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Russia Sends Biggest Drone Barrage in Weeks, Ukrainian Officials Say

Russian forces targeted Ukraine with their biggest drone attack in weeks, part of what Ukrainian officials and military analysts say appears to be a campaign to wear down and probe Ukrainian air defenses ahead of winter.

Flooding in Tuscany Leaves Six Dead

At least six people have died in Tuscany, Italy, amid widespread flooding, local officials said, after Storm Ciaran swept into the country with torrential rains overnight on a path of destruction across Western Europe.

New Delhi Chokes as Annual Curse of Pollution Returns With a Vengeance

Schools closed in New Delhi on Friday, while some diesel-burning vehicles were ordered off the roads and much of the city’s incessant construction was halted, as the authorities tried to mitigate the effects of a thick haze of pollution that has descended on India’s capital, a calamity that has come to be an annual blight.

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