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Ukraine recaptures village in counteroffensive as Russian forces fire on civilians fleeing flood

12Jun

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Ukraine recaptures village in counteroffensive as Russian forces fire on civilians fleeing flood

Ukraine's military has reported recapturing a south-eastern village as Russian forces claimed to repel multiple attacks in the area, while a regional official said three people were killed when Moscow's troops opened fire at a boat evacuating people. The battlefield showdown in the southeast and chaotic scenes from inundated southern Ukraine marked the latest upheaval and bloodshed in Russia's war in Ukraine, now in its 16th month. Oleksandr Prokudin, governor of the Kherson region, said on his Telegram account that a 74-year-old man who tried to protect a woman was among those who died in the attack on evacuees, which wounded another 10. An Associated Press team on site saw three ambulances drop off injured evacuees at a hospital, one of whom was splattered with blood and...

Three British tourists missing after Egypt boat catches fire with 27 people on board

12Jun

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Three British tourists missing after Egypt boat catches fire with 27 people on board

Rescuers are searching for three British tourists who are missing after a fire erupted on Sunday on the boat they were travelling on in the Egyptian Red Sea, according to state news outlet Al-Ahram. The tourist boat was carrying 27 people, including 15 English tourists, off the coast of the city of Marsa Alam, according to Al-Ahram. Twelve of the British tourists were rescued and the search for the remaining three is underway, according to Al-Ahram. The state outlet didn't mention how the fire started. A spokesperson for the UK's Foreign Office (FCDO) said in a statement Sunday that they are "in contact with local authorities" and are supporting British nationals involved. The incident comes just days after beaches were closed in the Red Sea resort of Hurghad...

Suspect detained after four young children critically wounded in French Alps knife attack

9Jun

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Suspect detained after four young children critically wounded in French Alps knife attack

French authorities are working to determine the motive behind a "savage" knife attack on infants who were playing in a park next to an idyllic lake in a French Alps town. The head of the investigation into the stabbing said the four children, aged between 22 months and three years, were in intensive care and two adults had also been injured, one critically. Annecy public prosecutor Line Bonnet said the 31-year-old suspected attacker's motives remained unknown but there was no evidence of a terrorist motivation. French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said the man, a Syrian with long-standing refugee status in Sweden and no criminal or psychiatric record, has a child of a similar age to the victims. "We are talking here about infants, very young infants who have been v...

Russian tourist killed in shark attack in Egyptian holiday hotspot

9Jun

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Russian tourist killed in shark attack in Egyptian holiday hotspot

Egyptian authorities have banned swimming near a beach at an Egyptian Red Sea resort following a deadly shark attack that killed a Russian citizen on Thursday, according to Egyptian and Russian officials. The incident took place in the popular tourist city of Hurghada on Egypt's eastern coast. Russian Consul-General Viktor Voropayev told Russia state-run TASS news that a Russian national who was born in 1999 "died as a result of a shark attack." "This has been confirmed by Egypt's competent authorities," Voropayev said, as cited by TASS. Minister of Environment, Yasmine Fouad, ordered a committee to investigate the incident, according to a statement released by Egypt's Environment Ministry. She also directed local authorities to implement the "highest levels of s...

Nearly 80 students, mostly girls, poisoned in Afghanistan: officials

6Jun

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Nearly 80 students, mostly girls, poisoned in Afghanistan: officials

Nearly 80 primary school students, mostly girls, are suspected to have been poisoned over the weekend and taken to hospital in Afghanistan's Sangcharak district, Mohammad Rahmani, the head of Education Department in the northern Sar-e-Pul province, told CNN. The intelligence unit of the provincial police department said they are still investigating the matter, according to Rahmani, who said he spoke to police directly. So far officials are unclear on the culprit, the motive, and the potential type of poison possibly used against the school children, he added. Afghan schoolgirls receive treatment for suspected poisoning, at a hospital in Sar-e-Pul province in northern, Afghanistan, Monday, June 5, 2023. An education official in northern Afghanistan says nearly 80 girls at two...

Ukrainian father rushes home after Russian airstrike to find two-year-old daughter dead in rubble

6Jun

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Ukrainian father rushes home after Russian airstrike to find two-year-old daughter dead in rubble

A Ukrainian man rushed to his home outside the central city of Dnipro in hopes of rescuing his family, only to find his two-year-old daughter dead and wife seriously wounded as he helped pull them from the rubble of their apartment destroyed in one of Russia's latest airstrikes of the war, authorities reported. Writing on Telegram after the body of Liza was recovered, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that at least 500 Ukrainian children have been killed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. The United Nations says that around 1000 other Ukrainian children have been wounded, and thousands of others have been forcibly deported to Russia. A two-year-old girl was killed during a Russian air strike near the central Ukrainian city of Dnipr...