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00:01Russia has launched another large-scale drone and missile attack on Ukraine overnight, killing at least six people.
00:11US President Donald Trump has confirmed that his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest in Hungary is now on hold.
00:20The crown jewels, stalling in a dramatic heist at Louvre, the world's most visited museum, were worth 88 million euros, according to a Paris prosecutor.
00:31Russia has launched another large-scale drone and missile attack on Ukraine overnight.
00:37The country's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack killed at least six people.
00:42According to the Ukrainian leader, Moscow primarily targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
00:48The attack also struck residential buildings and sparked several fires.
00:52Two people were killed in the Dnipro district in the capital, Kyiv, and ten people were rescued after drone debris hit a residential building and sparked a fire.
01:03In the wider Kyiv region, three other people were killed, including two children, after a strike hit a private home.
01:09The large-scale overnight aerial attack also targeted other cities in Ukraine, including Zaporizhia and the port city of Ismail in the southern Odessa region.
01:21Ukraine's energy ministers said the attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure was still underway early Wednesday, the latest in Russia's effort to cripple the country's energy system before winter.
01:31A day prior to the attack, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would delay his meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
01:40Trump said he did not want it to be a, quote, waste of time as Russia's foreign secretary, Sergey Lavrov, made it clear Moscow is opposed to an immediate ceasefire.
01:51In response, Zelenskyy once again reminded his allies that Russia can only be pressured through sanctions and long-range strike capabilities.
01:59U.S. President Donald Trump has now confirmed that his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest in Hungary is now on hold.
02:12I don't want to have a wasted meeting, I don't want to have a waste of time, so I'll see what happens.
02:16But we did all of these great deals, great peace deals, they're all peace deals, agreements, solid agreements, every one of them, but this one.
02:26And I said, go to the line, go to the line of battle, the battlefield lines, and you pull back and you go home and everybody, take some time off,
02:37because you've got two countries that are killing each other, two countries that are losing five to seven thousand soldiers a week.
02:43Trump said nothing definitive has yet been decided and promised a decision would be made within two days on whether or not he would meet with Putin.
02:51The U.S. leader has also not yet decided on whether the U.S. would provide long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine,
02:58a move Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has long been pushing for.
03:06A fire broke out at the MOL oil refinery around 10 p.m. on Monday evening.
03:11Early investigations revealed that it started in the distillation plant, the first stage of the oil refining process.
03:19The refinery's senior management say probes have also ruled out foul play and external impacts as potential causes.
03:26There was no fire. We didn't know where they were.
03:30We didn't know where they had to be.
03:31We were forced to be damaged with the fire.
03:32We were forced to cut it to the fire.
03:33In this case, we used to re-engage the fuels, and this is a strong sound effect.
03:36There was no fire.
03:37There was no fire.
03:38Nearly a hundred firefighters worked overnight to extinguish the flames.
03:39but there was no damage.
03:42Nearly a hundred firefighters worked overnight to extinguish the flames.
03:47Emergency response officials also stressed that they had not detected any harmful gases in the air.
03:53One time ago, there was a mobile lab at a time.
03:58The mobile lab was not only 100 gallons,
04:02but in the surroundings, there was a lot of measurements.
04:07It was precisely because they realized that in the air,
04:10there was no damage to the air.
04:13MOL said at a press conference that the intact parts of the refinery are gradually being restarted.
04:20They also noted that the two other distillation plants are safely operational.
04:25Officials also added that a thorough investigation can begin 24 hours after the fire is completely put out.
04:31A Paris prosecutor estimates that the Crown Jewels,
04:39stolen in a dramatic weekend Louvre heist, were worth 88 million euros
04:45and the monetary estimate doesn't include their historical value to France.
04:50Prosecutor Laure Bical, whose office is leading the investigation,
04:55said on Tuesday that about 100 investigators are now involved in the police hunt for the suspects and gems after Sunday's theft.
05:05Meanwhile, as questions continue to be asked over security,
05:08the French culture minister says the Louvre's security systems did not fail during the dual heist.
05:15No, they did not fail. It is a reality. The security systems of the Musée du Louvre have worked.
05:25And as you know, and as you know, and as you know,
05:29I have diligent an administrative investigation,
05:36which will make the details of the events that came last week.
