A woman is killed near Moscow after more than 140 Ukrainian drones target Russia, officials say

(AP) — Officials say over 140 Ukrainian drones targeted multiple Russian regions overnight, including Moscow and surrounding areas, in one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian soil in the 2 1/2-year war. A Russian regional governor says drones hit two multistory residential buildings and started fires in the town of Ramenskoye just outside Moscow. A woman was killed and eight people were injured. He says five residential buildings were evacuated due to falling drone debris. The attack also prompted the authorities to temporarily shut down three airports just outside Moscow. A total of 48 flights were diverted.

An Israeli strike on a Palestinian tent camp kills at least 19

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike hit a crowded tent camp in Gaza, killing at least 19 people and wounding 60. Israel says it targeted senior Hamas militants with precise munitions. The strike early Tuesday occurred in Muwasi, a sprawl of crowded tent camps along the Gaza coast that Israel designated as a humanitarian zone for hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians to seek shelter from the nearly year-old Israel-Hamas war. Associated Press video showed three large craters at the scene. First responders dug through the sand and rubble with garden tools and their bare hands, using mobile phone flashlights until the sun came up.

Pope Francis’ Mass in East Timor draws 600,000 people

TASITOLU, East Timor (AP) — The Vatican says some 600,000 people have attended Pope Francis’ Mass in East Timor, or nearly half the country’s population. It’s held Tuesday on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed in 1989 during the nation’s fight for independence from Indonesia. While other papal Masses have drawn millions of people in more populous countries and there were certainly other nationalities attending Tuesday’s Mass, the crowd in small East Timor is believed to represent the biggest turnout for a papal event ever, in terms of the proportion of the population.

First doses of mpox vaccine from the United States arrive in Congo

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities in Congo say 50,000 doses of the mpox vaccine from the United States have arrived in the country. The arrival on Tuesday came a week after the first batch arrived from the European Union. Around 250,000 doses overall have arrived in Congo so far. That’s a fraction of the 3 million doses authorities have said are needed to end the mpox outbreaks in the country which is the epicenter of the global health emergency. There have been 5,549 confirmed mpox cases across the continent since the start of 2024 with 643 associated deaths. That represents a sharp escalation in both infections and fatalities compared to previous years.