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Ukrainian drones downed near Crimea and Moscow
Thirteen drones in total were aimed at Moscow and Sevastopol in Crimea, the Russian Defence Ministry said, on Thursday alone.
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‘Most disastrous’ data breach in Northern Ireland history to send officers scrambling for cover
Dozens of officers who assist MI5 with the security services in Northern Ireland have had their rank, name and unit published online.
- by Neil Johnston and James Crisp
Sweden’s bold plan to build a new ‘city’ out of wood
The southern suburbs of Stockholm are about to become a beacon of wooden architecture on a global scale.
- by Rob Harris
Britain’s ‘wonkiest pub’ stood for 260 years. Now it’s a pile of rubble
Two weeks after the sale of the historic Crooked House pub to a private company was announced, it was gutted by fire. Locals now want it rebuilt brick by brick.
- by Lucy Cormack
Paris racing to clean up the Seine River in time for Olympics
Untreated wastewater flows in Paris’ Seine River have been in the spotlight following unprecedented heavy summer rain.
- by Latika Bourke
Hostile actors hack Britain’s electoral commission
Electoral security has emerged as a key issue in many countries since US officials found Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to boost Donald Trump’s White House campaign.
- by Sachin Ravikumar
Counting casualties on the battlefield amid Russia’s war on Ukraine
More than 500 days after Russian forces launched their illegal invasion of Ukraine, the number of soldiers killed or injured on both sides has been said to run into the hundreds of thousands. But counting casualties is an imperfect science.
- by Lucy Cormack
British government moves asylum-seekers to a barge moored off England’s coast
People arriving via unauthorised “can’t expect to stay in a four-star hotel”, Home Office Minister Sarah Dines told the BBC.
- by Danica Kirka
Ex-shop assistant detained over plot to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
“The perpetrator tried to establish the time and list of locations of the approximate route of the head of state,” Ukraine’s intelligence agency said.
- by David L. Stern and Siobhán O'Grady
Italian cheese maker, 72, crushed to death under mountain of cheese
Giacomo Chiapparini was checking on a robot that automatically rotates the cheeses to help them mature when a shelf suddenly collapsed.
- by Nick Squires
‘Space for everyone’: Russia to launch first moon lander since 1976
Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft is on a timetable that implies it could match or narrowly beat its Indian rival to the moon’s surface.
- by Mark Trevelyan and Lidia Kelly