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Global News Podcast

Russia blamed for drone crash in Romania

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Romanian authorities say a Russian drone has crashed into a residential building in eastern Romania, causing a fire and injuring two people in the major port city of Galati. The episode has sparked a chorus of condemnation from NATO and EU leaders, who have accused Russia of acting recklessly. The Romanian president, Nicușor Dan, has described this as the most serious security incident to occur on Romanian territory since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Also: eight students have been arrested on suspicion of arson after a deadly fire at a girls school in Kenya; Anthropic, the firm behind the Claude chatbot, overtakes OpenAI to become the world's most valuable AI startup; WHO chief lands in the Democratic Republic of Congo to address rare Ebola outbreak; what two decades of anonymous Google searches tell us about our habits over time; and Lucian Freud’s muse Sue Tilley tells us what it’s like to be the subject of a painting worth a fortune.

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.

0:05.7

This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:11.7

Hello, I'm Jonat Jaliel and at 15 hours GMT on Friday the 29th of May, these are our main stories.

0:18.6

NATO and EU members condemn Russia after a drone hits an apartment building in Romania, injuring two people, close to the border with Ukraine.

0:28.4

Eight students are arrested in Kenya on suspicion of arson after a fire at a boarding school kills 16 girls.

0:36.6

Anthropic overtakes open AI to become the world's most valuable AI firm, valued at nearly a trillion dollars.

0:48.6

Also in this podcast?

0:50.6

Everybody has to search for things that, you know, we might think a basic,

0:55.5

but they're really important part of the lives,

1:00.1

whether it's like how to boil an egg or how to tie a tie or even how to know if you're in love.

1:04.3

We take a look back at two decades of Google searches.

1:11.0

We begin the program in Romania. We begin the program in Romania.

1:23.9

Where a drone has crashed into an apartment block in a city that's close to the border with Ukraine,

1:28.7

causing a fire and wounding two people, a mother and her child.

1:36.0

It sparked a chorus of condemnation from NATO and EU leaders who have accused Russia of acting recklessly. These residents of the Port City of Galatz said they feared this was not an accident,

1:42.4

but a deliberate attack by Moscow.

1:44.8

Well, I think it's another provocation by the Russians.

1:48.6

I don't believe this was an accident.

1:50.5

This has happened too many times for the Russians to be doing this by accident.

1:55.4

Either that or they're highly incompetent at waging war.

1:58.6

But NATO needs to do something about this.

2:01.9

I am thinking Russian peace is slowly reaching here in Romania. I am Ukrainian, and what happened

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