NewsWhile you were sleeping: Global events from drone strikes to elections
While you were sleeping: Global events from drone strikes to elections
It happened while you were sleeping. Here's what global agencies recorded during the night from Sunday to Monday.
- The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced early Monday morning that three of its leaders were killed as a result of an Israeli attack on a residential block in downtown Beirut during the night from Sunday to Monday. The attack targeted a residential building in the Kola district, near a bustling artery full of shops and restaurants. According to witnesses, a drone struck one of the upper floors where the PFLP leaders were staying. Unofficial information from the Lebanese Civil Defence, cited by the Associated Press, suggests that a member of the Sunni group al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya, a political and military group allied with Hezbollah, was also killed.
- On Sunday evening, the election commission published the official results of the voting in the elections to the National Council, the lower house of the Austrian parliament. After counting the votes cast at polling stations, it was determined that the Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) came first with 28.8 per cent of the votes. The ruling Austrian People's Party (OeVP) came in second with 26.3 per cent of the votes. Representatives from the lists of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPOe), which received 21.1 per cent of the votes, New Austria and Liberal Forum (NEOS) – 9.2 per cent, and the Greens (Gruene) – 8.3 per cent, will also be seated in the National Council.
- During the night, from Sunday to Monday, Kyiv was attacked multiple times by waves of Russian drones. The air defence systems of the Ukrainian capital fended off these attacks for many hours, reported the Ukrainian army early Monday morning. Witnesses cited by Reuters spoke of numerous explosions and targets hit in the night sky.
- The SpaceX Crew-9 capsule, launched on Saturday from the Space Launch Complex-40, safely arrived at the International Space Station. Two astronauts, Nick Hague from NASA and Aleksandr Gorbunov from Roscosmos, were onboard. They will conduct a five-month scientific mission aboard the ISS. After the mission, they will return to Earth with a pair of American astronauts, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who arrived at the ISS in June aboard Boeing's Starliner.
