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Swiss voters have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to tighten the country's neutrality rules, with more than 70% opposing a measure that would have barred sanctions without UN approval and blocked closer ties with Nato. The initiative, backed by Russia and the right-wing Swiss People's Party, was opposed by the federal government and all other major parties.

Roughly 2,000 civilians remaining in Russian-occupied Oleshky are starving after food supplies ran out in May, with residents surviving on one daily meal of potato-free soup made from courgettes and foraged weeds. Ukraine's foreign minister Andrii Sybiha told the UN general assembly that Russia is deliberately starving the city's residents to death, while the Kremlin acknowledged a "critical situation" but blamed Ukrainian forces for blocking aid. Expanding minefields and drone cover have halted deliveries, and attempts to drop food by drone have largely failed because Russian soldiers seize the supplies.

President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia has widened its attacks to target Ukraine's data centres and internet providers, seeking maximum disruption to ordinary life. A Russian drone strike on a business centre in Kyiv killed four people and damaged a data centre, which Russia confirmed targeting and said was used by Ukrainian military intelligence. About 100,000 households in Kyiv and the region suffered internet outages on Wednesday due to strikes.

A photo gallery captures scenes from around the world on September 25, 2026. The day's other stories include a Trump-Xi summit with few concrete breakthroughs, a Russian drone attack on Kyiv that killed a teenage boy and wounded 20 residents, an amputee football tournament in the DRC, and South Sudan's president opening political dialogue ahead of December elections.