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Russia’s biggest airstrike in weeks piles pressure on Ukraine power grid

Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian missiles and drones struck nearly a dozen Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities on Wednesday, causing serious damage at three Soviet-era thermal power plants and blackouts in multiple regions, officials said. Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 39 of 55 missiles and 20 of 21 attack drones used for the attack, which […]

Major Russian air strikes destroy Kyiv power plant, damage other stations

Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian missiles and drones destroyed a large electricity plant near Kyiv and hit power facilities in several regions of Ukraine on Thursday, officials said, ramping up pressure on the embattled energy system as Kyiv runs low on air defences. The major attack more than two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion completely destroyed […]

Japan’s SLIM Moon craft short on power after successful lunar landing

Tokyo, Japan Reuters Japan on Saturday became the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the Moon, but solar power issues threatened to cut short the nation’s mission to prove a “precision” landing technology and revitalise a space program that has suffered setbacks. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said its Smart Lander for Investigating […]

The struggle to save the tropical plants of Kyiv’s Botanical Garden

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Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters In the lush greenhouses of Kyiv’s National Botanical Garden, staff are struggling to save a decades-old collection of tropical plants after months of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid led to electricity outages, threatening the garden’s heating supply. Liudmyla Buiun, head of Tropical and Subtropical Plants Department, stands near a barrel with […]

Fog-shrouded Kyiv recovers after Russia strikes, power restored to six million

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Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Basic services were being restored in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Saturday after the latest wave of Russian air strikes on critical infrastructure, as residents navigated a city gripped by fog and girded for a holiday season marked by uncertainty. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a quarter of Kyiv remained without heating but that […]

Countries set out 12 month plan to speed up industry emission cuts

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London, UK Reuters Countries representing more than half of the global economy on Friday specified the steps they will take to help accelerate the low-carbon transition by cutting emissions in sectors including power, transport and steel. Announced at the COP27 climate talks in the coastal Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the United States, Germany, Japan […]

Tuvalu, sinking in the Pacific, fears becoming a superpower “pawn”

Tuvalu Foreign Minister Simon Kofe COP26

Sydney, Australia Reuters Tuvalu fears that climate change, an existential threat to the Pacific nation, is being forgotten and it worries that fellow island nations could become “pawns” in a global competition between China and the United States, its foreign minister said. Simon Kofe told Reuters the superpower competition was a concern, distracting attention from […]

No lights, no heat, no money – that’s life in Ukraine during cyber warfare

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Reuters Hackers who defaced and interrupted access to numerous Ukrainian Government websites on Friday could be setting the stage for more serious cyberattacks that would disrupt the lives of ordinary Ukrainians, experts said.  “As tensions grow, we can expect more aggressive cyber activity in Ukraine and potentially elsewhere,” said John Hultquist, an intelligence analyst at US […]