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Blackouts throughout Ukraine after wave of Russian attacks
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Russia has carried out a wave of missile assaults throughout Ukrainian cities, killing at the least 5 individuals and inflicting new disruptions in energy provides, significantly in Kyiv and Kharkiv areas, officers mentioned.
“Sadly, there have been hits on power infrastructure,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned in his nightly video handle on Saturday. “On this connection, essentially the most troublesome state of affairs is in Kharkiv area and Kyiv area.”
Emergency blackouts had been utilized in “most areas” of Ukraine on Saturday as a result of raids, Vitality Minister German Galushchenko mentioned. “At the moment the enemy attacked the nation’s power era services and energy grid once more. There are assaults in Kharkiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhia, Vinnytsia and Kyiv areas,” Galushchenko mentioned on Fb.
“Because of the shelling, emergency blackouts have been launched in most areas,” the minister mentioned.
Within the east-central metropolis of Dnipro, 20 individuals had been rescued from an house block the place a whole part of the constructing had been lowered to rubble, sending smoke billowing into the sky, the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential workplace mentioned.
“Tragedy. I’ve gone to the positioning. … We shall be going by the rubble all evening,” mentioned Borys Filatov, mayor of the rocket-making metropolis on the Dnieper River.
5 individuals had been killed, and at the least 60 individuals, together with 12 youngsters, had been additionally wounded within the assault, with extra individuals nonetheless trapped beneath the rubble, the regional governor mentioned.
Photos confirmed firefighters placing out a blaze across the carcasses of some automobiles in Dnipro. A broad chunk of the house block was lacking. The outside of the remainder of the constructing was badly broken. Wounded individuals had been carried away on stretchers.
UK pledges tanks to Ukraine
In his nightly speech, Zelenskyy reiterated that Russian assaults on civilian targets could possibly be stopped provided that Ukraine’s Western companions equipped the required weapons.
“What’s wanted for this? The form of weapons that our companions have in stockpiles and that our warriors have come to anticipate. The entire world is aware of what and methods to cease those that are sowing loss of life,” he mentioned.
Saturday’s assault comes as Western powers think about sending battle tanks to Kyiv and forward of a gathering of Ukraine’s allies in Ramstein in Germany subsequent Friday, the place governments will announce their newest pledges of army assist.
On Saturday, United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged to offer tanks and artillery techniques to Kyiv.
The assaults
The barrage of assaults on Saturday got here after a smaller-scale missile assault hit crucial infrastructure within the capital Kyiv and the jap metropolis of Kharkiv.
DTEK, the largest non-public electrical energy firm, launched emergency blackouts in a number of areas.
The Ukrainian Air Power mentioned it had shot down 25 of 38 Russian missiles of various varieties.
Missiles struck crucial infrastructure services within the jap area of Kharkiv and the western area of Lviv, officers mentioned. Kharkiv area misplaced energy fully, and disruptions to electrical energy and water provides in Lviv had been additionally doable, officers mentioned.
Moldova’s inside ministry mentioned missile particles had been discovered within the north of the nation close to the Ukraine border following the air raids.
Saturday’s assaults got here as Ukrainian and Russian forces battled for management of Soledar, a small salt-mining city in jap Ukraine that for days has been the main target of a relentless Russian assault.
Ukraine insisted that its forces had been battling to carry onto management of Soledar however acknowledged the state of affairs was troublesome, that road combating was raging, and that Russian forces had been advancing from numerous instructions.
Russia mentioned on Friday that its forces had taken management of the city with a pre-war inhabitants of 10,000, in what can be a minor advance however one holding psychological significance for Russian forces who’ve suffered months of battlefield setbacks.
Al Jazeera couldn’t instantly confirm the state of affairs in Soledar.
Russia has been focusing on Ukraine’s power infrastructure with missiles and drones since October, inflicting sweeping blackouts and disruptions to central heating and operating water.
