The Houthis fired at the airport one day after it reopened and at the compound where Yemen’s recognized government sits. What is being contested is the state’s own address, and the bill lands on residents stockpiling food and looking for a way out.
The president of Cuba's National Institute of Hydraulic Resources, Antonio Rodríguez, said that interruptions in water networks affect 2,681,770 residents, 66% of them for electrical reasons and 25% because of broken pumping equipment, according to the EFE agency, in a text republished by the Paraguayan outlet ABC Color. President Miguel Díaz-Canel called the water supply problem “grave and complex” and said that large-scale investments to solve it require time, while immediate difficulties are being addressed. The worst-affected provinces are Havana, with about 536,000 residents facing supply problems, and Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Matanzas, Artemisa and Pinar, with about 200,000 each. Díaz-Canel attributed the problem to objective causes — the US blockade, the energy crisis, aging networks — and also to the “negligence, indolence and lack of coordination” of the authorities.
Ukrainian drone strikes have killed three people in Russia’s Belgorod region, while attacks cut power to multiple cities in Ukraine and parts of Russian-occupied Crimea, according to officials. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia’s overnight attacks damaged power generation facilities and substations in nine regions, leaving emergency outages in many cities. Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed on Telegram that it hit two power stations in Ukraine’s Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions and said it downed 709 Ukrainian drones across 14 regions, Crimea and the Black and Azov seas. In southern Russia, a Ukrainian drone attack started a fire at a distribution facility of Ozon, in the town of Adygeysk in the Republic of Adygea, regional head Murat Kumpilov said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he hoped Trump would continue his peacemaking efforts after the Democratic victory and treated any changes in Congress as a domestic US matter: “President Trump continues to exercise his powers. We sincerely hope that he will also continue his peacemaking efforts.”
A Russian missile destroyed Dnipro’s hospice on Monday night, and nearly 50 terminally ill patients were transferred to other facilities; the oldest was 90 years old. In Kharkiv, a hospital was hit and 73 people were wounded, most of them elderly patients, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. Russian strikes on an aid center, a hospice and a hospital killed at least 38 civilians and injured scores of others in 24 hours. Kyiv’s water supply was entirely cut off “due to enemy attacks and damage to the capital’s energy infrastructure,” the supplier Kyivvodokanal said, and the entire metro network was suspended on Tuesday. Russia also struck energy infrastructure in nine regions, affecting water and heating. Zelensky said Russia launched 289 drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles overnight across the country, and three thermal power plants of Ukraine’s largest private energy company were out of operation, according to the company. The UN human rights monitoring mission said the aid distribution at the school in Komyshuvakha had been highly publicized and that the attack “seems to have violated the most fundamental principles of international humanitarian law.”
Syrian authorities said they arrested two members of a Hezbollah cell and seized explosives allegedly intended for use on the Homs refinery, the last facility operational after the civil war. The state agency SANA reported the foiled plot on Sunday, and in early October Damascus had reported sabotage attacks first against an oil pipeline and then a gas one.
A suspected cyberattack hit grocery stores in at least nine European countries on Monday, and the European Union (EU) warned of a deliberate attempt to disrupt the bloc's food supply chain. European Agriculture and Food Commissioner Christophe Hansen said the incidents are “a deliberate attempt to disrupt our food supply chain and undermine consumers' confidence.” The Paris prosecutor's office counted around 700 victims in October's attack on French supermarkets, and around 40 Delhaize supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg were affected, along with a smaller number of shops in Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Estonia and Finland.
The United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre assesses it as highly likely that AI-powered malware will have been used in a ransomware attack on UK critical infrastructure by 2028. The center chief, Richard Horne, said the United Kingdom will likely face AI cyberattacks on critical infrastructure by 2028, from criminals and states — including China and Russia.
Syria's special services said they exposed a terrorist plot against an oil refinery in the city of Homs, according to the TASS news agency. Suicide vests, makeshift explosive devices, electronic equipment for remote detonation and detailed maps of the facility were seized from the detainees.
