{"id":916755,"date":"2026-10-05T08:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916755\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:20:11","slug":"australia-news-as-it-happened-australia-to-fund-pacific-renewables-projects-ahead-of-cop31-trump-applauds-india-for-election-that-never-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916755\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news as it happened: Australia to fund Pacific renewables projects ahead of COP31; Trump applauds India for election that never happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massive Russian airstrikes targeted industrial and port infrastructure in Ukraine\u2019s Odesa region, Governor Oleh Kiper said on the Telegram messaging app on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>All the fires caused had been extinguished, he added. Separately, Russia said it had struck two Ukrainian cargo vessels in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a memorial for Ukrainian soldiers in Kyiv on Sunday.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1c9493facbbc0c3399e5185a79616985b4ef72e8.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a memorial for Ukrainian soldiers in Kyiv on Sunday.AP<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Russia said it would intensify attacks on Ukraine\u2019s infrastructure following a vow from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to double down on strikes against oil refineries, a day after Moscow\u2019s foreign ministry warned that diplomats and foreign officials in Kyiv were in \u201cmortal danger\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Russian armed forces will intensify strikes against military and military-industrial facilities, as well as related infrastructure in Kyiv and other regions of Ukraine,\u201d the Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry cited comments Zelensky made in an interview with Reuters published on Sunday, in which the Ukrainian president said his country had to respond to attacks on energy infrastructure by targeting Russian oil refiners, which \u201cgives money to them for this war\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters, Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Massive Russian airstrikes targeted industrial and port infrastructure in Ukraine\u2019s Odesa region, Governor Oleh Kiper said on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-916755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}