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Overnight News Digest: The recycling plastic problem is getting worse [1]

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Date: 2022-10-24

BBC

The Russian military is sending in more troops and preparing the streets for defence, he said, adding that the removal of citizens is a pretence to save face in case the city falls to Ukraine.

Kyrylo Budanov, the Ukrainian intelligence chief, dismissed this as an "information operation", telling the Ukrayinska Pravda website Moscow was "trying to create the illusion that everything is lost".

Russian authorities in the city have ordered thousands of civilians to evacuate.

Russia took Kherson in the early days of the war, but has recently come under pressure as Ukrainian troops advance along the Dnipro River.

Russia is sending more troops into the key southern city of Kherson and may be preparing to defend it, Ukraine's spy chief has said.

Reuters

The students told officers a shooter was inside with a "long gun," Sack said. Police entered and exchanged gunfire with the suspect, who appeared to be about 20 years old, fatally wounding him, he added.

Students were fleeing the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School when police arrived at 9:10 a.m. (1410 GMT) to answer an active shooter call, Commissioner Mike Sack told a news conference.

Oct 24 (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at a St. Louis, Missouri, high school on Monday, killing two people and wounding six others before officers fatally shot the suspect, the city's police commissioner said.

Reuters

The violence erupted when Israeli security officers who had entered the town of Nablus were spotted by Palestinian security officers and militants, according to a spokesman for the Palestinian Fatah movement.

One of the men who died was unarmed, according to Palestinian health and security officials, who said several Palestinian gunmen were also wounded.

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Three Palestinians were killed during a firefight with Israeli security forces who had entered a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said.

The Guardian

A man has been charged with the murder of a 15-year-old Aboriginal teenager in Perth, who police allege died from head injuries after being bashed with a metal pole. Police said teenager Cassius Turvey and a group of friends were approached by a 21-year-old man while walking home from school in Middle Swan on Perth’s outskirts on 13 October. The man got out of a black Ford Ranger ute he was a passenger in before allegedly attacking Turvey with a metal pole. Police said the accused man had damage to his vehicle a day prior to the assault.

The Guardian

Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, has told western counterparts that the war in Ukraine is heading for an “uncontrolled escalation” amid evidence that the Kremlin is weighing how to respond to yet another anticipated battlefield defeat around the key southern city of Kherson. With Russian troops setting up new defences for a fresh Ukrainian offensive in Luhansk in the country’s east as well, Moscow appears to be preparing the ground for yet further escalation, with discredited claims that Kyiv may be preparing to use a dirty bomb as a “false-flag operation” to blame Russia. Refuting the Russian allegation, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview on Monday: “The allegation that Ukraine is preparing to use dirty bombs in Ukraine is absurd.”

The Guardian

he gargantuan UPS Worldport is the largest automated packaging sorting facility in the world. Covering 5.2m sq ft in Louisville, Kentucky, with 70 aircraft docks and 155 miles of conveyor belts, the site is larger than the Mall of America, employs around 20,000 workers and is capable of handling 115 packages a second. But for all its impressive stats, working conditions at UPS Worldport have recently come under scrutiny in the wake of a recent workplace suicide of a pregnant worker, with claims from workers that she had recently been fired. No one can ever know the true reason why someone takes their life. Workplace suicides in the US have risen dramatically in recent years and reached a record level in 2019, the last year for which the Bureau of Labor Statistics has data. The worker’s death, which happened on 5 October, is under investigation by Louisville Metro police.

Al Jazeera

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has criticised Israel’s neutrality in the Ukraine war, saying the decision by its leaders not to support Kyiv with weaponry has encouraged Russia’s military partnership with Iran. Addressing a conference on Monday organised by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, Zelenskyy repeated his request for Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile technology to thwart Russian strikes. Ukraine’s army is beating the Russians on the battlefield, “but unfortunately we do not have our own Iron Dome. We still do not have a modern and effective air defence and missile defence system that could secure our skies.” he said by video link.

Al Jazeera

Brazil’s presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said he hopes his far-right rival, incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, will accept an election loss, as Brazilian voters prepare to head to the polls in less than a week. Lula said during a news conference in Sao Paulo on Monday that if he were to win the tightly fought contest, he hoped Bolsonaro “will have a moment of sanity and phone me to accept the election result”. “If Bolsonaro loses and he wants to cry … I lost three elections,” said Lula, who served two terms as president from 2003 to 2010. “Each time I lost, I went home. I didn’t keep cursing, being agitated.” Brazilians will go back to the polls on October 30, after a first round of voting on October 2 saw Lula beat Bolsonaro but fall short of what he needed to avoid a second round.

NPR

The Justice Department has announced charges against 13 people, including suspected Chinese intelligence officers, in three separate cases that involve various alleged plots to advance Chinese interests in the United States. The prosecutions are the latest example of the Justice Department's efforts to combat what U.S. officials say is a relentless effort by Beijing to steal American secrets and technology, and to covertly push China's interests in the United States. "As these cases demonstrate, the government of China sought to interfere with the rights and freedoms of individuals in the United States and to undermine our judicial system that protects those rights," Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a news conference. "They did not succeed."

CNN

CNN — Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday agreed to temporarily freeze a lower court order requiring the testimony of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in front of an Atlanta-area special grand jury that is investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state. Thomas acted alone because he has jurisdiction of the lower court that issued the original order. Thomas’ move is an administrative stay that was most likely issued Monday to give the Supreme Court justices more time to consider the dispute.

Tonight I’m disgusted with the news, particularly the US news. This happened over the freeway in L.A. yesterday. It’s getting worse by the day.

x Today in LA. Hmm. Remember how the Blues Brothers handled neo-Nazis on a bridge? I do. pic.twitter.com/TTGxXUKxm9 — Tom Morello (@tmorello) October 24, 2022

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