Friday, November 3, 2023

Partisans burn car of head of Russian missile production plant

"The resistance movement burned a Volvo XC90 in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod on
the night of 2-3 November. The owner of the car is
Russian Igor Kuznetsov, Director General of the State Scientific Research Institute of Machine Building Bakhirev (GosNIImash)." Pravada

Zelenskyy military shake-up continues as new face takes over Ukraine's elite Special Operations Forces

"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed a new commander of the Special
Operations Forces, Colonel Serhiy Lupanchuk, according to a decree published on the President's website."
VoicesOfUkraine

Ukrainian forces repelled a new Russian assault near Vuhledar

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President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces repelled a new Russian assault near the town of Vuhledar between the eastern and southern front lines in eastern Donetsk." AlJazeera

Russians launch missile attack on village in Zaporizhzhia region

"Russian invaders have launched a missile attack on the village of Zarichne of the
Komyshuvakha community, Zaporizhzhia district, wounding 11 local residents."
Ukkrin

Tourists killed in Uganda

"The army announced the capture of Abdul Rashid Kyoto, also known as Njovu, and the death
of six other members of the commando group accused of murdering a
British and a South African honeymooner and their guide in Queen Elizabeth Park. The ADF rebels, affiliated to the jihadist group Islamic State, have previously been accused by the Ugandan authorities of attacking a school in the western town of Mpondwe in which 42 people were killed, and another in Kasindi, in eastern DRC, in which four people were killed, including two Ugandan soldiers." AfricanNews

Israeli families bring genocide complaint against Hamas to ICC

"The families of nine Israeli victims of last month’s Hamas attacks have lodged a complaint at
the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide, according to their lawyer.
The families also want
Hamas, the group that governs Gaza, prosecuted for suspected war crimes, and for the ICC to issue an international arrest warrant for its leaders, lawyer Francois Zimeray said. Hamas carried out raids that Israeli officials say killed more than 1,400 people." AP

Jordanian national arrested in Houston allegedly planned attack on Jews

"A “radical” Jordanian national living in Texas was allegedly plotting an attack on Houston’s
Jewish community before he was arrested on gun charges.Sohaib Abuayyash, 20, had been studying how to build bombs and posted about his support for killing Jews, federal officials claim.

He has viewed specific and detailed content posted by radical organizations on the Internet, including lessons on how to construct bombs or explosive devices,” FBI Director Chris Wray told the Senate Homeland Security Committee, though he declined to identify Abuayyash by name.“And that defendant has made statements to others that support the killing of individuals of particular religious faiths.”Abuayyash even allegedly made a direct reference in one social media post about an event in Houston for the Jewish community, according to court documents obtained by CNN. MS

Eruption of Eurasia's tallest active volcano sends ash columns above a Russian peninsula

"Huge ash columns erupted from Eurasia's tallest active volcano, forcing authorities to close
schools in two towns on
Russia's sparsely populated Kamchatka Peninsula.
The eruptions from the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano sent ash as high as 8 miles. The Kamchatka Peninsula, which extends into the Pacific Ocean about 6,700 kilometers (4,100 miles) east of Moscow." MS

Residents on 'Edge' Facing 2.5K Earthquakes as Italian Supervolcano Rumbles

"Italy’s government has been preparing for a possible mass evacuation of tens of thousands of residents due to a supervolcano that has caused 2,500 earthquakes since September, several media outlets reported.
Residents in the city of Pozzuoli, which is outside of Naples, are concerned about the recent activity since they live in the volcanic area of Campi Flegrei ....“It’s nonstop earthquakes here,” said Luca Averna....a supervolcano is defined as “a volcanic center that has had an eruption of magnitude 8 on the Volcano Explosivity Index (VEI), meaning that at one point in time, it erupted more than 240 cubic miles of material.” Relatedly, a “supereruption” is a term that describes VEI 8 eruptions. A phenomenon known as bradyseism has been attributed to the increase of recent earthquakes in the Campi Flegrei area, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Christopher Kilburn, a professor of volcanology and geophysical hazards at University College London, told NBC News that he thinks that the activity at Campi Flegrei is due to a change in the structure of the volcano’s crust." MS

Russian mass drone attack against Ukraine hits infrastructure, civilian sites overnight

"Russia used around 40 kamikaze drones and a Kh-59 missile to attack the country.... Air
defenses were at work in Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Vinnytsia, and Khmelnytskyi oblasts...Four of the 40 drones targeted the northeastern city of Kharkiv, causing large-scale fires and damaging a residential building, an educational institution, a service station, an administrative building, outbuildings, cars, and garages."
AP