Friday 9th October 2026. Ukraine bus strike. Spain Maricarmen. US Trump accounts. Yemen counterattacks. Japan beer fix. Seychelles tortoise.
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Friday 9th October 2026. Ukraine bus strike. Spain Maricarmen. US Trump accounts. Yemen counterattacks. Japan beer fix. Seychelles tortoise.

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 20267 min
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Starting in Europe today. In Ukraine, a Russian airstrike on a bus and bus stop killed at

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Good morning. This is CEN7 World News in 7 minutes. I'm Stephen Devin-Chenze. Today is Friday 9th October 2026. Starting in Europe today. In Ukraine, a Russian airstrike on a bus and bus stop killed at least 33 civilians yesterday. The guided aerial bomb hit the bus in the city of Kramatorsk

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in the eastern Donetsk region. Three people were also killed by artillery fire on a village near Kramatorsk. On Wednesday, at least 22 people, including five children, were killed in the northern region of Chernihiv when a Russian strike on an apartment building caused the building to collapse. British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is in Ukraine and visited

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the destroyed building yesterday. He said that these attacks were a sign of Putin's evil and announced new sanctions on Russia. But I'm here to say we are not just going to say words of support, we are going to offer of these of support as well. So today we're announcing more sanctions on Russia, on the

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