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At least eight migrants were killed, two are missing and 28 were rescued after their boat got into difficulty in a storm off the island of Crete, Greek authorities said Monday. File photo by Bougiotis Evangelos/EPA-EFE
Nov. 9 (UPI) --At least eight migrants were killed, two are missing and 28 were rescued after their boat got into difficulty in a storm off the island of Crete, Greek authorities said Monday.
The Hellenic Coastguard said in a news release that one of its lifeboats recovered seven bodies from the vessel on Monday, 12 miles west-south-west of Kala Limenas, having initially rescued 29 Sudanese nationals, one of whom was deceased, in a rescue attempt early Sunday that was abandoned after conditions became too dangerous to continue.
Survivors told the coastguard at least two people had earlier fallen overboard on Friday afternoon and had not been seen since -- but were unable to give the location where they went missing.
"Towing and further recovery became completely impossible and extremely dangerous due to the severity of the weather conditions, with gale force northerly winds, resulting in the boat being left at the scene," said the coastguard.
Survivors said they had set sail from Libya headed for Greece on Tuesday or Wednesday, paying between $1,870 and $2,493 for the crossing.
The bodies and survivors were brought ashore in Kala Limenas before being transferred to Heraklion, the island's capital, where two of the survivors were being treated in the hospital.
An estimated additional 87 people were rescued in two separate operations about 35 and 36 miles south of Kali Limenas, respectively, after being located with assistance from manned and unmanned aircraft, picked up by Frontex vessels and were being brought to Kali Limenas.
Two people, both Sudanese nationals, were arrested in connection with the incidents.
Separately, the state-run Senegalese Press Agency reported that at least 34 migrants were killed after a small wooden boat trying to reach the Canary Islands went down of the coast of the west African country.
Senegal's interior ministry said one person had been rescued but an unknown number of people remained unaccounted for after the vessel capsized between Dakar and Saint-Louis.
The Canary Islands are part of Spain and therefore the European Union.
At least 635 people died attempting to reach the Canary Islands on the so-called Atlantic route in the five months to May, according to Walking Borders, a Spanish migrant rights group, which said it estimated that at least one in five people who made the crossing lost their lives doing so.
Auhtorities on the islands said more than 30 boats carrying more than 3,300 people had arrived in November alone.
Again, we Iranians woke up this morning to horrifying news:
The Islamic Republic has hanged three more innocent protesters.
Shocking that how hanging human beings for speaking, for demanding Freedom has become the Islamic Republic’s new normal. Worse, the world seems to be getting used to it.
Today, Hassan Dioband, Hamid Kazemi, and Reza Zanganeh were executed over January’s protests.
Three lives taken. Three families shattered.
Stop normalizing executions in Iran.
#StopExecutionsInIran
At least 33 people were killed, 10 were injured and 50 remain missing after Russian forces dropped 3.3 ton bombs on a Ukrianian village school Monday where local residents were taking cover in specially-reinforced bunker. File Photo by Vlad Movchan/UPI | License Photo
Nov. 3 (UPI) --At least 33 people were killed, 10 injured and 50 remain missing after Russian forces unleashed nine 6,600-pound bombs on a village school where residents were taking cover beneath ground in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region.
Zaporizhzhia Gov. Mykhailo Semikin said the sheer force of the blasts in the strike on Monday demolished a specially hardened basement, which was only constructed in 2025 with European Union funding, and set it on fire.
No classes were being held at the school in Komyshuvakha, 20 miles southeast of Zaporizhzhia, the building having been turned over to use as a shelter and center for distributing humanitarian assistance as more and more of the civilian population fled advancing Russian forces, according to Semikin.
Posting footage from the scene of a large bomb crater, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the "utterly horrific" attack was one of the most deadly of the war and that there were still people "under the rubble."
Zelensky said it was impossible that the Russians didn't know that Monday was the day "that the local residents who remained in Komyshuvakha received humanitarian aid there [at the school] every week."
"It is very telling that all of this is happening on the day of the U.S. congressional elections. The Russians believe that America will not notice this signal from them. But such terror must be noticed and stopped," Zelensky said.
The attack came amid an intensification of Russia's airborne campaign against civilian and infrastructure targets -- particularly energy facilities -- as the conflict enters its fifth winter with 14 people killed and 14 injured Thursday in a drone strike that hit a train at Dnipro's main train station and at least 33 killed and 18 injured in an Oct. 8 strike on two buses in Kramatorsk in Donetsk.
A shortage of air defense missiles, including U.S.-made Patriot surface-to-air interceptors, to shoot down incoming Russian missiles has been blamed in part for a jump in the number of civilian casualties in Kyiv and across the country.