05:42Sunday's theft from the world's most visited museum has shocked France,
05:47with some officials describing it as a blow for the country.
05:51According to local officials, eight objects were taken in the heist,
05:55which lasted eight minutes in total, including less than four minutes inside a Louvre.
06:01It's a first in the history of the European Union, a former head of state behind bars.
06:12Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France from 2007 to 2012,
06:18entered the La Santé prison right behind me in Paris this Tuesday morning.
06:24The 70 year old is serving a five year sentence for criminal conspiracy
06:29for the Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential campaign.
06:35Sarkozy has appealed the verdict as has the prosecutor's office.
06:41This morning, his sons called for a show of support near his family home in Paris,
06:48and hundreds of people gathered in support of the former president.
06:52Nicolas ! Nicolas ! Nicolas ! Nicolas ! Nicolas !
06:57C'est des habitudes qui doivent changer, c'est très bien,
07:01mais ça ne mérite absolument pas la prison pour Sarkozy.
07:09Je ressens beaucoup de tristesse, tristesse pour celui qui a été notre guide pendant cinq ans,
07:16qui a été président de notre pays, qui a mené l'Etat, la France,
07:20de la tristesse et des interrogations par rapport à cette condamnation qui semble quand même assez sévère.
07:26J'ai honte pour la France, j'ai honte pour un président qui a tellement fait, qui est sincère,
07:33qui a lutté pendant la crise des subprimes, qui a fait vraiment, puis même, je veux dire,
07:39c'est pas normal de le mettre en prison, c'est complètement absurde, ça sert à rien, absolument à rien,
07:45à part à l'humilier, à humilier la France.
07:47J'ai un peu honte, j'avoue j'ai un peu honte, mais vis-à-vis du monde entier, on revient comme des pays sous-développés presque,
07:59enfin bon, je trouve ça terrible.
08:01Once Sarkozy is officially registered as an inmate, his lawyers will immediately request his release pending appeal.
08:09The courts will have up to two months to decide, though a ruling could come much earlier.
08:16Sofia Katzenkova reporting from Paris for Euronews.
08:20If a driver gets their driving licence revoked in one EU country, it's automatically invalidated in all 26 others.
08:30This is one of the new measures approved on Tuesday by the European Parliament.
08:34It intends to stop reckless drivers from continuing to drive after having committed major traffic offenses,
08:41such as excessive speeding and driving under the influence.
08:45Lawmakers also approved a new form of permits in digital drivers licences.
08:50It's poised to become the main form of documentation in the block and will be accessible via smartphones.
08:5717-year-olds will also be able to get behind the wheel, as the block approved plans to allow them to obtain provisional licences,
09:04so long as they are accompanied by an experienced driver until they turn 18.
09:09The new rules, confirmed on the EU level, are expected to come into force within three years, pending approval at the national level.
09:18They aim to enhance road safety, as the EU looks two inch closer to its goal of halving road deaths by 2030.
09:29A court in Slovakia has sentenced the man who shot and injured Prime Minister Robert Vito to 21 years in prison on terrorism charges.
09:38The verdict was delivered on Tuesday by one of Slovakia's specialized criminal courts.
09:44The 72-year-old would-be assassin targeted the populist Slovak leader in May last year, as he was departing a government meeting.
09:53The meeting had been held in Handlova, around 140 kilometers north of the capital, Bratislava.
09:59Vito was shot in the abdomen and rushed to hospital to undergo an emergency operation, which was successful.
10:07The attacker, who refused to testify during the trial, previously said he targeted the Slovak Premier because he disagreed with his policies and pro-Russian stance.
10:17He noted that he did not intend to kill Vito and was only aiming to injure him, adding that he was relieved to hear of his survival.
10:26A cable that snapped on the Lisbon funicular, causing a crash that killed some 16 people last month, was not certified for use in public transport, an official investigation has found.
10:43According to a report released on Monday by Portugal's Accident Investigation Office, the cable had accumulated maintenance issues and did not meet specifications set by CARIS, the municipal transport operator.
10:58The report called for all Lisbon cable cars to be kept out of service for urgent modifications.
11:05The disaster, described as one of the biggest human tragedies in the country's history, unfolded after the iconic Gloria Funicular came off the rails and hurtled into a building, killing 16 people and leaving 21 others injured.
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