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Lawmakers voted 227 to 164 to move Italy to a fully proportional system with a big seat bonus for any bloc that tops 42%. The opposition calls it self-serving and plans a court challenge, but Meloni's coalition is now trailing in the polls.
Yandex says a drone attack sparked a fire at its data center in Sasovo, southeast of Moscow, and that it had to halt all operations there. No one was hurt, and the company says its core consumer services kept running.
A Taiwanese charter and flight-training company says its patrol plane tracked a fishing boat that doubles as a Chinese militia vessel off Hualien in August, alongside a coast guard cutter and a research ship. Taiwan's officials confirmed the vessels were there, Reuters reported.
Ukrainian officials say 33 people died and 18 were wounded when a Russian guided bomb struck two passenger buses Thursday morning. It came a day after a missile strike on an apartment block in Pryluky killed 22, including five children.