U.S.-mediated peace talks stalled since February are due to resume next week when Ukrainian, Russian and American negotiators meet Nov. 10 in Abu Dhabi for "working level" talks, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff wrote on X.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, talks to U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 7, 2025.
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The president said the idea came from Netanyahu himself, suggesting that the agreement was also made to stop Democrats from using US funding to Israel as ammunition to criticize Republicans.
“He brought it up. He brought it up,” Trump said of the Israeli leader.
“He said, ‘I think it would be appropriate if we do not receive aid,’ because he understands that this is one of their points of contention.”
Trump called the roughly $4 billion in aid “the best talking point that these lunatics on the left have.”
“Why should we suffer the slings from lunatics like El-Sayed?” he asked, referring to Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed. who has made Israel aid a flagship issue of his campaign.
A campaign billboard depicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump in Tel Aviv, Monday, Oct. 26, 2026.
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Trump said the two leaders struck the deal “months ago.”
Netanyahu has been publicly pushing to end the aid since at least January, when he told The Economist he hoped Israel could stop relying on American military funding entirely within a decade. By May, he was telling CBS’ “60 Minutes” that he didn’t “want to wait for the next Congress.”
Days before Israel’s Oct. 27 election, he went further, telling Israel’s Channel 10 that the aid “won’t keep coming because America has changed, not because Israel has. It’s over and it will be over; it’s just a question of time.”
A giant electoral poster for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party with the slogan “no surrender” is displayed on the facade of a building in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026.
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On the Iran war, Trump claimed the US had left the country with no navy, no air force and no anti-aircraft defenses.
He confirmed an overnight US strike on an Iranian air-defense site, which he said Iran had spent about two months building.
“As soon as it was completed, we hit it last night very nicely,” he said. “Just a minor attack. It wasn’t war.”
Iranians wave flags by an anti-US billboard of President Trump in Tehran’s Enghelab Square, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026.
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US officials told CNN the limited strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island, in the Strait of Hormuz, were defensive, with one saying they came in response to Iran firing on an American aircraft.
Asked what comes after Election Day, Trump said, “I’m not looking to, you know, kill lots of people, but if we have to, we’ll have to.”
Germany can’t provide Ukraine with any more US-made Patriot air defense systems because it would dangerously deplete its own stocks, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said.
In an interview with the newspaper Berliner Morgenpost published on Friday, Pistorius noted that Berlin had already delivered several Patriot systems and large numbers of guided missiles to Kiev.
“We cannot provide any more at this moment,” the German defense chief stated, explaining that anything Germany supplied now would not be replaced “for the foreseeable future.”
Pistorius urged other Western nations, whom he accused of having “contributed significantly less,” to step up deliveries of air defense systems to Ukraine.
Pistorius had already warned in January that Germany could not send any more Patriot systems, saying it had already handed over more than a third of its capabilities to Ukraine.
Germany, one of Kiev’s key Western backers, has launched a massive rearmament drive since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz setting the goal of building Europe’s strongest conventional army. Berlin has cited a perceived threat from Russia, while Moscow has repeatedly dismissed as “nonsense” claims that it intends to attack NATO.
Apart from a shortage of Patriot air defense systems themselves, Ukraine has experienced significant shortages of modern PAC-3 missiles capable of intercepting ballistic rockets. The deficit intensified after Russia stepped up its long-range missile and drone strikes on military-related targets across Ukraine. Moscow has described its strikes as retaliation for Kiev’s UAV attacks on energy facilities and other civilian infrastructure inside Russia.
Intercepting ballistic missiles can require launching two Patriot interceptors at a single target, with each missile costing between $3.5 and $5 million. Russia, meanwhile, has repeatedly launched large-scale strikes involving dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones.
The US and its allies are also reportedly facing severe shortages of Patriot interceptors after Washington expended large quantities of air defense ammunition during its war against Iran earlier this year. The shortages have reportedly forced Washington to delay contracted deliveries of PAC-3 interceptors to some customers in Europe and Asia.
Nevertheless, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has repeatedly demanded that Western backers provide Kiev with more interceptors.
Late last month, Ukrainian Defense Minister Evgeny Khmara asked France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and Poland to donate 10% of their respective interceptor stockpiles to Kiev.
However, the Netherlands and Poland had previously indicated that they had no Patriot missiles to spare, while other European countries are reportedly holding back their own PAC-3 reserves as well.
