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Police investigating the loss of British toddler Madeleine McCann, are conducting a new search near Portuguese holiday resort, which was last seen 18 years ago, authorities said Monday.

The 3-year-old disappeared from bed on May 3, 2007 at Praiadal’s Resort in southern Portugal while on vacation with his family. She has not been seen since.

Detectives acting on demand from German prosecutors will conduct a “extensive” search this week in the Lagos region of southern Portugal, a statement from Portugal police said.

The main suspect in the case is a German citizen identified by the media as Christian Bruckner, who has been sentenced to seven years in Germany for raping a 72-year-old woman in Portugal in 2005.

He is currently investigating alleged murders in the McCann case, but has not been charged. He spent many years in Portugal, including Praia Dalz, at the time of his loss of children. Brueckner denied her involvement in the loss of disappearance.

According to the German DPA news agency, the prosecutor of Braunschweig, the head of the investigation, did not provide details of “judicial measures” taking place in Portugal. They said measures are being implemented by Portuguese authorities with support from officials of the Federal Criminal Police Station in Germany.

The British metropolitan police said “we know that Portugal’s BKA (German Federal Police) is searching as part of an investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.”

“The Metropolitan Police Service is not present in the search and will support international colleagues when necessary,” the Force added, without detailing.

The McCann incident attracted global attention for several years, reporting on sightings of stretches that are as far away as Australia, as well as books and television documentaries about her loss book.

Almost 20 years later, investigators in the UK, Portugal and German still stitch together what happened on the night she disappeared. She was in the same room as her brother and sister (two-year-old twins), but her parents, Kate and Jerry, had dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant.

Police resumed searching for the case in 2023, but detectives from three countries joined the search near a dam and reservoir, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Praiadal’s Resort.

Madeleine’s family has expressed their determination to continue their search as she celebrated the 18th anniversary of her loss last month.

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The Ukrainian drone attack on Russian airfields was bold and bold. But most of all, it was meticulously planned and executed perfectly.

Kiev has crashed into a place where Moscow can hurt or destroy the military aircraft that it has used to terrorize Ukrainian civilians in everyday air attacks.

Ukrainian security services said 41 Russian aircraft, including strategic bombers and surveillance aircraft, had been attacked, but it is unclear how many people took full action.

Justin Bronk, a senior researcher at the Royal United Services Institute in London, said the attack was “a surprising success for Ukraine’s special services.”

“If even half of the total claims for 41 damaged/destroyed aircraft were confirmed, I wrote a memo while maintaining nuclear suppression and signal patrols against Japan, which had a major impact on the ability of Russian long-range aviation forces to maintain regular, large-scale cruise missile salvos on Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.

This is what we know about how the attack unfolded.

The attack targets four airfields deep in Russia, with the farthest airfield, the Bellaya base in the Irkutsk region, about 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles) from Ukraine’s border with Russia.

Other targets included Orenia base near Murmansk in the Arctic Circle, over 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) from Ukraine. Ziagilev Air Force Base in Riazan sphere, approximately 520 km (320 miles) from Ukraine. Ivanovo Air Force Base, a Russian military transport base, is approximately 800 km (500 miles) from the border.

The visuals shared by Ukrainian security agency SBU also targeted another base in the East Amur region. It is not clear whether this attack on the base failed or was aborted.

These enormous distances from the border with Ukraine probably made Russia happy with the protection of its site.

The most valuable aircraft on Belaya base were regularly parked to be clearly visible on airfields, which were visible in public satellite images, including Google Maps.

Moscow would have believed that the distance itself was sufficient to keep the aircraft safe from Ukraine’s attacks.

Russia maintains an air superiority over Ukraine, and Kiev’s allies supply Ukraine with several long-range missile systems, including US-made ATACMs and shadows of British and French storms, but there is no scope to hit this deep inside Russia.

Ukraine uses drones against targets within Russia, including Moscow, but at the slower speeds they travel, it becomes relatively easy for Russian air defenses to hit them.

This is where the boldness of the attack actually unfolded. Rather than trying to fly the drone from the border, Ukraine smuggled it right next to the site they wanted to target and fired it from there.

Russian radar and air defense at these bases were not prepared for such low altitudes and sudden attacks.

The only effective way to stop such attacks is to use heavy machine guns. Russia uses these against Ukrainian sea drones in the Black Sea.

But these are because either they have not been deployed quickly enough in the empty bands targeted by Ukraine on Sunday, or because Russia likely did not foresee this type of attack.

CNN was able to verify and earthen scene photos and videos, and checked locations near the base.

In a statement, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that an attack called a “terrorist attack” was launched near the airfield.

Ukrainian President Voldymeierzelensky said 117 drones were used for operation.

According to the SBU, the drone was smuggled into Russia by its operatives. At one point, the drone was hidden inside a mobile wooden shed, perhaps while in Russia.