Drones belonging to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) struck the Haya electrical transformer station and a nearby oil pumping station on Saturday in eastern Sudan, setting fires and damaging the facilities. The oil facility sits on the pipeline transporting crude to the Bashayer port on the Red Sea coast. Early this Sunday, a drone strike hit the Abu Hamad power station in River Nile State in northern Sudan, setting off a fire and loud explosions, according to eyewitnesses cited by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency.
Drone attacks left about 200,000 families without electricity in Dnipro and the surrounding region and more than 80,000 families in the Kyiv region, according to Interfax-Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian Shahed drones struck a combined heat and power plant in Kyiv and four electrical substations in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to UNN.
The problem on the network of France's biggest telecoms provider Orange first hit at 11:37 a.m. on Monday and lasted until 8:30 p.m., with outages of up to nine hours for some customers, Orange France CEO Jérôme Hénique told Le Figaro, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP) — at the core of the outage was a software bug in Nokia's code, new to Orange and “extremely complicated to find”.
At least 69 people were killed when two trains collided near Urda, a town close to Toledo in central Spain, according to Al Jazeera — only 10 months after another collision on the same line, in Adamuz near Cordoba, killing 46 people; next month's snap poll “is no longer the contest it was”, as Pedro Sánchez is pressed to defend the government's safety record, according to the Guardian.
The Renfe train traveling from Madrid to Seville, with 397 passengers on board, struck the rear of the stationary Iryo train, which carried 147, on Wednesday morning near Urda in the province of Toledo, according to the BBC. The collision killed at least 69 people and injured dozens, and Spain began three days of national mourning. Audio recordings between drivers and the control center released on Thursday appear to show the Renfe train was cleared to move even though the Iryo train had stalled about 25 km ahead; according to the transport minister, the Renfe train was ordered to proceed in error. Emergency crews continued operations at the site, with the death toll at 69, France 24 reported.
Oscar Puente told reporters in Madrid that the red signal was triggered by a computer communications failure, which automatically stopped traffic, and that an erroneous decision was then made to restart the Renfe train. At least 68 people died when a Spanish high-speed express slammed into a stationary train on Wednesday, Spain's second fatal rail crash this year and Europe's deadliest since 2013, according to France 24. Sánchez said the tragedy will be investigated and that the country will strengthen high-speed rail safety if needed to rebuild confidence in the system.
German police arrested two Belarusian nationals suspected of planning sabotage attacks in southern Germany, the Munich General Prosecutor’s Office said on Wednesday, according to the Straits Times, and Der Spiegel reported they were working on behalf of Russia. The suspects planned to set fire to a building or critical infrastructure facility in the Nuremberg area, the prosecutor’s office said. Der Spiegel reported that Romanian authorities are also investigating the two men for suspected involvement in an arson attack on an industrial park in Brasov on the night of September 14, the site of a defense firm making grenade launchers and ammunition.
The death toll from the train collision in Urda, in the province of Toledo, has risen to 64 dead and 58 injured, according to the local government's update on Wednesday. Forty of the dead were traveling on the Iryo train and 24 on the Renfe AVE, according to the same tally. The regional government of Castilla-La Mancha, the region where the crash happened, confirmed 64 dead, according to the BBC. Emergency services sources told El País that a Renfe AVE train hit the rear of an Iryo train stopped on the tracks, and two cars fell down an embankment.
A drone strike on a market in Nyala, the de facto capital of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Darfur, killed 21 people and wounded at least 40, a medical source and witnesses told AFP, in a report published by Asharq Al-Awsat. In the country’s east, the RSF launched a coordinated drone attack against five power stations, causing mass power outages, a government official told the Guardian.
Tehran has drawn up detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the United States and Israel attack Iran again, two senior Iranian security officials told Reuters, according to The Hindu. One of them said Iran would aim to prevent repairs after any attacks, to prolong disruptions to communications, including internet connections.
UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said Britain should prepare for the threat of “state-sponsored terrorism” by hostile powers targeting everyday infrastructure, as part of a national conversation about resilience in the face of emergencies, according to the Guardian. He said on Thursday the public should consider how to respond to hybrid warfare risks, such as cyber-attacks that could knock out payment systems used by businesses or cause supply chains to collapse.
