NewsTensions rise as global unrest and natural disasters converge
Tensions rise as global unrest and natural disasters converge
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 nearly all of Ukraine. Swarms of drones attacked Ukrainian cities. Explosions were heard in various locations, including the Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, and Kirovohrad regions.
- Sali Berisha, leader of the Democratic Party - the main opposition party in Albania, has called on his supporters to protest on Tuesday after refusing to recognise the results of Sunday's parliamentary elections. With 98 per cent of votes counted, it was announced that the ruling Socialist Party of Prime Minister Edi Rama had won.
- The Malian Armed Forces (FAMA), along with 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 of them 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 normalisation 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, who was once a commander of Al-Qaeda, spent five years in American prisons in Iraq.
- Residents of several Mediterranean countries felt tremors overnight. Reports came in from residents of Beirut, Damascus, and Cairo, among others. These tremors were likely triggered by an earthquake. According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the epicentre was located approximately 39 kilometres southwest of the island of Karpathos in Greece. Seismologists recorded a quake with a magnitude of 6.1 there.