Photos obtained by CNN show a drone pushed right under the metal roof of Sheds slotted in an insulated cavity.

These wooden cabins were placed in trucks and driven to a location near the base.

Ukraine did not reveal that it was able to accurately introduce vehicles near famous military targets without detection, but reports in Russian media suggest that it is relatively easy.

Two Russian telegram channels, Baza and Astra, reported that both trucks were purchased by Ukrainians who lived in Russia.

Neither Russians nor Ukrainian authorities commented on these reports, but the RIA of the Russian news agency reported that authorities in the Irkutsk region were searching for men suspected of being involved in the attack. His name matched the name reported by Baza and Astra.

Ukrainian security services said operatives involved in the business had returned safely to Ukraine by the time the attack was launched. Zelensky said he worked in several Russian regions across three time zones.

A senior source for the Ukrainian drone development programme told CNN that the pilots who flew the drone were probably not near where they were launched.

“They would have set up an Internet hub that allowed pilots to remotely (control them), allowing each to quickly deploy each FPV (first-person view drone) and push each target one by one.”

Sources said the communications hub could be a “simple Russian mobile phone” that is more difficult to track than other systems, such as Starlink, which is widely used in Ukraine.

Sources who were described in the issue confirmed that an attack was carried out over Russian communications networks.

The truck was in place and the drone was ready, and the cabin roof opened and the drone flew towards the target.

Shared on social media, verified by CNN, video of the attack in the southeastern Irkutsk region of Russia, immersed in the earth, shows two drones flying out of a truck.

They are seen heading towards Bellaya Air Base in the distance. There, thick dark smoke from the previous strike is already swirling.

Another video from the same location shows the truck used to transport drones over fire after what appears to be an explosion designed to self-destruct the truck.

Zelensky said on Sunday that the attacks have been made over a year, six months and nine days, praising security services for their “great” business.

Russian officials have downplayed the attacks, saying strikes have been repelled in Ivanovo, Riazan and Amur regions, but “several aircraft” have sparked fires following attacks in Murmansk and Irkutsk regions. It added that the fire had disappeared.

He said there were no casualties. However, while Russian authorities have tried to downplay the attack, several well-known Russian military bloggers have spoken out in their criticism.

Rybar, a well-known Russian military blog, said the attack caused “tragic losses to all of Russian aviation” and was the result of “criminal negligence.”

The SBU said the strike caused an estimated $7 billion in damages, striking 34% of Russia’s strategic cruise missile carriers on its main air base.

Ukraine said it had destroyed several TU-95 and TU-22M3 strategic bombers and one of Russia’s few A-50 surveillance aircraft.

Sources discussed the issue stated that 27 TU-95, four TU-160s, two TU-22M3s and “probably” A-50 were hits.

The TU-22M3 is a Russian long-range missile strike platform capable of performing stand-off attacks, launching missiles from Russian airspace behind the frontline, leaving Ukraine’s anti-aircraft fire range.

Russia had 55 TU-22M3 jets and 57 TU-95s in its fleet at the beginning of the year, according to a “Military Balance 2025” report from the International Institute of Strategic Studies think tank.

The TU-95 joined the Soviet Air Force in the 1950s, and Russia modified it to launch cruise missiles like the TU-22.

RUSI expert Bronk said replacing some of these aircraft is extremely difficult for Russia as they have not been produced for decades.

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Italian authorities say a massive eruption on Mount Etna forced tourists to flee the volcano on Monday after “several kilometres” of hot gas, ash and rocks were hit by a massive wave in the air on Monday.

Video posted on social media shows a long line of people rushing downhill from the explosion, but the owner of one tour company told CNN that there were 40 people when the Sicily erupted.

Giuseppe Panfallo, a guide with Go Etna, filmed his tour group leaning in the distance with a huge cloud of ashes.

“We were mostly grazing, and we were watching this cloud here. We’re two steps ahead and thankful that we have a responsible guide with us,” he says in a video he shared with CNN.

“It arrives at once, immeasurable smoke, immeasurable, immeasurable roar.”

The Sicily Civil Protection Agency added that around 12 tour operators working in Etna at any time have spoken to CNN and are contacting everything to make sure everyone is explained.

Volcanoes on Italian islands are popular tourist destinations with 1.5 million visitors a year, many of which trek mostly to the summit.

Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, but there has not been an eruption of this size since 2014, according to the National Geophysics and Volcanic Observatory.

These eruptions often stop as soon as they begin, the station added, but the explosions are still increasing in intensity, with the mountains spitting very little lava and fire.

The eruption, which began overnight, caused an explosion that was heard far away as Taormina and Catania, about 50 and 40 kilometers (31 and 25 miles) away, respectively, according to several witnesses who posted footage on social media.

