A view shows a street after a Russian drone strike, which local authorities consider to be Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Shahed-136, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 17, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram that there was an explosion in the city’s central Shevchenkivskyi district on Monday morning. He later reported on a second blast in the same district.
Sounds of explosions were heard in the city of Kiev on Monday morning, Ukrainian media report.
Earlier on Monday, an air raid warning was issued in the Kiev region, as well as the city of Kiev, according to the regional and city authorities.
According to Ukrainian media reports, as of 06:15 local time on Monday (03:15 GMT), air raid warnings were in effect in the Zhitomir, Vinnitsa, Cherkasy, Kirovograd, Nikolaev and Odessa regions.
Explosions were reported in various parts of Ukraine late on Sunday night, including the cities of Nikolaev and Odessa. In Nikolaev, a fire erupted at a fuel storage site after the blasts, according to Ukrainian media reports.
According to regional authorities, critical infrastructure sites were targeted in the Sumy and Dnepropetrovsk regions on Monday morning. A fire erupted at an energy infrastructure site in the Dnepropetrovsk region after the blast.
The attacks came exactly one week after Russia unleashed its heaviest aerial bombardment of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities since the start of the war - also during morning rush hour.
Russia has accused Ukraine of hitting targets in Belgorod region near the border. Pro-Russian news sources on the Telegram social media app reported that Ukraine had struck Belgorod's airport overnight. There was no immediate comment from Kyiv, which typically does not comment on incidents in Russia.
Elsewhere on Monday, renewed Russian shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe's largest, caused it to be disconnected again from Ukraine's power grid, Ukrainian state energy firm Energoatom said.
In southern central Ukraine, a large fire broke out at an energy facility in the Dnipropetrovsk region after an overnight missile hit, a local official said. Ukraine also reported strikes that set ablaze a sunflower oil terminal in the southern port of Mykolaiv.
Tim SAR gabungan saat pencarian Andini (15) siswi SMPIT Al Hikmah Depok, yang hanyut di Curug Kembar, Desa Batulayang, Kecamatan Cisarua, Kabupaten Bogor, Senin, 17/10/2022. Dia ditemukan dalam keadaan meninggal dunia. Foto/IST
Tim SAR gabungan akhirnya menemukan Andini (15) siswi SMPIT Al Hikmah Depok, yang hanyut di Curug Kembar, Desa Batulayang, Kecamatan Cisarua, Kabupaten Bogor, harinSenin, 17/10/2021. Dia ditemukan dalam keadaan meninggal dunia.
Dengan begitu, tim SAR telah menemukan seluruh korban hanyut di Curug Kembar yang terjadi pada Rabu (12/10). Mereka yakni Tara Taskin (13), Amira Hana (14), Raka Alfa (13) dan Andini (15).
Kapolsek Cisarua, Kompol Supriatno mengungkapkan, Andini pertama kali ditemuka warga sekitar. Jasadnya ditemukan tersangkut bebatuan, tidak jauh dari lokasi awal Andini dilaporkan hilang.
“Ditemukannya sekitar jam 10.30 WIB. Nggak terlalu jauh cuma agak lumayan medannya. Ada yang dalam. Ditemukan kayak nyangkut di batu,” kata Supriatno.
Setelah korban hanyut di Curug Kembar ditemukan, tim SAR langsung melakukan evakuasi terhadap jenazah Andini. “Setelah itu, dibawa ke RSUD Ciawi untuk keperluan visum. “Dibawa ke RSUD Ciawi. Divisum dulu,” kata dia.
Empat orang pelajar SMP Al Hikmah Depok, terseret arus di sekitaran Curug Kembar RT06/04, Desa Batulayang, Kecamatan Cisarua, Kabupaten Bogor, pada hari Rabu, 12/10/2022.
Namun, tiga orang ditemukan meninggal dunia pada hari sama. Yakni Tara Taskin (13) ditemukan 18.30 WIB, kemudian Amira Hana (14) ditemukan pukul 21.22 WIB dan Raka Alfa (13) ditemukan pukul 21.43 WIB.
Sementara korban hilang yakni Andini (15) ditemukan hari Senin, 17/10/2022, sekitar pukul 10.30 WIB.
Danton BPBD Kabupaten Bogor, Rifai mengungkapkan, jenazah Andini ditemukan sekitar 6 kilometer dari titik nol pencarian, tepatnya di Kampung Batu Kasur RT06/03, Desa Batulayang, Kecamatan Cisarua.
“Korban yang hanyut di Curug Kembar langsung diveakuasi dan langsung dibawa ke RSUD ciawi untuk diserahterimakan kepada pihak keluarga,” kata Rifai.
