Category World News

On Monday, September 1, 2018, this is how things are going.

Fighting

• Regional governors reported that at least five people were killed by Russian attacks on Ukraine on Monday, including two in Kherson, one in Zaporizhia, and two in Donetsk. Difficult to name just how many people were injured by the attacks.
• Governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram that in the Zaporizhia region alone, Russian forces carried out 286 drone strikes, 10 missile strikes, and 5 airstrikes on 16 settlements in a single day.
• More than 29, 000 customers were without electricity on Sunday morning as a result of a Russian drone attack that occurred overnight near the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, according to the governor of the area. The Chornomorsk seaport was the hardest-hit city.
• A civilian bulk carrier carrying Belize’s flag also suffered minor damage after hitting an unidentified explosive device close to Chornomorsk, according to the Reuters news agency.
• Russian drones targeted northern Chernihiv in Ukraine early on Sunday, damaging the country’s energy infrastructure and leaving 30 000 households without electricity, including a portion of Nizhyn, according to Governor Viacheslav Chaus.
• Russia reportedly used 142 drones to attack Ukraine overnight, and 142 of them were shot down by the country’s air defense forces, hitting 10 locations.
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, promised to retaliate against Russian strikes deep inside Russia.

• Russia’s military criticized Russia’s claims of a successful summer offensive, saying Russian forces failed to take control of any significant Ukrainian city or “grossly exaggerated” figures regarding captured territory.
• Two Ministry of Internal Affairs employees were among the injured in Russia as a result of Ukrainian drone attacks targeting the Kursk region, according to Governor Alexander Khinshtein in a post on Telegram.
• According to TASS, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that its forces had destroyed 112 Ukrainian drones, two aerial bombs, and three rocket launchers in a single day.
• The third reactor at Russia’s Kursk nuclear power plant, which had been hacked after a drone attack, was completely restored, according to a report from TASS on Sunday, citing the facility.

diplomacy and politics

• Russia continued its operations in Ukraine until Moscow saw tangible signs that Kyiv was ready for peace, according to the Kremlin, accusing European powers of stifling US President Donald Trump’s peace efforts.
• From the sidelines of the SCO summit in China, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that the eurocrats are on their fundamental course and aren’t giving up.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz predicted that the Russia-Ukraine conflict would “last a long time.” He claimed that “the price of Ukraine’s capitulation” would be the end of diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.
• During a visit to Poland’s border near Belarus, where she called Putin a “predator” who could only be kept in check through “strong deterrence,” Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, made announcements about additional funding for member states of the European Union bordering Russia and Belarus.
• Von der Leyen added that as part of proposed post-conflict security guarantees, Europe is “pretty precise plans” for a multinational troop deployment to Ukraine.
• She claimed that Trump had promised to “as part of the backstop” that “there will be]an] American presence in Europe.”
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated in an article published in the People’s Daily, the state newspaper of China, that his nation would “continue to pursue” its “peace diplomacy” with “patience.”
• Pope Leo urged dialogue and a ceasefire in the conflict in Ukraine. In his Sunday prayer with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square, he said, “It is time for those responsible to renounce the logic of arms and to follow the path of negotiation and peace with the support of the international community.”

Weapons

• Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, inspected a new missile production line and automated manufacturing process, according to state media KCNA on Monday. To support Moscow in its conflict with Ukraine, North Korea has sent missiles, soldiers, and artillery ammunition to Russia.
  • Norway, which has a border with Russia, announced that it will make the largest military investment ever, purchasing new frigates worth 10 billion pounds ($13.51 billion) from the UK.

According to the spokesman, Michael Ragusa, in a post on X, Giuliani suffered a fractured vertebra as well as other cuts late on Saturday night. He claimed that Giuliani’s rental car was struck at high speed, adding that it wasn’t a planned attack.

According to Ragusa, Giuliani, 81, was taken to a nearby trauma center where he was receiving treatment for injuries like “a fractured thoracic vertebrae, multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg.”

