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Polish military pilots can now fire at unidentified drones and missiles based solely on radar and tracking data, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said.
1 independent sources · 30% confidenceA shallow magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck near Patras on Friday evening; no injuries or damage have been reported.
3 independent sources · 88% confidenceA 58-year-old German tourist was killed by a lightning strike near Lindos on Rhodes during an autumn storm; her husband was slightly hurt.
6 independent sources · 98% confidenceRussian forces hit Mykolaiv with Shahed drones and an Iskander-M missile, injuring three men, two of whom remain in hospital in serious condition.
4 independent sources · 97% confidenceThieves who broke into a weapons shop in Innsbruck fled across the German border, prompting a manhunt and a warning to the public.
2 independent sources · 69% confidenceTelegram channels say a Russian Su-35 fighter mistook a Mi-8 helicopter for a drone and shot it down on 1 October, killing its three-man crew.
2 independent sources · 74% confidenceFour workers were hurt, one critically with severe burns, when a controlled blast went wrong at a granite quarry in Pontevedra province on Friday.
5 independent sources · 98% confidenceRussian guided bombs that hit two Kharkiv districts on Friday killed two women and injured 36 people, including two children, Ukraine's interior ministry said.
7 independent sources · 88% confidenceLatvia's armed forces are monitoring the country's airspace and territorial waters more closely with NATO allies during this week's parliamentary election.
3 independent sources · 73% confidenceA sixth miner died in a separate illegal mine collapse on Turkey's Black Sea coast the same day, officials said.
8 independent sources · 98% confidenceBorder police evacuated passengers and staff from Moldova's main airport for a second time in three days on Saturday after another bomb alert proved false.
20 independent sources · 98% confidenceA telephoned bomb threat emptied the Ursulinen school complex in Mechelen, Belgium, on Friday afternoon; explosives-dog searches found nothing suspicious.
4 independent sources · 97% confidenceAn explosion blew out windows and badly damaged a commercial building in Oslo's Økern district on Friday afternoon, lightly injuring one person.
3 independent sources · 83% confidenceThe US has redirected $52 million earmarked for Slovakia, North Macedonia, Tunisia and Iraq to four Latin American countries, the Washington Post reported.
6 independent sources · 40% confidenceGerman police released two of three men detained on suspicion of planning an armed attack in North Rhine-Westphalia; a third remains in custody.
3 independent sources · 88% confidenceLatvia's defence ministry has pushed back against reports that Latvia was shut out of discussions on NATO's future, calling it an exaggeration.
6 independent sources · 68% confidenceA Russian FPV drone struck a moving passenger bus in Kramatorsk on Friday morning, part of a wider overnight attack that killed two and injured 27 across Ukraine.
3 independent sources · 88% confidenceEuropean Council leadership has voiced support for freeing reserves of diesel and crude oil after President Trump pressed EU states to act on soaring fuel prices.
17 independent sources · 98% confidenceAn 85-year-old woman died after a fire broke out in her home in Sidirokastro, in Greece's Serres region, before dawn on Friday, officials said.
3 independent sources · 93% confidenceA man in his 30s was shot and seriously wounded in Norrahammar, near Jönköping, on Thursday night; no one has been arrested.
3 independent sources · 83% confidenceOvernight storms cut power to parts of Castellón's coast and triggered a flood pre-emergency alert as the region stayed under a red rain warning.
6 independent sources · 98% confidenceGerman and British media say Russian national Oleg Levushkin organised the failed drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport, with ties to the GRU.
31 independent sources · 98% confidenceA Russian overnight attack damaged a civilian enterprise in Ukraine's Rivne region, sparking a fire that forced the evacuation of nearby residents.
3 independent sources · 83% confidenceA moderate earthquake struck near Petrinja in central Croatia on Friday morning and was felt in Zagreb, with no reports of damage or injuries.
3 independent sources · 88% confidenceA fire tore through Adana's Vedat Dalokay market complex on Thursday evening, damaging 22 businesses before firefighters brought it under control.
4 independent sources · 87% confidencePolice in Terrassa are hunting a fourth suspect, said to be the father of three men already arrested, after two Civil Guard officers were shot a day earlier.
12 independent sources · 98% confidenceAn object, possibly a drone, crashed near Plauru in Romania's Tulcea county and started a fire, though radar detected no airspace breach.
15 independent sources · 98% confidenceA Médecins Sans Frontières worker infected with Ebola was flown to the Netherlands on a French private jet and taken under military escort to a hospital in Leiden.
3 independent sources · 83% confidenceA drone attack on the Russian city of Volgograd set fire to a block of flats in the early hours of 2 October, injuring one person, regional governor Andrei Bocharov said.
18 independent sources · 98% confidenceNearly 6,000 people have been detained and police have opened ten new investigations into the crackdown on nationwide school protests that have injured hundreds since mid-September.
68 independent sources · 98% confidence