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Monday, 12 October 2026

Russian drones hit Kyiv hours after Trump's power-plant truce, as dear diesel squeezes farms and charities

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Attacks on power plants and data centres High ↑
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  • World

    A Russian drone hit a power plant in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, hours after Donald Trump announced a truce on power and fuel sites. The Houthis, an armed group in Yemen, said they hit oil sites in eastern Saudi Arabia.

  • Tech

    Ukraine knocked out a third data centre of Yandex, the Russian tech giant, in four days, and taxi and banking apps failed as far away as Kazakhstan. Iran's security chief named the Gulf's data centres and undersea cables as targets if heavy fighting returns.

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  • World

    Donald Trump lifted sanctions on Russian diesel to bring down US fuel prices before the 3 November vote.

  • Climate

    British farmers say the cheap red diesel their tractors burn has almost doubled in price since February. Higher oil prices have drawn more thieves to the oilfields of Texas and New Mexico.

  • Food

    Ranchers in Nebraska, a US farm state, are paying more for diesel, for the steel in their fences and for machine repairs.

  • Money

    Daft as a Brush, a charity that drives cancer patients to hospital in north-east England, now spends 5,000 pounds a month more on diesel than a year ago.

  • Finance

    India buys about 90% of its crude oil abroad, so dear oil pushes down the rupee, India's currency.

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  • Finance

    India's ten-year borrowing rate rose to 7.35%, its highest since 2023. The IFS, a UK research group, says higher borrowing costs add about 10 billion pounds to Britain's bill in 2029-30.

  • Money

    The Mortgage Bankers Association, the US home lenders' group, expects 30-year home loan rates to stay above 7% until the end of 2027. British banks say more credit card loans went unpaid in the three months to August, and they expect more to.

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  • Biotech

    US measles cases reached 4,080, the worst year since 1991, after vaccination fell below the 95% needed to stop outbreaks.

  • Mind & body

    Flu in England was higher in September than in any of the past four seasons. More than 100 Americans fell ill from raw milk this summer.

  • Food

    Three Salmonella outbreaks in the UK have made more than 650 people ill and killed two. Officials in Oregon, a US state, are hunting another outbreak that has reached other states.

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