NewsGlobal turmoil: Russian airstrikes, US raid in Yemen, Llosa dies
Global turmoil: Russian airstrikes, US raid in Yemen, 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 attacked, among other places, Odesa and Kharkiv. In Odesa, at least five people were injured as Russian drones targeted a local hospital, residential buildings, and one of the city's main roads. Houses and cars were set ablaze. In Kharkiv, following a drone strike, a food warehouse caught fire, and the shockwave damaged several nearby houses.
- According to Houthi rebels on Sunday evening, five people were killed and 13 injured in a US airstrike on a factory located west of Yemen's capital, Sana'a. The US 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 of Latin America, died on Sunday in Lima at the age of 89, his children reported.
- An earthquake occurred in the South Pacific, 615 kilometres from Nuku‘alofa, the capital of Tonga, a country located on an archipelago of the same name in Polynesia, situated a third of the way between New Zealand and Hawaii. According to EMCS, the tremors had a magnitude of 6.5. The earthquake's epicentre was located at a depth of 262 kilometres.