Empat Program Studi (Prodi) Fakultas Matematika dan Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam Universitas Indonesia (FMIPA UI) berhasil meraih akreditasi internasional dari Akkreditierungsagentur fur Studiengange der Ingenieurwissenschaften, der Informatik, der Naturwissenschaften und der Mathematik (ASIIN). Akreditasi ini untuk penjaminan kualitas suatu program bergelar dalam disiplin ilmu teknik, informatika, ilmu alam, dan matematika.
Keempat prodi tersebut, yakni S1 Matematika, S1 Fisika, S1 Biologi, dan S1 Geografi. Empat prodi itu terakreditasi ASIIN terhitung mulai 14 Juni 2022 hingga 15 Oktober 2023.
ASIIN merupakan lembaga independen berbasis di Jerman untuk penjaminan kualitas suatu program bergelar dalam displin ilmu teknik, informatika, ilmu alam, dan matematika. Sejak 2000, lembaga tersebut memiliki hak untuk memberikan stempel akreditasi dari Dewan Akreditasi Jerman, selain stempel kualitas ASIIN. ASIIN terdaftar pada European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) hingga 31 Agustus 2026.
Rencana akreditasi keempat prodi tersebut telah dimulai pada Januari 2021, lalu pada Februari 2021 dibentuk tim ASIIN fakultas dan tim masing-masing prodi. Tim bergerak cepat bekerja pada Maret 2021 dan membuat satu joint Self Assessment Report (SAR).
“Ternyata, keempat prodi dijadikan satu cluster, sehingga harus membuat satu joint SAR,” kata Kepala Unit Penjaminan Mutu Akademik FMIPA UI Denny R Silaban dalam keterangan tertulis, Senin, 17 Oktober 2022.
Hal ini menjadi tantangan tersendiri karena tim fakultas dan tim keempat prodi harus bekerja bersama dan berkoordinasi secara intens di saat pandemi. Visitasi ASIIN secara virtual telah dilakukan pada akhir Februari 2022, di antaranya melalui video yang memuat konten sarana dan prasarana berbagai laboratorium di fakultas-fakultas tersebut.
EQAR termasuk dalam daftar register akreditasi yang diakui oleh pemerintah Indonesia. Dekan FMIPA UI Dede Djuhana mengatakan dengan terakreditasinya prodi-prodi tersebut secara keseluruhan FMIPA UI saat ini telah memiliki lima prodi terakreditasi internasional.
"Termasuk prodi S1 Kimia oleh Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)," tutur Dede.
Dede menyebut saat ini pihaknya sedang menyiapkan visitasi daring akreditasi internasional RSC untuk Prodi S2 Kimia yang rencananya pada awal November 2022. Selain itu, tiga Prodi Pascasarjana FMIPA UI, yaitu S2 Ilmu Fisika, S2 Ilmu Material, dan S2 Biologi juga sedang dalam persiapan akreditasi ASIIN.
Dede menuturkan capaian akreditasi internasional ini sekaligus membuktikan FMIPA UI mampu meningkatkan Indikator Kinerja Utama (IKU) poin 8 yaitu jumlah prodi berstandar internasional. Dia menegaskan tujuan perolehan akreditasi ASIIN bukan semata-mata untuk mendapatan sertifikat saja, melainkan sebagai komitmen FMIPA UI meningkatkan mutu pendidikan berkelanjutan dan memantapkan daya saing FMIPA UI di tingkat internasional.
“Setelah mendapat sertifikat bukan berarti kerja keras kita selesai, tapi justru kita harus menjaga komitmen untuk terus meningkatkan mutu pendidikan secara berkelanjutan,” ujar dia.
Dede mengapresasi jajaran dan sivitas akademika FMIPA UI yang telah bekerja keras menyelesaikan segala proses panjang demi memperoleh akreditasi. Dia mendorong semua prodi yang telah mendapatkan akreditasi internasional aktif menjalin kerja sama internasional di bidang pendidikan melalui program double degree, in bound, out bound, dan sebagainya.
Presiden Iran, Ebrahim Raisi dan Presiden Amerika Serikat, Joe Biden/Net
Iran menuding Amerika Serikat sebagai provokator di balik kekacauan yang melanda negeri itu selama berminggu-minggu hingga menewaskan ratusan nyawa.
Presiden Iran Ebrahim Raisi pada hari Minggu, 16/10/2022, mengatakan bahwa pernyataan Presiden AS Joe Biden tentang dukungannya untuk para demonstran atas kematian Mahsa Amini, dianggap sebagai hasutan untuk masyarakat Iran yang dapat menjadi pemicu banyaknya kekacauan di negara itu.
