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A woman has been injured and flights from major airports were disrupted after Moscow was hit with the biggest drone strike since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Russia's defence ministry said 70 drones were shot down overnight in its territory, including 34 over the outskirts of the capital. The federal air transport agency said the airports of Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Zhukovsky diverted at least 36 flights, but then resumed operations.A woman in her 50s suffered burns to her face, neck and hands after drone strikes sparked a blaze in her village southeast of Moscow, local governor Andrei Vorobyov said.No one was said to have been hurt in the city itself but Russian channels on the messaging app Telegram carried eyewitness reports of drone debris setting fire to suburban homes. "An attemp...

An Irish man is suspected of killing a 31-year-old US nurse during an "intimate encounter" at his Budapest flat before dumping her body in woodland, according to police.Hungarian police said Mackenzie Michalski, from Portland in the US state of Oregon, was killed after meeting the 37-year-old man at a nightclub while she was on holiday in the city. Officers identified the suspect by the initials LTM and said he cleaned up his rented apartment in the Hungarian capital and put Ms Michalski's body in a wardrobe and then into a suitcase.He allegedly rented a car and drove 90 miles (150km) to Lake Balaton, where he is said to have disposed of the body in a wooded area near the village of Szigliget.Police video showed the suspect guiding them to where he left the body.Officers said he also searc...

At least 10 people have been killed after gunmen attacked a bar in central Mexico, local officials say.Four people armed with "long weapons" arrived at Los Cantaritos bar in the city of Queretaro on Saturday night before opening fire on those inside, Juan Luis Ferrusca, the head of the local public security department, said on social media. Seven men and three women were reported dead and at least seven people were injured, Mr Ferrusca said.One of the suspects was arrested and the vehicle they travelled in was found burnt out and abandoned nearby.Read more from Sky News:Hurricane relief worker told staff not to help Trump supportersInsiders say VAT on private school fees will hit army recruitment'Renegade' UK could be spared tariffs under Trump - US governor ...

Azerbaijan, a major oil and gas producer accused of serious human rights abuses, is "perfectly suited" to host a critical global climate summit, according to its man in charge.Before the COP29 climate talks kick off in the capital Baku on Monday, the president of the talks, Mukhtar Babayev, told Sky News the country has plenty to bring to the table. Sandwiched between Russia and Iran, bridging Europe and Asia, Azerbaijan is "strategically located" to bridge differences between regions, he said, as countries assemble with wildly different ambitions, grudges and fears for the talks. But there's another reason, said Mr Babayev: its role as a major oil and gas producer.Baku is the "world's first oil town", home to the world's first industrial oil well from 1847. Rel...