same name in Polynesia, situated about one-third of the way between New Zealand and Hawaii. According to EMCS, the tremors had a magnitude of 6.5. The earthquake's epicenter was located at a depth of about 262 kilometres.