Flaws in the PHP programming language could let attackers take control of affected servers without authentication and steal sensitive data, and developers of the platform rolled out patches on Wednesday for vulnerabilities that had been lurking in the software for years, the BBC reported. In the UK, 32 government services were offline and four were partially unavailable while the fix was carried out, a minister said, according to the Guardian.
The United Nations strongly condemned drone strikes on civilians and critical infrastructure across Sudan on Tuesday, according to CGTN. Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said the UN strongly condemns the reported killing of dozens of civilians in a drone strike on a market in the locality of Al Dibab, West Kordofan State, on Sunday. On Tuesday, drones damaged the main power station in the town of Tendalti, in White Nile state, according to Dujarric.
The European Union (EU) presented on Tuesday a new Arctic strategy with monitoring and protection of undersea cables, a direct link between the bloc and Greenland and the expansion of an icebreaker fleet dwarfed by Russia’s, according to the Associated Press, in a text republished by the Los Angeles Times. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that when sovereignty, territorial integrity and the rules that have underpinned stability in the region can no longer be taken for granted, “we have to act and change our strategic posture”. Officials estimate Europe has around 10 icebreakers, most of them in Finland, against around 40 for Russia.
Multiple Google Cloud services were experiencing serious network disruptions at its European data centre in London on Tuesday, according to the US technology giant's service health website. British digital bank Revolut said it was facing disruption to multiple services, which a source close to the matter attributed to the Google Cloud outage. Google said the incident began at 06:08 GMT on Tuesday.
At least one person has been killed and at least five have been injured in an overnight attack on St Petersburg that targeted two of the city’s oil facilities, according to the BBC. The region’s governor, Alexander Beglov, said fires were being extinguished at the St Petersburg Oil Terminal and the Ruchyi oil depot, and that 12 apartment buildings and two homes were damaged, with Pulkovo Airport temporarily closed. A logistics center belonging to Ozon and a data center belonging to VKontakte were also hit. Ukraine has not yet commented on the strikes, and Russia’s defense ministry said it had shot down more than 1,000 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory overnight, according to the BBC.
Ukrainian forces launched a massive drone attack on St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, and Russian air defense forces downed 126 of them over the region, Governor Alexander Drozdenko said. Pulkovo Airport suspended all arrivals and departures, according to the Russian agency Rosaviatsia, and drones hit the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal and civilian infrastructure in four city districts, causing no casualties, Governor Alexander Beglov said. VK confirmed a drone attack on its data center in the Leningrad Region and said its services remain available to users as usual.
Russian attacks in Ukraine killed at least eight people and injured 60 on Friday, struck nine regions and two shopping centers and cut power to more than a million people, Ukrainian officials said. In Kharkiv, a 71-year-old woman and a 58-year-old man died and 12 were wounded in strikes on three districts, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said, in a Reuters text republished by Internazionale. The Hindu reported three people killed in strikes across several regions, and Al Jazeera said about 370,000 households lost power in Volyn.
An explosion struck the Jbessa gas pipeline in southern Hasakah province in the late afternoon, hours after damage to a pipeline carrying oil products from the coastal city of Baniyas to Homs caused a fuel leak, Al Jazeera reported, citing SANA. The state-run Syrian Petroleum Company said the gas pipeline had been targeted in a “sabotage attack”, according to SANA.
The New Yalu River Bridge, linking Liaoning in China to North Pyongan in North Korea, was inaugurated on Thursday (10/15), with four lanes in both directions and a total length of 3,026 meters, connecting the cities of Dandong and Sinuiju, with Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning saying the opening will expand economic exchanges and the flow of citizens between the two countries, according to Opera Mundi.
A Russian overnight attack damaged 26 facilities of Ukraine’s power system and four in the oil and gas sector and left at least 600,000 people without power in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. The New York Times reports that Kyiv has found itself increasingly vulnerable, with a Pentagon-funded satellite program apparently curbed without warning.