Moscow has consistently denounced Western weapons deliveries to Ukraine, arguing that they only serve to unnecessarily prolong the bloodshed without changing the conflict’s ultimate outcome, while increasing the risk of
A man carries a wounded child at a hospital following alleged Saudi-led airstrikes in Sana'a, Yemen, Saturday. The Houthi-held Ministry of Health reported that at least 22 people, mostly women and children, were killed and 30 others wounded in alleged Saudi-led airstrikes on houses east of Sanaa, amid growing hostilities between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia. Photo by Yahya Arhab/EPA
Nov. 7 (UPI) --More than 50 people have died in airstrikes in Yemen, believed to be launched by Saudi Arabia.
Houthi officials said one airstrike hit the village of al-Shariya in the Bani Hushaysh district east of Sanaa, Yemen's capital that has been under Houthi control since 2014.
Anees al-Asbahi, a spokesperson for the Houthi-run health ministry, said at least 27 people were killed and 30 others wounded in Saturday's attack, most of them women and children, The New York Times reported. He blamed Saudi warplanes. The Saudi government has not spoken about the attacks.
The Houthis are fighting a civil war with Yemen's government. Iran backs the Houthis, and Saudi Arabia, along with many other countries, backs Yemen. There was a cease-fire in 2022, but fighting picked up again in August.
The Houthis and Saudi Arabia have been trading strikes as the Houthis are trying to block the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which would cut off access to the Red Sea, while the United States and Iran have blocked the Strait of Hormuz. On Friday, strikes in the government-run Taiz province on a crowded market killed at least 30 people. The Yemeni government blames the Houthis, but the Houthis blame Saudi Arabia.
Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council has said the government will continue working to dismantle Houthi military capacity and restore sovereignty, Al-Jazeera reported.
For the past month, the Yemeni government has waged a "Dawn of Yemen" offensive against the Houthis after they claimed territory on the Red Sea coast. The mission is to recapture Houthi-controlled areas including Sanaa.
By the end of October, almost 1,800 people have been killed since August, and more than 300,000 people have been displaced, the World Health Organization said. Hospitals in Yemen are running low on medical supplies, aid agencies have reported.
Houthi officials said they will retaliate for the latest deaths. Yahya Saree, the Houthi military spokesperson, said the group would avenge their dead "against the killer of children and women."
A man carries a wounded child at a hospital following alleged Saudi-led airstrikes in Sana'a, Yemen, Saturday. The Houthi-held Ministry of Health reported that at least 22 people, mostly women and children, were killed and 30 others wounded in alleged Saudi-led airstrikes on houses east of Sanaa, amid growing hostilities between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia. Photo by Yahya Arhab/EPA
Nov. 7 (UPI) -- More than 50 people have died in airstrikes in Yemen, believed to be launched by Saudi Arabia.
Houthi officials said one airstrike hit the village of al-Shariya in the Bani Hushaysh district east of Sanaa, Yemen's capital that has been under Houthi control since 2014.
Anees al-Asbahi, a spokesperson for the Houthi-run health ministry, said at least 27 people were killed and 30 others wounded in Saturday's attack, most of them women and children, The New York Times reported. He blamed Saudi warplanes. The Saudi government has not spoken about the attacks.
The Houthis are fighting a civil war with Yemen's government. Iran backs the Houthis, and Saudi Arabia, along with many other countries, backs Yemen. There was a cease-fire in 2022, but fighting picked up again in August.
The Houthis and Saudi Arabia have been trading strikes as the Houthis are trying to block the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which would cut off access to the Red Sea, while the United States and Iran have blocked the Strait of Hormuz.
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On Friday, strikes in the government-run Taiz province on a crowded market killed at least 30 people. The Yemeni government blames the Houthis, but the Houthis blame Saudi Arabia.
Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council has said the government will continue working to dismantle Houthi military capacity and restore sovereignty, Al-Jazeera reported.
For the past month, the Yemeni government has waged a "Dawn of Yemen" offensive against the Houthis after they claimed territory on the Red Sea coast. The mission is to recapture Houthi-controlled areas including Sanaa.
By the end of October, almost 1,800 people have been killed since August, and more than 300,000 people have been displaced, the World Health Organization said. Hospitals in Yemen are running low on medical supplies, aid agencies have reported.
Houthi officials said they will retaliate for the latest deaths. Yahya Saree, the Houthi military spokesperson, said the group would avenge their dead "against the killer of children and women."
Election Day 2026: Democrats celebrate taking control of House, Senate
People react as Democrats win seats in the House and Senate during the 2026 midterm elections during a midterm watch party with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in Washington on November 3, 2026. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
