All four international airports around Moscow temporarily suspended flights Tuesday as Russian forces intercepted more than 100 Ukrainian drones fired at almost a dozen Russian regions, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said.
Nine other regional Russian airports also temporarily stopped operating as drones struck areas along the border with Ukraine and deeper inside Russia, according to Russia’s civil aviation agency, Rosaviatsia, and the defense ministry.
German lawmakers are set to vote on the country’s next chancellor again on Tuesday afternoon, hours after conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to win the first round in parliament in a historic defeat.
Merz had been expected to sail through the vote to become the 10th chancellor since World War II. No postwar candidate for chancellor has ever failed to win on the first ballot.
A small boat believed to be carrying migrants capsized early Monday off San Diego’s coast and left three people dead and four injured, while U.S. Coast Guard crews were searching for seven others, officials said.
U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Chris Sappey said it was unclear where the boat was coming from before it flipped shortly after sunrise about 35 miles north of the Mexico border.
Miles Schiffer can be reached at schi9629@stthomas.edu.