At least 600,000 people were left without power in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions after overnight Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Zelensky said there was significant damage to 26 facilities of the power system and four in the oil and gas sector, and highlighted a targeted ballistic missile strike against infrastructure that he said should have been covered by the energy ceasefire announced on Sunday by US President Donald Trump.
Germany put a Ukrainian on trial, accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, according to BBC News. The defendant is a 50-year-old Ukrainian identified as Serhii K. by the German federal prosecutor’s office and suspected of being one of the main organizers of the operation, according to Le Monde. His full name, Serhii Kuznietsov, was revealed during his extradition from Italy.
For the first time since US President Donald Trump’s weekend announcement of an “energy ceasefire”, Russia hit no Ukrainian energy targets on Tuesday and pounded cities’ transport and logistics overnight, according to France 24. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had not hit Russian refineries for two days, since Trump’s announcement, but that Russia kept up attacks on energy and critical infrastructure during that period. Four people were killed in Russian strikes in Kharkiv and at least a dozen were injured across the country, according to Ukrainian officials.
A passenger train running from Karachi to Peshawar derailed in Sher Shah, in Punjab, on Tuesday morning, killing four people and injuring 30, according to The Hindu, which cites police and a Pakistan Railways spokesman. Rescue teams recovered all four bodies and evacuated the injured from the train's 14 cars to hospital, according to The Hindu, which cites the railway spokesman.
Poland says two Turkish citizens were arrested in Germany on suspicion of setting fire to a Starlink station in Poland. According to DW, the two Turks were detained by German police at the request of Polish services, and Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the fire an act of “hybrid warfare.” Special Services Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said Poland had “absolutely no doubt” that Russian services were behind the fire last month at the station in Wola Krobowska, and the pair await transfer to Poland under a European Arrest Warrant.
Residents of the city of Izyum were hit by blackouts after a Russian strike destroyed power grids, according to Ukrinform, cited by the BBC. Energy and railway infrastructure in the region of Zhytomyr, in western Ukraine, were also targeted overnight, according to the head of the region’s military administration, Vitaliy Bunechko. The state-owned grid operator Ukrenergo reported new power cuts in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia due to damage to energy equipment. President Volodymyr Zelensky said there were glide bomb strikes and strikes on energy infrastructure, and that a power plant in Kharkiv was attacked.
Check Point research describes hundreds of hacking attempts that targeted consumer security cameras around the Middle East, according to Wired. Russia and Ukraine have ramped up camera-hacking in their war, aiming to spy on each other, find new targets and assess damage from their attacks, according to The Wall Street Journal, in a text republished by LiveMint. The Jerusalem Post reported that hackers use security cameras to track troops and military targets in Israel and Ukraine.
Russia's Ministry of Defense said it struck data centers, Ukrainian port infrastructure and vessels serving the Ukrainian military overnight, including the TeNet data center in Odessa, used to process, transmit and store information, according to the ministry, cited by Sputnik.
Power supply in Vladimir, locally disrupted by a drone attack, was restored to 80%, with heat and water fully restored, according to regional governor Alexander Avdeyev. Yandex said the attack damaged its facilities and caused the complete shutdown of its data center in the Vladimir region — the third major company data center to go offline in recent days.
The infrastructure of Yandex's data center in Vladimir was damaged in a drone attack, and the center's operation was completely suspended, according to TASS. There were no casualties, the agency said.
The Russian attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on October 8 left most of Kyiv without power, with the metro shut down due to a lack of electricity and water scarce, according to the Kyiv Independent. Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal confirmed the attack on an energy facility important for Kyiv and said crews are trying to restore power. Drone strikes on October 8 killed four people and injured at least 19 in Kyiv, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko. According to Le Monde, 78 people were killed and 215 wounded on October 7 and 8 alone.
Yandex suspended operations at one of its key data centers on Thursday after a drone strike, as Ukraine continues to target the country’s infrastructure, according to CNBC. The attack caused a fire at the company’s data center in Sasovo, in western Russia’s Ryazan region, and affected part of its infrastructure, Yandex told CNBC. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) groups Exilenova+ and ASTRA identified the site as Yandex DC Sasovo, which the company describes as its largest data center, according to the Kyiv Independent.
