President Trump asked his ambassador to Greece to step down, Russia pounded Ukraine’s energy network again and left hundreds of thousands without power, and doctors in Rome confirmed a lung cancer diagnosis for Pope Leo XIV after surgery. Overnight, Ethiopian troops reached a town on the Eritrean border, Virginia landed a manufacturing expansion worth $412.5 million, Nepal pressed its neighbours for a joint disaster plan, Tampa Bay evened the ALCS, and a Bollywood star escaped injury when a stunt car came loose.
In This Roundup
- Trump Asks Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle to Resign in Greece Post Shake-Up
- Russia Hits Ukraine Energy Sites Again, Leaving More Than 600,000 Without Power
- Pope Leo XIV Diagnosed With Lung Cancer After Surgery in Rome
- Ethiopian Troops Reach Eritrea Border Town as War Fears Grow
- M.C. Dean to Invest $412.5 Million in Caroline County, Creating 1,950 Jobs
- Nepal Calls for Stronger BIMSTEC Security and Disaster Preparedness
- Rays Beat Guardians 3-1 to Even the ALCS at One Game Each
- Emraan Hashmi Escapes Injury After Car Stunt Goes Wrong on Set
1 Trump Asks Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle to Resign in Greece Post Shake-Up
President Trump has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to step down as ambassador to Greece, the White House said on Tuesday. New press secretary Katie Zacharia announced the move at the end of her first briefing, saying the administration wished Guilfoyle well. Guilfoyle, a former Fox News personality, soon confirmed in her own statement that she would leave the post.
Guilfoyle denied the allegations that have followed her time in Athens, which include claims that she pressed a donor over a personal bill and mistreated staff, and said she intended to defend her reputation. Trump had signalled the decision a day earlier, telling a reporter the White House was not happy. Her departure leaves a prominent European post open less than a month before the midterm elections.
Source: New York Post
2 Russia Hits Ukraine Energy Sites Again, Leaving More Than 600,000 Without Power
Russia launched another heavy overnight attack on Ukraine’s energy network early Wednesday, and President Volodymyr Zelensky said more than 600,000 people were left without power. Zelensky said the barrage, aimed at Kyiv and Kharkiv, involved more than 120 drones and 39 ballistic missiles and caused serious damage to oil and gas facilities as well as the power grid.
The timing sharpened the dispute over warnings. Hours earlier, Zelensky had said Kyiv received no advance notice from its partners before a deadly strike on Tuesday, and that Ukrainian defences spotted those missiles only as they were already approaching the capital. He also pointed out that the facilities hit on Wednesday are the kind covered by the energy ceasefire President Trump announced last weekend.
This is absolutely unjust: when they (Russia) are destroying our energy infrastructure, and Ukraine is not even receiving early warnings about ballistic missile launches.
Source: CNN
3 Pope Leo XIV Diagnosed With Lung Cancer After Surgery in Rome
Pope Leo XIV is recovering in Rome after surgery on Tuesday that confirmed he has lung cancer, the Vatican said. Surgeons at Gemelli Hospital removed the lower lobe of his right lung during an operation of about 90 minutes. Tests carried out during the procedure confirmed lung adenocarcinoma, a common form of the disease, which doctors had suspected before the operation.
The Vatican said the surgery went as planned, with no complications, and that Leo woke normally before returning to his room. The 71-year-old pope had told worshippers on Sunday that doctors had found a small, localised nodule. All of his public events have been cancelled through October 20, and he is expected to spend about a week in hospital. A planned trip to South America in November remains on the schedule for now.
Source: USA Today
4 Ethiopian Troops Reach Eritrea Border Town as War Fears Grow
Ethiopian government troops have advanced to Zalambessa, a town of about 15,000 people on the border with Eritrea, according to people in contact with residents. The move extends a counter-offensive that has pushed a rebel alliance led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front back from a string of towns in the north, where fighting resumed last month.
The advance has diplomats working to keep the fighting from turning into a wider war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Witnesses and a conflict monitor said Eritrean troops had crossed into the area last week in support of the rebels, though it was not clear whether they were still there on Tuesday. Eritrea has denied any incursion and has accused Addis Ababa of looking for a pretext for war, while Ethiopia’s military did not comment on whether it now controls the town.
Source: Reuters
5 M.C. Dean to Invest $412.5 Million in Caroline County, Creating 1,950 Jobs
M.C. Dean, the Tysons-based power and technology engineering firm, will invest $412.5 million to expand its manufacturing campus in Caroline County, Gov. Abigail Spanberger announced on Tuesday. The expansion is expected to create 1,950 jobs, in what the governor described as a transformational next chapter for the company, the county and the Commonwealth.
The plan calls for two new plants: a 442,000-square-foot building on the existing main campus and a much larger 1.5 million-square-foot building on the company’s 600-acre north campus. When the work is finished, the campus is expected to cover 1,300 acres with more than 3.6 million square feet by 2030. State support includes up to $45 million allocated through the Major Employment and Investment process, pending legislative approval, and the expansion still needs to go through the county’s special exception permit process.
Source: Virginia Business
6 Nepal Calls for Stronger BIMSTEC Security and Disaster Preparedness
Nepal’s Home Minister Sudan Gurung used the first BIMSTEC home ministers’ meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday to call for closer regional cooperation on security and a shared framework for responding to disasters. The meeting ended with the Delhi Declaration, in which member states committed to working more closely together on security, 29 years after the bloc was founded.
Gurung listed terrorism, drug and human trafficking, money laundering and cybercrime among the region’s shared threats, and argued for better sharing of information and technology. He pointed to this year’s floods in Bhotekoshi, in the Manang-Mustang area and along the Budhi Gandaki in Gorkha as a reason the region needs a joint task force able to respond from the Himalayas to the sea. On the sidelines, he also raised problems Nepali businesses face in meeting Indian certification rules in talks with India’s home minister.
Source: Nepal on the Web
7 Rays Beat Guardians 3-1 to Even the ALCS at One Game Each
Tampa Bay evened the American League Championship Series on Tuesday night, beating Cleveland 3-1 in Game 2 at Tropicana Field. The game was scoreless until the fourth inning, when an error by Jose Ramirez let the first run in. Liam Hicks followed with a two-run single that gave the Rays all the runs they would need.
Cleveland got one back in the seventh on an RBI double by Chase DeLauter, but Tampa Bay’s pitching held the rest of the way and Bryan Baker closed out a perfect ninth. Neither starter allowed an earned run, and Freddy Peralta worked six scoreless innings for the Rays. The series is tied 1-1 and moves to Cleveland for Game 3 on Thursday.
Source: USA Today
8 Emraan Hashmi Escapes Injury After Car Stunt Goes Wrong on Set
Actor Emraan Hashmi escaped without injury on Tuesday after a car stunt went wrong during filming in Bengaluru for his upcoming spy thriller Gunmaaster G9. The car, which had been rigged to hang in mid-air for a climax sequence, reportedly came loose from its mechanism and dropped close to where Hashmi was standing.
Reports from the set said the vehicle landed about a foot from the actor’s face and that the shoot stopped briefly while the crew regrouped. Hashmi was not hurt. The incident was a reminder of how much action filming depends on rigging and coordination, even on a planned stunt. Gunmaaster G9 is due for release on November 27.
Source: Bollywood Hungama
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