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In the early hours of Thursday, first responders were seen clearing rubble from residential areas across the city. Doctors say some of the wounded are children. Rescuers pulled one man from the rubble, but he did not survive. Several floors of a student residence were destroyed in the attack. “The enemy had been attacking Zaporizhzhia and Zaporizhzhia district for several hours. A dormitory was hit — several floors there have been destroyed,” regional governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on his social media page. Search and rescue operations are continuing, according to the head of the Zaporizhzhia regional administration.
All 25,000 international tourists who were in Jamaica when Hurricane Melissa made landfall on 28 October are accounted for and in good health, according to tourism minister Edmund Bartlett. Hundreds are still waiting for flights out of the country as airports were closed by what quickly became the strongest storm in the world this year, as well as the worst to hit Jamaica in decades. It has caused severe damage and flooding on the island, as well as neighbouring Caribbean nations such as Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Jamaica airport reopens with continued cancellations Jamaica shut its two main…
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Is the average European worker’s dream to become a clerk in the Netherlands? There’s no study to prove it, but one thing’s clear: no other group of employees in Europe feels happier with their pay. Dutch administrative and support services workers have the lowest complaint rate about their pay, at only 14.5%, followed by Netherlands-based utility workers (like engineers, electricians, plumbers, waste management operators) at 17%, and Dutch civil servants with 23%. That’s according to a major study on 16,000 workers in 16 European countries and 15 working sectors by SD Worx, a pan-European HR firm. But the same can’t…
Published on 30/10/2025 – 11:12 GMT+1 After a strong showing in Wednesday’s election, Rob Jetten, the leader of the centrist liberal D66 party, could become the country’s youngest and first openly gay prime minister. With 98% of the vote counted, the 38-year-old’s party is projected to win 26 seats in the 150-seat Dutch parliament, an increase of 11 from the previous election. As of Thursday morning, the D66 were neck-and-neck with Geert Wilders’ far-right Party for Freedom, who are also projected to gain 26 seats. The difference between them was a little over 2,000 votes nationwide. Jetten, who cut a…
By AP with Una Hajdari Published on 30/10/2025 – 11:05 GMT+1 Microsoft beat forecasts on both sales and profit in the last quarter, posting $77.7 billion (€6.62bn) in revenue and $30.8bn (€26.52bn) in income. The firm nonetheless surprised some investors by the scale of its spending on cloud and AI infrastructure, sending shares down more than 3% after hours. Microsoft’s results also came as the company’s Azure services recovered from an outage on Wednesday. The tech giant said it spent nearly $35bn (€30.13bn) in the July to September quarter on capital expenditures to support AI and cloud demand. Nearly half of…
The arrests took place in and around Paris, Beccuau said. She added that if the stolen goods — which have not been found — are returned, judiciary authorities “will take that into account” and reduce sentences of any suspects found guilty. Beccuau told reporters at a press conference Wednesday that two other suspects arrested Saturday had partially admitted involvement in the theft. The duo was identified by DNA traces left on an abandoned scooter and on the window they allegedly broke. Both men are in their 30s and hail from the northeast Parisian suburb of Aubervilliers, Beccuau told reporters. One is…
US President Donald Trump was returning to Washington after a face-to-face meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, the final day of a trip to Asia that provided an opportunity for the leaders of the world’s two largest economies to stabilise relations after months of turmoil over trade issues. Washington and Beijing are “in agreement on many things”, Trump said after the meeting that lasted a little over 100 minutes, with the two leaders emerging from the front door and talking briefly. Shortly after, both leaders departed the meeting venue, and Trump was back aboard Air Force One to…
The white ghost of the Mediterranean forest. This is how Ángel Hidalgo, an amateur nature photographer, has described his latest find while reviewing the images from one of his photo-trapping cameras, placed in the depths of one of Jaén’s mountain ranges in southern Spain. Hidalgo has managed to record an Iberian lynx with leucism, a genetic condition that causes a partial or total lack of pigmentation in its skin, although not in the eyes, as would occur in the case of albino animals. According to local media ‘Ahora Jaén’, this unprecedented discovery took place on 22 October in the province…