Of the 521 locomotives hit in Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, almost 60% have been this year, according to statistics released by the state-owned operator.
Russia again struck Kyiv with drones, hitting the North Bridge over the Dnieper during German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's surprise visit, according to the BBC. Merz arrived in Kyiv unannounced with the economy minister and defense and energy executives, pledging long-range weapons and 1,000 specialized interceptors, according to the Kyiv Post. He warned that Russia's war machine will turn against NATO if it is not stopped. The Ukrainian capital is under increasing missile and drone attacks on infrastructure, including the energy sector vital for electricity and heating before winter, according to France24.
The governor of Russia's Belgorod region, Alexander Shuvayev, said 17 municipalities came under 141 Ukrainian attacks over the past day, with 182 drones downed or suppressed, according to TASS. One civilian was killed in Grayvoronsky district and two more died in hospitals after injuries in Belgorod and Krasnoyaruzhsky. Russia's Defense Ministry said Russian forces used Geran drones to strike a data center in Odessa and a Nova Poshta logistics center in Chernomorsk, as well as a ship carrying military supplies.
After Russian drone strikes, the Southern Bridge over the Dnipro was completely closed to traffic in both directions, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko; the Paton Bridge was open one way only, and there were no reports that it had been hit. The drones struck the support structures of the Southern Bridge on Thursday, according to Reuters, in a text republished by AOL. A separate strike on a 25-storey residential building killed one person and wounded at least two.
The Saudi-led coalition accused the Iran-backed Houthis of carrying out a drone attack on the Taibah power distribution station in Medina on Tuesday, according to Al Arabiya. Coalition spokesman Brig. Gen. Turki al-Maliki said the Houthis targeted the Taibah station on Tuesday, damaging a transformer and knocking it out of service. The Houthis deny the claim, according to Al Jazeera.
Russia launched the heaviest combined attack on Ukraine's energy sites in months, hitting power facilities and infrastructure around Kyiv and other regions, according to France24. Seven people were killed in the strikes, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine's state power grid operator Ukrenergo said it had imposed emergency power cuts in Kyiv and three surrounding regions.
The Deir Ali, Nasiriyah and Tishreen power plants went out of service after an explosion on a gas line at the Tishreen thermal power plant, according to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). The shutdown of the three plants will temporarily reduce electricity generation and increase power rationing hours. A gas pipeline in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, which borders Iraq, exploded and caught fire after an isolation valve blast, interrupting gas flows to power stations, in an incident Syrian authorities attribute to sabotage, according to The National.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi said Russia launched the largest attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure since the spring, primarily targeting Kyiv and the surrounding region, according to the BBC. At least six people were killed and 33 injured in the overnight attacks across the country, including a child in the Kyiv region, according to local authorities cited by the BBC. DTEK, a major private Ukrainian energy company, said crews had restored electricity to about 8,000 households after the attacks, according to Al Jazeera. Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces had struck power infrastructure in the Kyiv region, according to Al Jazeera.
Lebanon’s National News Agency reported on Tuesday that ongoing Israeli attacks destroyed homes and water wells and severed parts of the water network in the southern Lebanese town of Mansouri, according to the Middle East Eye.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said a dry cargo ship carrying military equipment for Ukraine’s armed forces was hit this afternoon by a drone strike in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, according to Sputnik Globe. The ministry added that it continues striking port infrastructure and vessels used to support Ukrainian troops.
Russia hit port facilities in overnight strikes on the Odesa region, according to the Guardian. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed it struck the Bimobail and Parkovy data processing centres in Kiev — which handled data for the Ukrainian army, according to Sputnik Globe. Moscow also listed two dry cargo vessels among the night’s targets — one in port, one at sea, according to the same source.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio said that a foreign actor was involved in the suspected bomb plot at the Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Fairford in the United Kingdom, hours after the five suspects arrested close to the airbase were released on bail, but provided no evidence for his claims, according to The Guardian. After the suspects' release, it emerged that no explosive material had been found.
