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Moscow, June 8 (UNI) Ukrainian forces bombed a store in the village of Sadovoye in Russia’s Kherson region twice on Friday, killing 22 civilians, the region’s Governor Vladimir Saldo said. Saldo said that at the time of the attack, there were a significant number of customers and staff inside the store, according to a TASS…

Washington, June 8 (UNI) Flight AC872 bound for Paris was forced to return to the Toronto airport shortly after takeoff on June 5, where it landed normally, enabling the passengers to board another airplane later that evening, Air Canada said on Friday. Earlier in the day, media reported that a Boeing 777 operated by Air…

Nicosia, June 8 (UNI) Cyprus recorded its hottest day ever for June on Friday as temperatures soared to an unprecedented 44 degrees Celsius, the Cypriot Meteorological Department said in a statement. The record was 10 degrees Celsius above the average highest temperature for June. Temperatures started rising at the beginning of the week when a…

Gaza, June 7 (UNI) Hamas armed wing Al-Qassam Brigades said Thursday that it blew up a tunnel entrance set by Israeli forces near Rafah as a trap and killed five Israeli soldiers ambushed inside. The entrance to an underground tunnel had been installed near the Tal Zu’rob neighborhood, west of Rafah in the southern Gaza…

Washington, June 7 (UNI) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint meeting of Congress of the United States on July 24, US House Speaker Mike Johnson has announced on social media. “I am pleased to announce with @LeaderMcConnell [US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell] that Israeli PM Netanyahu will address a joint meeting…

Helsinki, June 7 (UNI) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said here on Thursday that NATO has no plans to deploy forces to Ukraine. At a joint press conference with Finnish President Alexander Stubb on the second day of his two-day visit to Finland, Stoltenberg said that “we are focusing on…

Washington, June 7 (UNI) US President Joe Biden will participate in a bilateral meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy on June 7, the White House said in a statement. According to the statement, the bilateral meeting at the InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel will feature an out-of-town pool spray. Biden and the First Lady are in France…

Paris, June 7 (UNI) France will supply Mirage warplanes to Ukraine and train their soldiers, said French President Emmanuel Macron in an interview with French media on Thursday evening. “We will launch a new cooperation and transfer Mirage 2000-5s,” said Macron. The French leader also promised to train a whole Ukrainian battalion of 4,500 troops,…

Gaza, June 7 (UNI) The Palestinian mayor of central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, Iyad al-Mughari, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Thursday, Palestinian medical and security sources said. Palestinian security sources told Xinhua that the mayor was killed, along with a number of his family members, as an Israeli attack targeted a building in…

Lisbon, June 7 (UNI) Two people were seriously injured after a plane crashed Thursday near the Leiria airfield in central Portugal. The Sub-regional Command for Emergency and Civil Protection of the Leiria Region confirmed that the aircraft crashed on National Road 109, which has been closed for repair work. Local media said the crash of…