Raisi mengatakan ia teringat perkataan mendiang pemimpin Agung Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, yang menyebut bahwa Amerika adalah setan besar.
“Pernyataan presiden Amerika, yang menghasut kekacauan, teror, dan penghancuran negara lain, berfungsi sebagai pengingat kata-kata abadi pendiri Republik Islam, yang menyebut Amerika Setan Besar,” kata Raisi, merujuk pada perkataan Ruhollah Khomeini, yang dimuat Malaymail pada hari Senin, 17/10/2022.
Biden mengatakan pada hari Jumat, 14/10/2022, bahwa dia akan berdiri bersama warga dan para wanita pemberani di Iran. Biden memperkirakan, Iran tidak akan tenang untuk waktu yang lama.
“Itu mengejutkan saya, apa yang terbangun di Iran. Itu membangkitkan sesuatu yang menurut saya tidak akan tenang untuk waktu yang sangat lama,” ujar Biden, sembari menyerukan agar pemerintah Iran berhenti menggunakan kekerasan kepada warganya sendiri, serta meminta Iran untuk menjalankan hak-hak warga negaranya.
Sementara itu, juru bicara urusan luar negeri Iran, Nasser Kanani pada Minggu juga menanggapi komentar Biden.
“Iran terlalu kuat untuk digoyahkan oleh campur tangan, oleh seorang politisi yang lelah dengan kegagalan bertahun-tahun. Kami akan bersama-sama mempertahankan kemerdekaan Iran,” tulis Kanani yang diunggah melalui Instagramnya.
AS pada dua pekan lalu telah menjatuhkan sanksi pada tujuh pejabat senior Iran karena terlibat dalam tindakan kekerasan. Sementara Departemen Keuangan AS bulan lalu juga telah menjatuhkan sanksi pada polisi moral Iran.
Menanggapi sanksi serta perkataan dari Presiden Biden tersebut, Raisi menambahkan akan melawan plot musuh yang mencoba mencampuri urusan negaranya dengan langkah-langkah yang efektif, untuk dapat menyelesaikan masalah rakyat.
Banjir di Blitar Jawa Timur (Foto: Suaraindonesia)
Hujan deras yang mengguyur sejumlah wilayah di Jawa Timur semalam menyebabkan banjir di sejumlah daerah. Di Malang, Jember sampai Banyuwangi.
Di kawasan Matraman, sejumlah wilayah di Kabupaten Blitar juga mengalami hal serupa. Hujan deras mengguyur wilayah Kecamatan Sutojayan, Kabupaten Blitar, hingga mengakibatkan banjir setinggi perut orang dewasa, hari Minggu malam, 16/10/2022.
Salah seorang warga Kelurahan Sutojayan Novi mengatakan, siang ini ketinggian air yang masuk ke pemukiman warga sudah menyentuh perut orang dewasa.
Novi, bersama keluarga memilih untuk bertahan di rumah sembari menunggu hujan reda dan air luapan yang menggenangi jalan ataupun tempat tinggal warga surut.
"Saya harap pemerintah daerah segera mengambil langkah cepat karena saat banjir seperti ini banyak warung dan toko tutup. Jadi kalau bisa ada bantuan untuk masyarakat," imbuhnya.
Sementara Kabid Kedaruratan dan Logistik BPBD Kabupaten Blitar Windu menjelaskan, hujan deras ini ada dua lokasi di Kecamatan Sutojayan yang terendam banjir yakni Kelurahan Sutojayan dan Desa Bacem.
Ia juga menambahkan, petugas BPBD mulai melakukan proses evakuasi warga lantaran air sudah menyentuh setinggiborang dewasa.
"Sehingga kami, harus melarikan mereka dibawa ke tempat yang aman agar tidak panik," tututnya
Video Sungai di Banyuwangi Meluap, Puluhan Rumah Terendam Banjir hingga Alami Kerusakan
Video yang diunggah oleh akun instagram @bwitoday, terlihat banjir merendam Perumahan Taman Sutri Indah. Banjir juga mengakibatkan kerusakan pada sejumlah rumah warga.
Dalam video tampak seorang warga berjalan di tengah banjir. Terlihat ketinggian air mencapai pinggul orang dewasa.
Perekam juga memperlihatkan kondisi rumah yang rusak akibat diterjang banjir.
Aliran air yang begitu deras menjebol tembok rumah warga. Bahkan membuat kanopi sampai hampir roboh.
Banjir juga membawa sampah berupa kayu dan ranting pohon.
