By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Africanews
Greek authorities have announced the discovery of 14 bodies aboard a migrant boat found on Monday off the Greek island of Crete. The toll adds to the series of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, according to Africanews.
The Moroccan container ship CMA CGM SAHARA rescued 18 migrants off Crete on Monday 9 November, before transferring them to a Greek patrol boat. Thirteen bodies were found on board the vessel, and a fourteenth migrant died in hospital, according to Greek coastguard sources cited by Yabiladi.
🇬🇷 Greece · Source: Yabiladi ·
A Russian drone damaged rescue equipment in Komyshuvakha, Ukraine, without injuring teams searching for people missing after a 2 November bombardment. The death toll from the strike has reached 55, while 45 people remain missing, according to Ukrainian authorities.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Source: Bénin Web TV ·
Hacked data from Rosstat, Russia's statistics agency, published by Bloomberg records around 400,000 Russian deaths linked to the war in Ukraine. The tally, based on death certificates, remains below the actual losses, according to Le Monde.
🇷🇺 Russia · Source: Le Monde ·
Three contract workers died of asphyxiation on Monday at a Tata Electronics plant in Hosur, Tamil Nadu, in southern India, during maintenance work on an effluent treatment station, according to TimesLIVE. The plant assembles around 40% of Apple’s iPhones in India.
🇮🇳 India · Source: TimesLIVE ·
Russia and Ukraine resume US-backed talksRussian and Ukrainian officials met on Tuesday 10 November in the first talks held under US auspices since February. The resumption follows Donald Trump’s claim that a comprehensive agreement to end the war in Ukraine was possible, according to France 24.The week in Africa
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