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Trudeau called out by steelworker who refuses to shake his hand during blunt exchange: 'Don't believe you'
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got an earful during a photo op from a cash-strapped steelworker who told the leader his policies have left his family scratching to make ends meet.
Footage of the tense exchange in Sault Ste. Marie, a city in Ontario, which was obtained by CTV News, went viral. The unidentified worker spurned Trudeau’s offer of doughnuts to complain about high taxes, medical bills and giveaways to people he deemed “lazy.”
“The 25% tariffs we just brought in is going to help you out … that’s going to keep your job,” Trudeau told the man.
“What about the 40% taxes I am paying? And I don’t have a doctor,” the employee of Algoma Steel shot back.
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Trudeau responded by saying that a multimillion-dollar investment from the Canadian government meant the man would have a job “for many years to come.” The man responded by saying that he expected Trudeau to be voted out.
“That’s what elections are for,” said the Liberal Party leader, who stayed calm and collected during the exchange. “I look forward to everyone exercising the right to vote. … We are going to invest in you and your job.”
“I don’t believe you for a second,” the steelworker shot back.
The man also mentioned that he felt unemployed Canadians got better access to affordable health care than he did after Trudeau referenced an initiative to help hundreds of thousands of Canadians get dental care.
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“Probably like my neighbor who doesn’t go to work because she’s lazy?” the steelworker asked.
“You know what? Most Canadians try to stick up for each other, and that’s what we’ve got to keep doing,” Trudeau responded before wishing the man good luck. At the end, the laborer appeared to refuse a handshake from Trudeau.
The next federal election in Canada is set to take place on Oct. 20, 2025. Trudeau’s government has been scrutinized amid a cost-of-living crisis affecting the country, though Trudeau has remained optimistic.
“Inflation came down last month, beating out expectations,” the prime minister wrote in a Facebook post on July 17. “But, until Canadians can feel that relief in their wallets, at the grocery store, and on their mortgages, the job’s not done.”
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Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, center, is shown during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not pictured, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on Sept. 22, 2023. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to Trudeau’s office for comment.
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Taiwan court orders release of ex-Taipei mayor arrested in corruption probe
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Taiwan People’s Party leader Ko Wen-je freed after court finds insufficient evidence to justify his detention.
A court in Taiwan has ordered the release of a former mayor and presidential candidate who was arrested over his alleged role in a corruption scandal, citing insufficient evidence for his detention.
Taipei District Court on Monday ruled that Ko Wen-je, a former mayor of Taipei and the leader of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), should go free after finding that prosecutors had failed to make the case for his detention.
The court said prosecutors had not met the standard of there being a “high possibility” Ko had committed a crime.
“It cannot be concluded that the defendant… knowingly violated the law,” the court said in its ruling.
Ko was arrested on Saturday as part of a probe into alleged corruption in the redevelopment of the Core Pacific City shopping centre in the Taiwanese capital.
Ko, who came third in January’s presidential election, told reporters outside court that there was “no evidence” of his involvement in the real estate scandal.
A surgeon by training, Ko entered politics in 2014 when he successfully ran for the mayorship of Taipei as an independent candidate.
Re-elected as mayor of Taipei in 2018, he founded the TPP the following year as a third force to challenge the dominance of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and China-leaning Kuomintang (KMT).
Under the TPP banner, Ko received about one-quarter of the vote in the last presidential election, which was won by the DPP’s William Lai Ching-te.
While the TPP has only eight legislators in Taiwan’s 113-seat parliament, the party has gained outsized influence as both the DPP and KMT lack a ruling majority.
Ko, who draws much of his support from young people, is widely seen as a contender for the next election in 2028, although his popularity has been dented by a separate campaign funds scandal.
On Thursday, Ko said he would take a three-month leave of absence from the TPP leadership to take responsibility for the misreporting of campaign money and the use of election subsidies to set up a personal office space.
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