General NewsOvernight reports: Israeli strike kills PFLP leaders in Beirut; FPOe wins Austrian vote
Overnight reports: Israeli strike kills PFLP leaders in Beirut; FPOe wins Austrian vote
It happened while you were sleeping. Here's what global agencies recorded during the night from Sunday to Monday.
- The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced early Monday morning that three of its leaders were killed in an Israeli attack on a residential block in downtown Beirut. The strike targeted a building in the Kola district, an area bustling with shops and restaurants. According to witnesses, a drone hit one of the upper floors where the PFLP leaders were staying. Unofficial information from the Lebanese Civil Defense, cited by the Associated Press, suggested that a member of the Sunni group al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya, a political and military group allied with Hezbollah, was also killed.
- On Sunday evening, the election commission announced the official results of the National Council elections, the lower house of the Austrian parliament. After counting the votes cast at polling stations, it was determined that the Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) came first with 28.8 percent of the votes, while the ruling Austrian People's Party (OeVP) came in second with 26.3 percent. Representatives from the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPOe), which received 21.1 percent of the votes, New Austria and Liberal Forum (NEOS) with 9.2 percent, and the Greens (Gruene) with 8.3 percent will also be seated in the National Council.
- During the night, from Sunday to Monday, Kyiv faced multiple attacks by waves of Russian drones. The air defense systems of the Ukrainian capital fended off these attacks for many hours, reported the Ukrainian army early Monday morning. Witnesses cited by Reuters described numerous explosions and targets hit in the night sky.
- The SpaceX Crew-9 capsule, which launched on Saturday from the Space Launch Complex-40, safely arrived at the International Space Station. Two astronauts, Nick Hague from NASA and Aleksandr Gorbunov from Roscosmos, were onboard. They will conduct a five-month scientific mission aboard the ISS. After the mission, they will return to Earth with American astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who arrived at the ISS in June aboard Boeing's Starliner.
