Western officials link incendiary devices to DHL Mail in Russia

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🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

DHL's logistics hub in Leipzig, Germany, is sophisticated and enormous. So, when parcels in the facility started catching fire, at first, it was confounding and concerning. But it wasn't long before European spies and law enforcement figured out what was happening. They say Russia was sending incendiary devices through the mail. Also, only two countries do not allow divorce. One is the Vatican. The other is the Philippines, a predominantly Catholic nation where clergy preach a message that divorce is "anti-family." But a movement to legalize divorce in the Philippines is gaining traction. And, in Ukraine, front-line soldiers brace for the hardest winter of war yet.

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0:17.2	And I'm Carolyn Bueller.
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1:11.9	We begin with new revelations about parcels that burst into flames in a German D.HL facility
1:17.4	over the summer. The Wall Street Journal reports the devices were part of a Russian plot against
1:22.2	Washington and its allies. Boyan Panchevsky is the Wall Street Journal's chief,
1:26.3	European political correspondent in Berlin.
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