Russia’s uninterrupted bombardment killed at least seven people and wounded more than 80 in Ukraine on Monday, according to The Associated Press. On Sunday, September 27, Russia hit the headquarters of Kyivstar, the country’s largest mobile provider, causing no casualties, and Russia’s Defence Ministry said it struck a data center belonging to Vodafone Ukraine, the country’s second-largest cell network operator, according to Reuters. In Kyiv, the National Academy of Sciences building was hit in the Shevchenkivskyi district and a woman died, according to the city military administration.
Russia hit the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile service provider, on Sunday; the company told Interfax Ukraine that its head office in Kyiv had been hit, but there were no casualties, according to Reuters. Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces continued strikes on communication and logistics centers, as well as maritime vessels used in support of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to Sputnik Globe. The ministry also said a logistics center of the Novaya Pochta company in Odessa, which was used to store military cargo, was struck.
The Russian Ministry of Defence said the Armed Forces carried out overnight drone strikes against logistics centers, port and transport infrastructure, communications centers and vessels operating on behalf of the Ukrainian military, according to TASS. The ministry said it hit the Vodafone data center in Kiev, one of the largest providers of mobile communications and high-speed internet to the Ukrainian military, including the transmission of intelligence data, and that it hit in the port of Kiliya the headquarters of the Vostok naval base, a State Border Guard Service outpost, four warehouses with military equipment and port infrastructure facilities. According to Sputnik, the ministry also said a dry cargo vessel was hit while transiting at sea, having been delivering military equipment and dual-use cargo to the port of Odessa.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces hit the Novaya Pochta logistics center in the Odessa Region, where military cargo for the Ukrainian army was stored, and the Cosmonova data center in Kiev, which provided mobile internet and supported the Starlink satellite communication system for the Ukrainian forces. Operator Cosmonova confirmed that the data center’s premises were damaged in the attack, with no employees injured and data preserved through geographic redundancy.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia has widened its attacks to target data centres and internet providers, according to BBC News. On Friday, September 25, 2026, a Russian drone hit a business centre in Kyiv, killing four people and damaging a data centre, the same report said. Russia’s defence ministry confirmed it had hit the Datagroup site, which it said was being used by Ukrainian military intelligence.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it struck the DataGroup data center in Kyiv on Friday, September 25, 2026, claiming the facility handled the processing and transmission of intelligence data for Ukraine’s armed forces, according to Sputnik Globe. Operator Datagroup confirmed that its data center in Kyiv was damaged in an attack on Friday afternoon, with no injuries and services running from backup sites, according to Interfax-Ukraine. The company said customer data was preserved and that all services continued to operate from redundancy sites, according to Interfax-Ukraine.
Providers in Kyiv reported damage to data centers in the Russian attack of September 23, leaving about 100,000 households with internet problems in the capital and surroundings, according to the Kyiv Independent. An expert heard by TASS said the strikes on data centers will “disrupt troop control” by Ukrainian forces, which relies on the internet, according to TASS.
German investigators found a suspicious substance that may be explosive a few metres from where parts of a drone were discovered near the Wunstorf military airfield in Lower Saxony, according to reporting by NDR, WDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung published by tagesschau on Tuesday, September 22, 2026. The drone, broken into several pieces, was found by a farmer about a week earlier roughly a kilometre from the base where Germany’s fleet of A400M transport aircraft is stationed, and at least one component was 3D-printed. Investigators are working on the assumption that the drone also carried explosives, but forensic analysis of the substance is not complete. The federal prosecutor’s office (Generalbundesanwalt) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) are examining whether there is a link to the foiled attack with explosive-laden drones at Leipzig/Halle airport in early August 2026, which the German government blames on Russia and Moscow denies. Investigators believe the drone may have been at the site for up to two years, and the case was discussed at the weekly intelligence meeting at the federal chancellery.