Liz Truss' premiership is looking increasingly in peril after five weeks of navigating the country through an economic storm. On Friday, she sacked her top finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, and shelved her ambitious plan to reduce corporation tax. Meanwhile, the new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is said to be undoing Truss' other flagship policies.
"The premiership of Liz Truss is in grave danger," said Alistair Jones, associate professor of politics at De Montfort University in the UK. "The track record in the five weeks she's been in office has been absolutely abysmal where the UK economy has done very, very badly. Global confidence in the government and the way it's planning on running things has been massively undermined. The knock-on effect of this has been for Liz Truss to sack her chancellor of the exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, even though he was implementing the policies that she wanted to be implemented."
Jones explained that the entire campaign that Truss ran to become Conservative Party leader "was based around cutting taxes and also targeting some aspects of reduced spending, but basically trying to get the economy to grow." She vehemently criticized those who threw the viability of her plan into question as part of "anti-growth coalition," the academic noted, adding that eventually "this backfired massively, because so many international organizations questioned what she was doing."
However, markets reacted negatively to the Truss Cabinet's mini-budget, announced by then-Chancellor Kwarteng late last month. Borrowing and mortgage costs went up, while the pound sterling went down. Notably, the UK prime minister's decision to fire her chancellor and make a U-turn on her flagship tax-cutting policy on October 14 did not end the market turmoil: the British pound and government bonds fell again.
"Never before has Britain found itself in such a humiliatingly risible position," The Atlantic remarked on Friday. "It is the stuff of nightmares: the national equivalent of getting caught short onstage in front of your entire school because you chose not to go to the bathroom when you had the chance.
"The knock-on effect of this, though, has been for the Conservative Party to lose even more confidence in Liz Truss as prime minister," noted Jones. "Now it must be borne in mind that when the leadership election started, which she eventually won, about 50 MPs out of the 350 odd Conservative MPs actually backed. So you're talking therefore one in seven. In this respect, she did not have the support of Conservative MPs. Even though she won the election and many of them rallied round behind her - the reality is their support at best was lukewarm."
According to the professor, Truss "has done huge amounts of damage to the economy and to her party and to the credibility of the country in a very short space of time." He presumed that the appointment of Jeremy Hunt as the new chancellor looks like "a lack of confidence in Liz Truss."
Indeed, the British press of all stripes describes Hunt as the only adult in the room. The Guardian noted that the former health secretary is seen as "the most powerful man in government." The Spectator agreed: "Truss is now prime minister in name only: Jeremy Hunt, her chancellor of the exchequer, now holds power."
According to the media, Hunt has repudiated the prime minister's mini-budget and is now working on a medium-term financial strategy at the Treasury, while operating in tandem with Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England. A newly-empowered Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) approves of Hunt's approach. "Each of these institutions – the Bank, the Treasury and the OBR – were treated with disdain by Truss and Kwarteng," The Spectator added.
"There is speculation that Liz Truss will be gone potentially in a matter of days if not weeks. And the reason being the lack of confidence in her ability to lead the party," Jones noted. "Her Cabinet was made up of allies rather than trying to unify the party, and they were basically simply isolated from the rest of the party. Her speeches, and even with the sacking of Kwasi Kwarteng, that particular press conference, instilled little or no confidence in her ability to lead."
"One of them, possibly Mordaunt, [would] be prime minister," the academic continued. "And if she was to be prime minister, Rishi Sunak would be head chancellor of the exchequer and Jeremy Hunt could choose whatever job he wanted. Apart from those two, if Sunak was to become prime minister, Jeremy Hunt, as speculated, will stay in post as chancellor and Penny Mordaunt will become deputy prime minister and also foreign secretary."
As of yet, this is all speculation, because there is a whole argument about whether or not the Conservative Party wants to go through the turmoil of another leadership election, according to the professor.
There are many various potential successors being considered in the press: from Secretary of State for Defense Ben Wallace to former Chancellor Rishi Sunak. What saves Truss at the moment is that "there is no common consensus on who would be best placed to take over," according to The Spectator. Nonetheless, the British media doesn't rule out that the patience of British MPs will soon become extremely thin resulting in Truss' ouster.
The Druzhba pipeline carrying Russian oil from Siberia to Central Europe suffered a leak earlier this week. The Polish operator said it was still investigating the cause of the leak.
The Druzhba pipeline, which transfers Russian crude oil to Germany and other Central European countries, has been fixed after a leak was reported earlier this week.
Polish state-run pipeline operator PERN said the pipeline was now fully operational.
"PERN's technical services restored the full functionality of the damaged pipeline used to deliver crude oil to the company's German customers on Saturday," Reuters news agency quoted PERN as saying in a statement.