Giuliani contacted police on her behalf after being “flagged down by a woman who was the victim of a domestic violence incident” prior to the accident, according to Ragusa.

Giuliani continued on his way after the police arrived, and his car was struck shortly after pulling onto the highway. In an emailed statement, Ragusa claimed the car crash was “entirely unrelated” to the domestic violence incident.

Giuliani is expected to be discharged from the hospital soon, according to Ragusa, who described him as “in great spirits.”

The one-time unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate’s campaign trail was sparked by the weekend crash, which came after the attacks on September 11, 2001, when he was referred to as “America’s mayor.”

Giuliani later worked for Trump as his personal attorney and vocal supporter of Joe Biden’s false allegations of fraud in the 2020 election.

Numerous recounts, reviews, and audits of the election results revealed no indications of significant wrongdoing or error, and Trump and his supporters lost numerous lawsuits claiming fraud.

Later, two former Georgia election officials won a $ 48 million defamation verdict against Giuliani. The former federal prosecutor was found in contempt of court when they attempted to collect the judgment. This winter, he was able to testify about how much of his assets he owned.

Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, and Ramallah have been reported as incidents in the Israeli army’s operations and arrests throughout the occupied West Bank.

A young man and a child were among the numerous Palestinians who were detained in the Yabad town on Sunday, according to the Wafa news agency.

A 37-year-old man was detained in Beit Fajjar, according to reports, and a 25-year-old man was detained in Nilin, near Ramallah, in addition to being in Israeli custody.

Just days after Israel launched a protracted raid in the Ramallah and el-Bireh governorates, which left at least 58 people injured, several raids were carried out in those areas.

Kafr Malek, Nilin, and Deir Qaddis were also visited by Israeli soldiers, but they did not make any arrests.

As evidenced by online videos that Al Jazeera verified, intense and persistent gunfire erupted in other locations in the West Bank south of Hebron.

According to Wafa, five Palestinians were shot by Israelis, including a girl, and taken to a hospital for treatment.

No injuries were reported from the Israeli airstrikes in the towns of Sebastia and Sarra, which are both said to have been shot by Israeli soldiers.

In Masafer Yatta, a Palestinian man and his wife were injured in Khallet al-Daba, a settler attack that occurred in the village.

In Kisan, a village close to Bethlehem, Israeli settlers also attacked Palestinian homes.

Despite being protected by the Israeli army, the settlers reportedly broke into Palestinian homes and looted them.

More than 1, 000 Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), were recorded in the first eight months of the year and resulted in injuries, property damage, or both. Israeli soldiers support and execute settlers on Palestinian land every day in secret.

Since October 2023, Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 671 Palestinians in the area, including 129 children, according to OCHA.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) claimed that Israeli authorities had carried out unauthorised excavation and demolition operations at the Jerusalem compound’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in addition to the Israeli raids and the settler attacks.

According to a statement from the PA’s Jerusalem governorate, “These operations deliberately target Islamic antiquities dating back to the Umayyad period, which are living witnesses and unquestionable proof of Muslims’ legitimate claim to the site.”

In the ongoing hardline anti-immigration campaign, a US judge has ordered the administration of US President Donald Trump to deport unaccompanied Guatemalan children for at least the next two weeks.

Some Guatemalan children were reportedly already huddled inside the planes at a Texas airport as a result of a complaint filed by a pro-immigrant advocacy group.

The National Immigration Law Center filed a petition in relation to 10 children between the ages of 10 and 17 in response to District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s emergency decree.

After initially preventing the group’s deportation, Sooknanan, who lives in Washington, DC, expanded the order to include all Guatemalan children who had arrived in the US without a parent or guardian.

Due to rumors that some of the children were being deported from the US over the Labor Day weekend, Sooknanan also suggested holding a hearing on the matter on Sunday.

The judge noted that her decision extended to unaccompanied Guatemalan minors on Sunday, noting that there was no “I do not want there to be any ambiguity.”

Following an agreement with Guatemala, the Trump administration reportedly planned to begin deporting children to the country this weekend, according to reports in the US media.

