KYIV, Oct 16 - Russian drones killed at least three people across Ukraine early on Friday, hit two shopping centres and knocked out power to around 370,000 in the northwest after strikes on the energy grid, officials said. Read more at straitstimes.com.

At least four people died after the first hurricane of the Atlantic season roared onto the Florida Panhandle and carved a path into the Southeast.

Four people were killed and nearly 900,000 customers were without power after Isaias roared ashore near Destin, Florida, late Friday night as a Category 2 hurricane, packing wind gusts over 100 mph and a storm surge of up to six feet. A wind gust to 117 mph was recorded in Pensacola Beach, Florida, while nearby Santa Rosa Beach gusted to 116 mph. The town of Milton gusted to 115 mph in the Florida Panhandle, and several other gusts to 105 mph were clocked nearby — ferocious winds driving power outages across Florida, Alabama and Georgia as of early Saturday, according to poweroutage.us. Florida officials were surveying damage across the area Saturday, as daylight revealed the extent of the destruction. A woman was killed in Escambia County, near the Alabama border, after a large tree fell on her home and pinned her underneath it. On Saturday, a man died after using a generator in a garage without proper ventilation. Another person was killed in Birmingham when a tree fell on a building early Saturday, city fire…