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00:00At least three people, including one child, were killed in a Russian drone strike on Ukraine's
00:07Sumy.
00:11Israel's military spokesperson claims a bunker full of cash and gold belonging to Hezbollah
00:16was found under a hospital in Beirut.
00:21The former Albanian President Ilir Mehta has been forcefully arrested in Tirana on alleged
00:26corruption charges.
00:32Storm Oscar reaches Cuba amid massive power outages that left millions without electricity.
00:46At least three people, including one child, were killed in a Russian drone strike on the
00:50city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, officials said on Tuesday.
00:55The attack was part of a mass overnight strike on Ukraine and targeted a residential neighborhood
01:01and critical infrastructure, according to the regional governor.
01:07Forty-five explosions were recorded in the Sumy region and the Ukrainian military's head
01:12air defenses destroyed 42 out of 60 drones launched by Russia over several parts of Ukraine.
01:21Russia's defense ministry released footage claiming to show combat work in Ukraine's
01:26Donetsk region.
01:27Meanwhile, Ukraine also launched a drone attack hitting several areas around Russia, including
01:33a biochemical plant and two distilleries.
01:37Russia's defense ministry said on Tuesday that it shot down several Ukrainian drones
01:41over the Bryansk, Belgorod and Kursk regions.
01:50Israel's military spokesperson, Daniel Hagari, claims Israeli intelligence discovered a bunker
01:55belonging to former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah under a hospital in southern Beirut.
02:02He said the bunker, reportedly under the al-Sahel hospital in Beirut's Tahiyeh neighborhood,
02:07holds millions of dollars in gold and cash.
02:10This comes as Israel accuses Iran of sending money by planes to Iran's embassy in Beirut
02:16before sending it to Hezbollah.
02:47Israeli strikes hit several branches of a financial institution linked to Hezbollah
02:52in recent days, but Hagari said it won't strike the al-Sahel hospital.
02:57Meanwhile, an Israeli strike near Beirut's Rafik Hariri University Hospital killed at
03:03least four and injured 32 late on Monday, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
03:09It was the first strike on the Lebanese capital in 10 days.
03:17The former Albanian President Ilir Meta has been forcefully arrested in Tirana on alleged
03:22corruption charges.
03:25Meta has previously been under investigation for allegedly hiding wealth as well as illegal
03:30lobbying in the United States.
03:33Meta has denied the allegations against him.
03:37There are three accusations.
03:39One is corruption, misappropriation of products and the other is something else.
03:48Meta is the leader of Albania's left-wing Freedom Party and served as the country's
03:52president from 2017 until 2022.
03:57He has been a vocal opponent of the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama, accusing it of
04:02running a kleptocratic regime.
04:05The President of the Democratic Party believes Rama orchestrated the arrest and believes
04:10he targets his political opponents.
04:12The Prime Minister has denied this.
04:15Corruption has marred Albanian politics since the fall of communism, hindering the country's
04:20democratic, economic and social development.
04:27Moldovan President Maya Sandu denounced vote-buying in the constitutional referendum on the country's
04:33EU accession, which the pro-Europe side won by a narrow margin, 50.4% versus 49.6%.
04:43Sandu claims that 130,000 people have been paid to vote no by criminal entities, with
04:50voters instructed on how to cast their ballots.
04:53There are people who just sold their votes and in any democracy it's normal to have people
05:03who have different views.
05:05What's not normal is to have a situation where criminal groups are bribing voters.
05:11I'm blaming the criminal groups who are using the dirty money to buy the Moldovan votes.
05:19Sandu did not mention Russia or any other foreign actor.
05:23She only envisaged dirty interference trying to block Moldova's path towards EU membership.
05:29But despite her claims, the presidency is not showing any evidence of electoral corruption.
05:35Moldova's main opposition considers instead that it was Sandu's lack of credibility that
05:39dragged down the result of the EU referendum.
05:44The International Election Observation Mission did not report any evidence of vote theft
05:49and corruption at the polling station.
05:51But its report underlines various forms of manipulative interferences to destabilize
05:57the country, elicit financing of political actors, disinformation campaigns and cyber
06:02attacks.
06:03There have also been multifold statements from simple citizens who say, well, quick
06:09money for poor people, that is something that I take.
06:12So that is not something that is hear and say only, but is very concrete.
06:20The European Commission said it had witnessed unprecedented interference by Russia in Moldova
06:26and that Moscow aims to destabilize the country.
06:35Heavy rainfall swept across Cuba as Tropical Storm Oscar made landfall.
06:41It comes as the country's capital has been largely paralyzed by massive blackouts, leaving
06:4610 million people without electricity.
06:57The power outage caused unrest for many.
07:00Cuba is in the middle of an economic crisis and many already suffer from food, water,
07:05medicine and fuel shortages.
07:08As a result, the prolonged blackouts led to a handful of small protests.
07:35The Cuban government has a low tolerance for civil disobedience and President Miguel
07:40Díaz-Canel warned protesters that they would not allow any vandalism.
07:49The French Transport Minister François Durevray vowed to make roads safer for everyone after
07:55meeting with cycling associations.
07:58It follows the death of 27-year-old cyclist Bovary, who was allegedly deliberately hit
08:04by an SUV last week.
08:34The tragedy has reignited national debates on road safety and cyclist protection as France
08:40sees an increasing number of cyclists in its urban centers.
08:44Tributes in several cities were paid to the young cyclist, who was known to be a dedicated
08:49advocate for urban cycling.
08:59The idea of outsourcing the detention of migrants outside the European Union is gaining
09:04ground in the political debate.
09:06The principle of these return centers, supported by around 10 member states, was raised last
09:12week at the European Summit.
09:14The President of the European Commission presented the project as one of the innovative ways
09:18of dealing with migration issues.
09:21Arsela von der Leyen admits, however, that she does not have all the answers.
09:51The proposal is causing controversy amongst the member states, with Spain making no secret
10:03of its opposition.
10:06Some analysts believe that if the political will is there to create these centers, the
10:11legal implementation will pose a number of problems.
10:21Human rights NGOs are sounding the alarm.
10:45They believe that the consequences will be painful for asylum seekers.
10:49Every time we've seen this kind of scheme in practice, we've seen prolonged arbitrary
10:53detention.
10:54We've seen people separated from their families.
10:56We've seen people in an unbearable legal limbo, children and other groups in vulnerable situations
11:01falling between the cracks.
11:02We've seen people at risk of being sent back to danger and to persecution.
11:06And we've seen people being denied the right to asylum with all of the legal safeguards
11:10that is required at the EU.
11:13The President of the Commission says she wants to learn the lessons from the agreement signed
11:17in 2023 between Italy and Albania.
11:21The agreement provides for adult men intercepted by the Italian Coast Guard to be sent to the
11:25Balkan country.
11:27But as soon as it was implemented last week, the protocol was already in trouble.
11:32The Italian courts decided at the weekend to invalidate the transfer of the first 12
11:37migrants.