GERMANY: Many households and businesses in south-west Berlin face days without electricity after high-voltage power lines were damaged by a fire blamed on an attack by “left-wing extremists.”

The fire broke out on Saturday morning on a cable bridge over the Teltow canal near the Lichterfelde power plant.

“It is unacceptable that, once again, clearly left-wing extremists have attacked our power grid and thereby endangered human lives,” claimed Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner.

UKRAINE: One person was killed and two wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a car in the Russian border region of Belgorod, local officials said today.

In Ukraine, three people were wounded in the Kharkiv region in drone strikes on Saturday night.

Meanwhile, the death toll from Friday’s Russian missile attack on Kharkiv rose to four when two more bodies were found in rubble.

GAMBIA: Dozens of people are missing after a boat carrying more than 200 migrants trying to reach Europe capsized off the coast, President Adama Barrow has said, setting off a frantic search and rescue operation.

At least 102 survivors have been rescued and seven bodies recovered from the boat, which capsized on New Year’s Eve off north-west Gambia’s North Bank region, Mr Barrow said in a broadcast.

KOREAN PENINSULA: North Korea launched multiple ballistic missiles towards its eastern waters today, just hours before South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung left for China for talks expected to cover North Korea’s nuclear programme.

South Korea’s military said it had detected several ballistic missile launches from North Korea’s capital region at about 7.50am.