Russian air defenses intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones overnight over multiple regions of the country, as well as the occupied Crimean Peninsula and the Sea of Azov, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said Tuesday.

The deployment of AI-enabled gun turrets comes as Ukraine struggles to defend against Russian jet-powered drones.

A surge in Russian jet-powered drone strikes on Ukrainian data centers has increasingly disrupted mobile phone and Internet services for thousands of people. Now Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other government officials are warning of the need for more air defense capabilities as such telecommunication outages could threaten Ukraine’s digital economy and undermine the country’s ongoing resistance to Russia’s invasion.

In this report, the Kyiv Independent’s Asami Terajima and Nick Allard join a Ukrainian volunteer air defense team defending Kyiv as Russia intensifies its drone attacks on the capital.

Belgium-born scientist Francis Halzen awarded prize for pioneering work on how to detect neutrinos in a giant ice cube

Belgian-born scientist Francis Halzen has won the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that offer clues to the universe's evolution. Speaking from Italy, Halzen

"His tenacity and scientific vision has paved the way for a new kind of astronomy", the Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics said in a release.

Belgian-American Particle physicist Francis Halzen ⁠won ⁠the 2026 Nobel Prize in ⁠Physics for "decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the ​discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin",

According to U.S. and British officials, 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from RAF Fairford air base were withdrawn because of the risk of a drone attack ordered by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The U.S. Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a U.S.-run military air base in England used to strike Iran following an investigation into a planned terror attack at the RAF Fairford bas

The United States moved all of its long-range bombers stationed in the United Kingdom back to their American home bases on Sunday after an unspecified new threat, according to a US official. It comes days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed.

A statement says all bombers deployed to RAF Fairford have been "re-deployed to their home stations" in the US.

Health Minister Aden Duale said a Kenyan citizen who arrived in the country on Saturday from Congo via Uganda had been isolated and treated at Nairobi Hospital. The patient tested positive for the Ebola virus after developing symptoms associated with hemorrhagic fever.

Based on the presentation and history of travel, the doctors considered his case to be viral fever and collected samples for testing, which turned positive for Ebola ,” Duale said. Kenya’s first Ebola case comes as health workers in DR Congo struggle to contain the country’s worst outbreak of the virus,

Health authorities in Kenya confirmed an Ebola infection in a traveler who recently arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo, marking the first imported case linked to the outbreak in central Africa.

Kenya has ‌recorded its first confirmed Ebola case, a Kenyan citizen who has been living in Democratic Republic ​of Congo and arrived in Nairobi ​on Saturday, health minister Aden Duale ⁠said.

Spain’s government on Tuesday approved urgent measures on the country's housing crisis, after an outbreak of violence the night before in the coastal city of Barcelona saw tens of thousands taking to the streets.

Protestors clashed with police as thousands took to the streets of the Spanish city of Barcelona Monday to protest against the housing shortage in the country.

Protesters clashed with police in Barcelona on Monday, hours after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a Nov. 29 general election after his government suffered

Pedro Sánchez is gambling that anger over high rents and toward right-wing lawmakers who blocked legislation will galvanize support for his socialist party.

Russia's health watchdog said on Tuesday that no ​cases of plague had been ‌detected among people who had come into contact with a Siberian plague ​institute laboratory worker who ​died on Friday.

Russian authorities say a staffer at a plague research institute in Siberia contracted pneumonia of an unknown cause, and local state TV reported the woman died last week. Authorities said they

The case has raised alarm in Russia after unconfirmed media reports suggested she might have died of pneumonic plague.

Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia of an “unknown” cause. Local state TV