A US federal judge on Monday refused to block a land exchange that hands SpaceX more than 700 acres (280 hectares) of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Texas, according to the Associated Press (AP). Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, nominated by Donald Trump in his first term, said the plaintiffs offered ‘relatively weak’ evidence of environmental harm and that an injunction would set back the company’s plans. SpaceX surrenders 683 acres (276 hectares) it bought in Cameron County. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) approved the exchange in June in a finding that concluded it would cause no significant impact. The suit was filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas, which said they will keep litigating; spokesperson Laiken Jordahl said the swap amounts to handing public land to the company and clears the way for bulldozers in the refuge. The administration is weighing a similar swap of land in Yosemite National Park in California.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress’s watchdog, said on Monday that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has not completed risk assessments or updated security documentation to address spoofing and jamming of radio and GPS signals, and lacks real-time detection for all spectrum-related threats, according to Reuters and The Guardian. Hackers could transmit fraudulent clearance cancellations and cause delays and safety risks, the report said. Senator Ron Wyden called the technology used by air traffic controllers ‘incredibly insecure’; the FAA said it agreed with the report’s nine recommendations.
A second failure of Britain’s air traffic control in two weeks left more than 200 flights canceled in the United Kingdom on Monday, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium. Provider NATS (National Air Traffic Services) blamed the fault on a connectivity problem at its Prestwick centre in Scotland, and maintains it is unrelated to the September 8 software failure that led to more than 2,000 flights being canceled. Ryanair called for the resignation of NATS chief executive Martin Rolfe and said more than 25,000 of its passengers would be affected; Jet2 demanded “action, accountability and proper resilience”.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the fiber cable that shut down air traffic control for New York, Philadelphia and Boston on Monday was accidentally cut by a construction crew in New Jersey, and that a backup circuit would be running shortly, according to FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford. Ground stops were issued for John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia and Teterboro airports, on the day about 130 heads of state and government arrive in New York for the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. More than 600 flights were delayed at Newark and Philadelphia, according to FlightAware, and Flightradar24 put average delays at Newark at 112 minutes. Around 3pm ET, Newark had 168 flights canceled and 97 delayed, and Philadelphia 63 cancellations and 189 delays, according to FlightAware. President Donald Trump’s flight from Washington to New York departed as scheduled. Flights began resuming in the early afternoon at LaGuardia, Kennedy and Philadelphia, with significant delays expected through the rest of the day. The facility that guides air traffic in and out of Newark had already suffered a series of communications outages in May 2025, and Congress approved $12.5 billion last year to modernize the air traffic control system after years of complaints about congestion and delays.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered ground stops at airports across the north-east on Monday after a problem with radio frequencies at the Philadelphia terminal radar approach control, according to The Guardian and Reuters. Ground stops hit Newark, Philadelphia, Teterboro, John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia — on the day 130 heads of state and government arrive in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. The FAA has not said what caused the outage; administrator Bryan Bedford told reporters a backup fiber line was accidentally cut by a construction crew in New Jersey (Reuters). FlightAware showed more than 600 delayed flights at Newark and Philadelphia, and Flightradar24 an average delay of 112 minutes at Newark. The same day, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report finding the FAA has not completed risk assessments or updated security documentation covering interference, spoofing and jamming of radio communications with aircraft, with nine recommendations accepted by the Department of Transportation.
Ukraine has 608 locomotives damaged since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022: 533 belonging to the state railway company Ukrzaliznytsia and 75 to private companies, according to the Minister for Reconstruction, Infrastructure and Transport, Mykola Kalashnyk. The country is negotiating a “railway coalition” agreed at the Carpathian Eight meeting in Bukovel, with Austria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Czechia, and has secured USD 100 million in grant funding under the RELINC project to buy used locomotives on international markets, plus EUR 130 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for energy resilience. Slovakia will transfer three electric locomotives.
Britain’s air traffic control provider NATS (National Air Traffic Services) said a technical issue at its Prestwick centre in Scotland is restricting traffic and delaying flights leaving Scottish airports or heading north of the United Kingdom, according to the Associated Press and the BBC; airports south of Manchester are broadly unaffected, the company said. NATS says the problem is unrelated to the software defect of 8 September that led to more than 2,000 flights being cancelled, and the airline easyJet said the fresh failure “once again calls into question the resilience” of the company’s systems.