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UK: Three suspected Russian spies arrested after major security investigation; 12 killed after huge explosion near Dominican Republic capital; Typhoon Lan makes landfall in Japan, thousands told to seek safety; Ukraine’s western region hit by large-scale Russian air attack
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00:00 Three suspected Russian spies have been arrested and charged in the United Kingdom after a
00:11 major national security investigation, British media reported on Tuesday.
00:15 According to the reports, all three defendants have been in detention since February.
00:19 All three alleged spies are said to have been working for the Russian security services
00:23 and were identified as Bulgarian nationals.
00:25 They were reportedly arrested earlier this year under the Official Secrets Act by counterterrorism
00:30 detectives from the Metropolitan Police, which deals with espionage cases in the UK.
00:34 They had passports, identity cards and other documents for the UK, Bulgaria, France, Italy,
00:39 Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece and the Czech Republic.
00:46 The death toll after an explosion near the Dominican Republic's capital in a market
00:50 area has risen to at least 12, including a four-month-old baby.
00:53 This comes after the initial death toll reported by the country's National Health Service was
00:57 three.
00:58 The explosion occurred on Monday at a business in San Cristobal, west of the country's capital,
01:02 Santo Domingo.
01:03 So far, at least 12 people have been killed and another 65 people have been injured, according
01:07 to reports.
01:09 According to the country's emergency services, the explosion occurred at a bakery and prompted
01:12 evacuations from nearby areas after black smoke rose from the city centre and quickly
01:16 spread across several blocks.
01:19 More than 800 flights were cancelled and tens of thousands of homes lost power as a slow-moving
01:27 typhoon made landfall in western Japan early on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue
01:31 flood and landfall warnings.
01:32 Approaching from the Pacific Ocean, Typhoon Lan hit the southern tip of Wakayama Prefecture,
01:37 400km southwest of Tokyo.
01:39 Lan, which has since been downgraded to a severe tropical storm, lashed wide spots of
01:43 central and western Japan with heavy rains and powerful winds.
01:47 The typhoon had sustained winds of 150km/h and was moving northwest across the western
01:51 part of the main island of Honshu at around 15km/h.
01:55 Television footage showed rivers gushing and on the verge of bursting their banks.
01:59 Homes and stores suffered water damage to their floors and in Nara City, strong winds
02:03 had fell, scaffolding at a construction site.
02:06 Power outages hit almost 90,000 households in central and western Japan, according to
02:10 regional utilities.
02:15 Russian airstrikes hit two western regions of Ukraine, bordering NATO member Poland and
02:19 other areas on Tuesday, killing three people and wounding more than a dozen.
02:22 Russia launched a large-scale air attack on Ukraine's western region of Lviv and the northwestern
02:27 region of Poland, hitting buildings, wounding civilians and forcing evacuations.
02:31 According to local media, the attacks were the largest air assault on the Lviv region
02:35 since the Russian invasion in February 2022.
02:38 Four people required medical assistance and more than 100 residential apartments were
02:41 damaged in the attack, including a kindergarten that was destroyed by falling debris from
02:45 a destroyed Russian missile.
02:46 Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi informed on the Telegram messaging app.
02:51 At least two people were also injured in a Russian air attack on the city of Lutsk in
02:54 Ukraine's Volyn region.
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