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Ukraine's Prosecutor General has named four Russian commanders as suspects, in absentia, over a 2024 missile strike on Kryvyi Rih that wounded 10 people.
2 independent sources · 69% confidenceTurkey and the UN have arranged fresh talks with Russia and Ukraine on a Black Sea ceasefire to protect grain shipments as food prices rise.
6 independent sources · 40% confidenceRussian forces struck Pavlohrad in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region on Thursday, wounding three people and setting fire to a coal company's administrative building.
3 independent sources · 88% confidencePresident Putin ruled out a ceasefire with Ukraine as the EU's defence chief warned a Russian strike on a European arms factory would trigger NATO's Article 5.
9 independent sources · 98% confidenceA large fire broke out at a waste sorting and recycling facility near Sibiu on Thursday evening, prompting a RO-Alert warning over heavy smoke.
9 independent sources · 98% confidenceA fire broke out at the Medikémia chemical site in Szeged, Hungary, burning solvents and cleaning products and producing a large smoke plume.
3 independent sources · 83% confidenceRussia's Investigative Committee says welding work carried out in breach of safety rules started the fire that gutted the historic Miller mansion in St Petersburg.
20 independent sources · 98% confidencePutin repeated his Kaliningrad weapons warning at the Valdai Forum as the UK proposed extending its nuclear deterrent to other Joint Expeditionary Force members.
24 independent sources · 98% confidenceFive miners remain trapped after a coal mine collapsed near Soma in Turkey's Manisa province, as rescue teams work to reach them.
4 independent sources · 98% confidenceRioters set off fireworks that destroyed two windows at Rhenen's town hall hours after the council voted to house 110 asylum seekers.
3 independent sources · 83% confidenceThe number of people unaccounted for after explosions at a chemical plant near Moscow has risen to five, Russian outlet Kommersant reports.
10 independent sources · 98% confidenceNATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned that Europe faces full-scale war and continuous hybrid attacks.
2 independent sources · 59% confidenceNATO said the Munster-based corps commands alliance forces defending the two Baltic states, as Secretary-General Mark Rutte visited Germany.
5 independent sources · 98% confidenceBritain targeted Russia-linked people, entities and ships while keeping exemptions for LNG deliveries to Japan and South Korea.
5 independent sources · 73% confidenceA forest fire near Tala in Cyprus's Paphos district burned about three hectares before firefighting aircraft and crews brought it under control.
4 independent sources · 97% confidenceTwo pilots from aircraft maker Elixir Aircraft died when their plane crashed near a military air base in Charente-Maritime, France.
4 independent sources · 98% confidenceFinnish authorities are investigating a significant number of suspected break-ins at members of parliament's homes.
4 independent sources · 87% confidenceMore than 411,000 students were left without classes as torrential rain persisted into a second day across eastern Spain.
14 independent sources · 98% confidenceInvestigators say the train reached 76mph before braking and hitting a stationary service near Elstow on 19 June.
5 independent sources · 98% confidenceFrench police detained 1,949 people and more than 300 officers and gendarmes were injured as high-school protests over staff shortages turned violent nationwide on Thursday.
29 independent sources · 98% confidenceA 't Ros Beiaard driver failed an alcohol test near the Buggenhout rail crossing where a crash killed four people in June, transport operator De Lijn said.
4 independent sources · 87% confidenceFour guided bombs hit central Sumy on 29 September, killing two people and injuring six, including three children, and damaging a 19th-century church, officials said.
4 independent sources · 93% confidenceA 52-year-old father died after jumping from a first-floor window to escape a fire that tore through four terraced homes in Dukinfield, Greater Manchester, on 10 September.
6 independent sources · 98% confidenceSvedala shut down its digital systems after a suspected ransomware breach, as public broadcaster Sveriges Radio raised the possibility of hybrid warfare.
3 independent sources · 83% confidenceWarsaw police detained a 15-year-old Ukrainian national after online monitoring flagged searches about an attack on a shopping centre.
4 independent sources · 98% confidenceA Russian drone struck the grounds of Kyiv's Institute for Nuclear Research on 30 September, but the facility's research reactor and safety systems were undamaged, Ukraine's nuclear regulator said.
6 independent sources · 98% confidenceA Latvian official said the US discusses NATO's future with the Baltic states through other formats after Latvia was excluded from a Pentagon-organised meeting in Poland.
25 independent sources · 98% confidenceRussian drones struck Kyiv's Southern Bridge five times in just over a day, deepening a transport crisis across the Ukrainian capital, mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
71 independent sources · 98% confidenceThe United States Department of Defense finalized the allocation of $400 million in military aid for Ukraine on the final day of fiscal year 2026.
2 independent sources · 59% confidenceTurkey issued a navigational telex for research vessel Oruc Reis to survey a pipeline route to the occupied territories.
4 independent sources · 87% confidence