According to the legal challenge brought by the National Immigration Law Center, such a move would constitute a “clear violation of the unwavering protections that Congress has provided them as vulnerable children.”

The US government was “illegally transferring them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody to put them on flights to Guatemala, where they may face abuse, neglect, persecution, or torture,” the complaint continued.

Guatemala’s Foreign Minister Carlos Martinez confirmed on Friday that the country would accept hundreds of American-born children.

Trump has made numerous attempts to deport refugees and immigrants since his second term as president, which officially kicked off in January.

Legal issues have plagued his administration’s anti-immigration policies, which have included sending hundreds of people to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

A Salvadoran man who was legally resident in the US state of Maryland and Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the most well-known face of the Trump administration’s crackdown, was mistakenly deported in March. According to his attorneys, he was brutally beaten and subjected to psychological torture while incarcerated there.

In a crucial opening game between two of the likely Premier League title contenders, Liverpool defeated Arsenal 1-0 thanks to Dominik Szoboszlai’s superb long-range free kick.

Manchester City’s 2-1 defeat at Brighton, for a second straight loss, was another indication that Pep Guardiola’s team has lost its sense of dominance, which was expected to challenge them for the championship this year.

Before Szoboszlai stepped up an 83rd-minute free kick and whipped it into the top corner from about 30 yards, little could have separated Liverpool and Arsenal at Anfield.

Szoboszlai told Sky Sports, “I thought I would take a chance.” I finally tried it because I was confident, so I did! When you practice constantly and Trent [Alexander-Arnold] was doing the free kicks, it’s been a while, but I finally had a chance, and I did it.

Because we were shooting from closer, I didn’t practice this particular shot in the previous few weeks, but I had to take a chance and shoot it a little harder.

The Hungary captain, who is typically an attacking midfielder, made his best impression of Alexander-Arnold with a top-notch strike that was out of step with the rest of the game when he was needed to play full back in an emergency.

Liverpool, the defending champion, has now won three straight games to begin the season.

It was Arsenal’s first loss and first goal conceded, extending its unbeaten run at Anfield since 2012 with a winless record.

“Arsenal had a fantastic season last year,” Szoboszlai continued.

It’s a compliment to keep going with City and Chelsea, “because it’s always really difficult,” to be honest. They both have incredible coaches and incredible teams.

Former Liverpool midfielder Milner scores an EPL record for Man City, who lost once more.

Tottenham, which showed the same vulnerabilities and brittleness last season when it lost the title to Liverpool for the fourth consecutive year, suffered a 2-0 home loss to City at the same time last weekend.

Rodri, the reigning Ballon d’Or winner, said: “This is the reality: we are not at the level we have been doing for a while.

The 89th minute winner for Brighton, which had already trailed to Erling Haaland’s first-half goal, his 88th Premier League goal since moving to England in 2022, came from Brajan Gruda, who surged through an open defense, round goalkeeper James Trafford, and slotted into an empty net.

After Matheus Nunes raised his arm in the area to block a shot, City gave up the equalizer in the 67th minute, and Brighton went on to become the second-oldest scorer in Premier League history at 39 years and 239 days. He also scored for Leeds when he was 16 years old, making him the second-youngest.

Before Gruda’s one, Brighton had a succession of chances as City slowly faded, before capturing the result of his team’s come-from-behind 2-1 victory over City last year.

The only points for City so far this season came from a 4-0 win over Wolverhampton, which caused pundits to declare Guardiola’s side was back. It currently trails Manchester United in points.

With a 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest, West Ham relieved manager Graham Potter of the pressure of late goals from Callum Wilson, Lucas Paqueta, and Jarrod Bowen.

West Ham was also eliminated from the English League Cup in midweek, losing its first two league games, scoring eight goals in the process.

The Brazil midfielder gave a fake answer to a call and put away a phone before kissing the badge on his jersey as a nod to being linked with a move to Aston Villa in the past 24 hours.

On Sunday, Crystal Palace travels to Villa to wrap up the third-round of the Premier League.