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What happened during the massive drone attack on Moscow and how did Russia respond?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Russia says Ukraine launched more than a thousand drones into its country, including hundreds into Moscow, as Russia was holding state elections. Moscow's mayor calls it the largest attack ever on the Russian capital. NPR's Joanna Kikis has
more. The governor of the Moscow region said the area had come under a large-scale drone attack early Sunday. Russian air defense shot down more than 240 Ukrainian attack drones. But some of those drones did hit their target, the Gazpromneft Moscow oil refinery. The Ukrainian military claims its drones damaged three units there. Videos on social media show the facility on fire.
How did Ukraine’s drone strikes align with Russia’s first parliamentary vote since 2022?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the military also struck a logistics facility in Russia. The strikes happened during the first parliamentary vote in Russia since 2022, when the Kremlin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Joanna Kakissis, NPR News, Kyiv.
Voters in Germany are going to the polls today in two key state elections amid growing pressure on Chancellor Friedrich Merz. As Empire's Esme Nicholson reports, the far right is expected to make major gains.
In the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Merz's Christian Democrats are polling at just 6%, putting the Chancellor's party at risk of failing to clear the minimum threshold to enter state parliament. Leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany, Alice Weidel, told supporters at a campaign rally, that they have the power to unseat Merz, adding that he will become very quiet next week. In the capital, where Berliners are voting for a new mayor, Merz's CDU is polling neck and neck with the far-left party Die Linke.
What are the stakes of the German state elections for Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his party?
But even here, the far-right AFD is polling just a couple of percentage points behind the frontrunners and is expected to double its share of the vote compared with the last election. For NPR News, I'm Esme Nicholson in Berlin.
A judge in Delaware is ordering Fox Corporation to produce hundreds of documents that could shed light on how founder Rupert Murdoch and his closest business associates handled some of the company's biggest scandals over the past two decades. Maddie Loria has more.
A hearing began in a rural Delaware courtroom Friday morning over a lawsuit that alleges Murdoch and other company executives operated Fox in a way that would expose the company to costly litigation. Fox shareholders filed the lawsuit around the same time the company settled a nearly $800 million defamation case related to its role in spreading conspiracy theories about voting fraud in the 2020 election. Lawyers will now have a chance to review over two decades' worth of corporate board meeting minutes, emails, text messages, and other relevant documents, including previously sealed legal filings in another ongoing case related to the 2020 election. For NPR News, I'm Maddie Luria in Georgetown, Delaware.
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
Why is a Delaware judge ordering Fox Corporation to produce documents on Rupert Murdoch’s scandals?
Singer Ed Sheeran has apologized at his concert in Philadelphia last night for making mistakes, saying the situation in Gaza is catastrophic and unjustifiable. This after the English singer's tour was thrown into chaos when the opening act, Macklemore, was dropped because of his pro-Palestinian comments made from the stage at a concert in New Jersey earlier this month. Sheeran said the promoters made that decision, and after the decision, the rest of Sheeran's opening acts also withdrew. Tens of thousands of children in Gaza are heading back to school today for the start of a new academic year. But as NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports, they're largely learning out of tents or classrooms that are still heavily damaged, this after years of war, while many other children are unable to access education at all.
More than 280,000 children are returning to school in Gaza, according to the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees. But few functioning classrooms are left, as Israeli attacks have destroyed or damaged 98% of learning facilities there, according to the UN. Instead, children are largely learning out of tents or other makeshift classrooms without proper school supplies or basics like desks or chalkboards.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What happened during the massive drone attack on Moscow and how did Russia respond?
0:00–0:43
2
How did Ukraine’s drone strikes align with Russia’s first parliamentary vote since 2022?
0:43–1:43
3
What are the stakes of the German state elections for Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his party?
1:43–3:01
4
Why is a Delaware judge ordering Fox Corporation to produce documents on Rupert Murdoch’s scandals?
3:01–4:17
5
How are Gaza’s children returning to school despite the destruction of most classrooms?
4:17–5:04