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Poland fixes fault that briefly disrupted flights, officials say

19 Jul 2025

WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish authorities said they had fixed a fault in air traffic control systems that briefly disrupted take-offs in Warsaw and other cities on Saturday morning, and operations were returning to normal. Warsaw’s Chopin Airport said take-offs and landings were running as usual by midday. Earlier outages had forced authorities to limit the number …

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Kyiv accuses Russia of leaving Ukrainians stranded at Georgian border

19 Jul 2025

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s foreign minister accused Russia on Saturday of deporting Ukrainians into Georgia and leaving them stranded there without proper documents hundreds of miles from their home. Andrii Sybiha said Russia was stepping up the expulsions of Ukrainians – many of them former prisoners – over the southern frontier, rather than sending them directly …

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One dead, six injured in Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s Odesa

19 Jul 2025

(Reuters) -Russian forces staged a mass drone attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa early on Saturday, setting ablaze at least one multi-storey apartment building and killing one resident, authorities said. In recent weeks, Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukrainian cities, prompting U.S. President Donald Trump to sharpen his tone against …

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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says Russia launched over 30 missiles, 300 drones in overnight attack

19 Jul 2025

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Russia launched over 30 missiles and 300 drones in an overnight attack. The attack damaged critical infrastructure in Sumy, where several thousand families suffered power cuts, he added in a statement on the Telegram messaging app. (Reporting by Anastasiia Malenko; editing by Barbara Lewis)

Hundreds of firefighters battling wildfire in southern France amid improved weather conditions

19 Jul 2025

MARTIGUES, France (Reuters) -Nearly 1,000 firefighters and helicopters battled a wildfire about 40 kilometres (25 miles) northwest of France’s second-largest city Marseille on Friday, but officials said lower temperatures and increased humidity had improved the situation The 240-hectare (593 acres) wildfire flared up a week after a separate conflagration reached the northwestern outskirts of Marseille, …

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Australia delivers Abrams tanks to Ukraine for war with Russia

19 Jul 2025

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s government said on Saturday it had delivered M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine as part of a A$245 million ($160 million) package to help the country defend itself against Russia in their ongoing war. Australia, one of the largest non-NATO contributors to Ukraine, has been supplying aid, ammunition and defence equipment since Moscow …

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Russian air defences intercept Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow, mayor says

19 Jul 2025

(Reuters) -Russian air defences intercepted drones heading for Moscow in a series of attacks, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. Sobyanin, writing on Telegram, made no mention of casualties or damage in his accounts of air defence activity, but said 13 drones had been downed or destroyed after midnight. He said specialists were examining fragments where they …

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Israel will not renew visa of top UN humanitarian official

19 Jul 2025

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israel has declined to renew the visa for Jonathan Whittall, the senior U.N. aid official for the occupied Palestinian territories, a U.N. spokesperson said on Friday, adding there were intensifying threats of reduced access to suffering civilians. Eri Kaneko, spokesperson for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, …

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Israel’s Netanyahu called Pope Leo after Gaza church strike, Vatican says

19 Jul 2025

ROME (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Pope Leo on Friday, the Vatican said, a day after an Israeli strike on Gaza’s sole Catholic church killed three people and injured several more. During the call, the pope renewed his appeal for a ceasefire and an end to the war in Gaza, and expressed his …

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