Russia hit Ukraine with a nighttime barrage of 18 missiles, killing two people in Pavlohrad and a 14-year-old boy in the Chernihiv region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Forty other people were injured in Pavlohrad. Zelenskiy also said the 14-year-boy killed in the northern region of Chernihiv died close to his school when the building was hit by a bomb.
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Mutinous soldiers in Gabon ousted president whose family has ruled for 55 years
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba was under house arrest, hours after he was declared the winner in an election that extended his family’s 55-year reign in the oil-rich Central African nation. Gabon’s people celebrate his potential ouster because Bongo’s family has been accused of getting rich on the country’s resource wealth while many of its citizens struggle to scrape by.
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A magnitude 6.3 aftershock struck southern Turkey
A magnitude 6.3 aftershock struck southern Turkey Monday, killing at least three people and injuring hundreds more. Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD) officials said that the quake struck Turkey’s southern Hatay province, near the Syrian border. The quake’s epicenter was in the province’s Defne district. Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said that there have been 26 aftershocks since two weeks after a massive earthquake killed tens of thousands of people in both countries.
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Israel launched airstrikes
Israel launched airstrikes targeting alleged weapons manufacturing and storage sites in Gaza on Thursday, following a rocket attack from the coastal enclave. In a statement, The Israel Defense Forces said fighter jets struck a weapons manufacturing site in central Gaza owned by Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that runs Gaza.
