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Drone strikes in the Black Sea are raising serious alarm tonight, with attacks inside the exclusive economic zones of two nations leaving two people dead and at least twenty-five still missing. The strikes threaten one of the world's critical shipping corridors and risk pulling additional countries directly into the war in Ukraine, testing how far NATO's patience will stretch.
Shifting to energy, Uzbekistan is making a significant bet on its power future, signing four point seven billion dollars in deals with foreign firms including ACWA Power, EDF, and Toyota Tsusho. The agreements cover three thousand megawatts of generating capacity and four hundred megawatts of storage, with Tashkent also eyeing a future electricity connection to Europe and opening one hundred twenty-eight oil and gas blocks to outside investors.
And in Gaza, more than forty-four thousand people remain in buildings officially marked for demolition, with nowhere else to go as winter approaches. Tarpaulin prices have doubled, and Israel continues to block timber and shelter kits from entering the territory, leaving families in places like Al-Mughraqa with few options and little hope of relief.
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