NewsOvernight reports: easyJet strike disrupts travel; cyberattack hits Iranian banks
Overnight reports: easyJet strike disrupts travel; cyberattack hits Iranian banks
It happened while you were sleeping. Here is what global agencies reported overnight from Wednesday to Thursday.
- At least 216 easyJet flights to Portugal and from that country's airports were cancelled by the carrier. The reason is a strike by the cabin crew of this company's branch, which started on Thursday just after midnight. As a result of the protest, scheduled for three days, thousands of passengers, especially tourists vacationing in Portugal, were forced to rebook their flights. According to the Portuguese Union of Civil Aviation Cabin Crew (SNPVAC), which supports the protest, the cancelled flights make up 70 percent of all connections planned by easyJet from Thursday to Saturday at Portuguese airports.
- Six people were injured, including one seriously, after falling from the balcony of a residential building in Hamburg, the local fire department reported late Wednesday evening. Five men and one woman fell from the third floor of a multi-family building—the balcony, where they were spending the evening, unexpectedly "folded" down by 90 degrees. However, the structure did not detach from the house facade but hung on it. The injuries of one of the men are severe and life-threatening.
- The Central Bank of Iran and several other Iranian banks fell victim to cyberattacks on Wednesday, causing significant disruption to the Iranian banking system, reported the Tehran-opposed portal Iran International. The portal, edited in London, added that this could have been one of the largest cyberattacks in history targeting Iranian infrastructure. The regime in Tehran has been trying for several hours to cover up the attack, in which hackers obtained the bank data of millions of Iranians, journalist Babak Itzhaki said on Israeli television Channel 12.
- During the fight against a large forest and meadow fire in northern Moldova, one firefighter died - reported the Moldovan Ministry of Internal Affairs late Wednesday evening. The man's body was found in the area of Rădulenii Vechi, on one of the fields affected by the blaze. Since Saturday, a heightened fire hazard warning has been in effect in Moldova due to temperatures exceeding 30°C (86°F). It will last at least until Friday.
- Ukrainian military operations are ongoing in the Kursk region of Russia. On Wednesday, regional authorities announced the evacuation of the entire Glushkovsky district.
- The two pilots who went missing after the collision of two Rafale fighters in Lorraine on Wednesday have died - French President Emmanuel Macron announced late Wednesday evening on platform X.
- Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness declared a state of emergency on Wednesday in the Clarendon region in the south of the country, where eight people, including a seven-year-old boy, died in two shootings on Sunday evening. Authorities fear retaliatory killings. The Prime Minister did not specify the exact regulations imposed under the emergency. Usually, it involves a curfew, police authority to search without a court warrant, and extending the period for which suspects can be detained without formal charges.