'No sabotage' suspected
The operator stressed it was still investigating the cause of the leak, which was reported on Tuesday, but said there was no reason to suspect sabotage.
"Based on initial assessments, and the manner and way that the pipeline is formed, there are no hints as of now of outsider tampering," Germany's dpa news agency quoted PERN as saying.
Many suspected the Druzhba pipeline leak was due to an act of sabotage amid the energy crisis in Europe
In the wake of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, European countries have been scrambling to minimize their reliance on Russian oil and gas.
Last month, explosions hit the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Both Russia and Western countries have swapped sabotage accusations. The two pipelines were not operational at the time — Moscow cut off gas supplies via Nord Stream 1 in August, saying Western sanctions were to blame for technical problems. Russia's aggression against Ukraine prompted Germany to shelve the Nord Stream 2 project in February.
The Druzhba pipeline was set up in the 1960s to transfer crude oil from Siberia to countries including Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Germany. Meaning "Friendship" in Russian, the pipeline is among the largest systems worldwide.
The energy crisis in Germany could prompt extremism to rise in the country, Minister-President of the German state of Bavaria Markus Soder warned on Sunday, urging democratic parties to cooperate more.
"Fear and uncertainty are the fuel for extremists. And before the coming winter, people are experiencing such uncertainty as they have not experienced for a long time. The mix of crises, such as energy and coronavirus, can lead to overstrain and destabilization of democracy. Therefore, democratic parties should take a clear position, argue less and encourage citizens," Soder told German newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
Soder also urged Economy Minister Robert Habeck and Finance Minister Christian Lindner to stop arguing about extending the operation of the nuclear power plants. He said that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz should resolve the dispute between the two politicians.
The Bavarian leader noted that the country needs to extend the operation of the nuclear power plants until at least 2024, as well as apply measures to reduce the rise of gas prices and introduce financial incentives for citizens in October and November.
Habeck and Lindner have been arguing for months about the extension of the operation of German nuclear power plants. Habeck, a member of the Greens political party, has expressed his intention to extend the operation of two out of the remaining three nuclear power plants until March 2023, while Lindner calls for the extension of the operation of all three plants until 2024.
Germany was planning to phase out nuclear energy in 2022. At the beginning of the year, Berlin shut down three out of six nuclear power plants.
Germany was planning to phase out nuclear energy in 2022. At the beginning of the year, Berlin shut down three out of six nuclear power plants.
In August, Stephan Kramer, President of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, told German broadcaster ZDF that the country was facing a so-called "winter of fury" over imminent "violent" protests against the background of the coronavirus pandemic, the Ukraine crisis, economic woes, and the energy crisis.
Kramer warned of looming "legitimate protests" against the situation that "threatens our existence in the fall," namely "gas shortages, energy difficulties, supply issues, possibly recession, unemployment, but also growing poverty right down to the middle class."
Thousands of protesters have gathered in Paris on Sunday to take part in a march against skyrocketing living costs and climate inaction of the government, a Sputnik correspondent reports.
The Sunday protest was called by Jean-Luc Melenchon's the France Unbowed party and other left-wing parties, including Europe Ecology - The Greens and the Socialist Party, along with several French unions and associations.
The march began with a walkout from the Place de la Nation square at around 3 p.m. local time (13:00 GMT) and was controlled by police cordons.
The activists demand higher wages and social benefits, windfall taxes on energy companies, capping electricity bills and investment in ecological projects. Calls against soaring fuel and food prices, and the controversial pension reform could also be heard at the march.
Radicals appeared at the site of the protest action in Paris, provocations began, the police used tear gas
"We are here to save the French from poverty. [French President Emmanuel] Macron is trying to destroy our country. He is trying to destroy all public goods. It is obvious to us that from November the prices of all fuel, gasoline and diesel will exceed 3 euros, so we have to act. Otherwise we will soon have nothing to eat this winter," one of the activists of the Yellow Vests movement told the Sputnik correspondent.
Some participants shared their resentment over France's increased military support to Ukraine.
"Not only has France supplied Kiev with Caesar howitzers, but it also invites the French to train Ukrainian soldiers. This is too much, this is outrageous. The United States is trying to drag us into a war that is not even ours," another protester said.
On October 8, thousands of protesters gathered in Paris, demanding Macron's resignation.
France remains gripped by widespread protest movement amid the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. The leading French unions announced on Thursday that they were going to hold a nationwide strike on October 18, demanding higher wages and protesting against the government's interference in the social movement of oil employees and encroachment on the right to strike.