The observatory said the preliminary observations indicate a “partial collapse” of the north flank of the southeastern crater of the volcano, which produced spectacular lava flows during recent eruptions in the past few months.

While ashes are not expected to fall in Catania, a city at the foot of the volcano, authorities are ready to warn people to hide when the wind changes, city mayor Enrico Tarantino told CNN.

Airports near Catania and Palermo are also open. Because the wind is not blowing ashes in that direction at the moment. The Sicilian Civil Protection Agency has instructed all flight trips to avoid the region, and according to flytrader data, several flights from Catania have been directed to Palermo.

Authorities are trying to close many roads heading towards the volcano and keep people trying to get closer to the eruption out of the way of first responders and emergency vehicles, Tarantino added.

At 1pm local time (7am ET), the volcano began spitting hot lava.

The station defined volcanic activity as a detrital eruption, “having a significant increase in volcanic tremors and the formation of eruption columns containing hot gases, lava grains, volcanic ash, and rock fragments of different sizes that rapidly descended down the volcanic slopes.

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After too many nights of pulling children out of the rooftop rubs of Russian drone strikes, the devastating attacks on Moscow’s military pride over the weekend mark a brief moment of rest against Ukrainian morale, giving an unexpected twist in the Kremlin’s war of choice.

It may be difficult to speculate on the exact impact of Ukrainian wi drone attacks on Russian air force bases thousands of miles away from the Ukrainian border. Kyiv said 41 long-range bomber jets were on fire, and the attacks had 34% of Russia’s strategic cruise missile carriers suffered a blow at its main base.

We don’t know how many bombers Russia is fully functional – the number of others who have been cannibalized for spare parts after years of straining their annual mission to Ukraine suggests that Russia was using around 20 and about 60 Supersonic TU-22M3s of propeller-driven TU-95s.

It will reveal in the coming months how extremely tightly this will actually pose the fears that this will pose across Ukraine. But if Kyiv says it’s true – 117 relatively inexpensive drones take out dozens of planes, causing what one security source estimated to be $7 billion in damage – the economics of war have changed.

And it marks another point in which the voice wins against the Giants. Russia’s main cards are military resources, frontline talent, tolerance for pain, financial reserves, and more. However, repeatedly Kiev shows that the target pin sting can burst these bubbles.

In late 2022, Ukrainians struck supply lines in the occupied northern part of Ukraine, causing a swift and embarrassing collapse of Russia’s status. In 2023, they slammed the Kerch Strait Bridge, which links Russia-occupied Crimea. And last year they invaded Russia’s Kursk, exposed the vulnerability of the borders of Russian war machinery.

In each case, the story of the war was reflected in the favor of Ukraine. But there’s no need for more time this week as a few months after a critical plank of US support was questionable, Russian and Ukrainian delegations met for the second round of peace talks in Turkey.

It also brings one of the important lessons of this war to the forefront. Technology’s ability to advance, solid intelligence to overturn the military trajectory that many observers felt was resolved, and bold execution. The first use of Ukrainian attack drones in 2023 evolved into a widespread tactic, allowing them to survive the onslaught that overwhelmed Russian infantry attacks on the widely at-risk frontline. It sent the sea Doron to attack Russia’s precious Black Sea fleet.

And, most very weekend, Ukraine says its air defense was repelled and unparalleled success, a record Russian drone attack of 472 Shahed. Ukraine fired down or used electronic warfare to block 382, ​​but according to the Air Force, it is once again a feat that suggests technological advances, and the supply of air defense interceptors from the US may not be the immediate horrifying threat conceived a month ago.

But what about the broader impact of bold drone attacks within Russia? Was it so deep in the Bellaya of Irkutsk, almost halfway through Siberia? What will it change in a war where Russia slowly moves forward and shows little genuine interest in the ceasefire and the peace that comes with it? I don’t know about this, but it’s not zero. Losing these aircraft has practical effects and affects Russia’s military pride and uncertainty. Even airfields deep in Siberia are not safe.

Most of the Russian military machinery project immortality and fearlessness towards the longest tactical war. It uses the idea that time is on its side as an important asset. But like the weekend show, Strike is vulnerable and limited in its hardware, and perhaps not easily replaceable.

Moscow may be able to dispel this latest set-off, a strictly subordinate national media that can maintain the story of the Kremlin’s choice. But that doesn’t change the reality of that trouble. It did not stop the short-lived Wagner rebellion in 2023 or the Ukraine’s invasion of Kursk last year.

There are two damages. The inner story of Moscow capable of doing this indefinitely – when such a surprise comes, it cannot be revealed. And secondly, the ability to visit the kind of bulk destruction that we have relied on to advance in the war. The latter may slow its progression, but the former is more dangerous. Small cracks can spread. For now, they can all be given to Ukraine, but like many in this war, their long-term impact is completely unpredictable.