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Russia claimed its forces had carried out extensive strikes on Ukrainian drone bases and other military targets on Monday, while Ukraine reported having destroyed a significant amount of Russian military hardware.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, its forces took control of a settlement in the Dnipropetrovsk region and targeted bases used to assemble, store, and launch attack drones, as well as ammunition depots.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that Russian offensives in various regions had been repelled and a substantial amount of military equipment destroyed.
Since 19:00 on Sunday, Russia had launched 104 drones against Ukraine, with the country’s air defence forces shooting down 76 of them overnight across northern and eastern regions according to authorities.
Speaking at a joint press conference with visiting Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian and U.S. teams would meet this weekend to discuss the potential for peace talks with Russia and issues such as security guarantees for Ukraine.
Intense diplomatic efforts have been underway in recent weeks to end the conflict. Following a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Trump also held talks last Monday with Zelenskyy and other European leaders.
Saudi Arabia said its overnight strikes on Iran-backed group targets in Iraq were carried out in self-defence and warned it would take further military action if the groups launched new attacks against the kingdom.
The U.S. military said it completed its latest wave of strikes on Iran, a two-hour operation that hit dozens of targets. Washington described the strikes as a "powerful response" to Iranian missile attacks targeting U.S. forces in the Middle East a day earlier.
Thousands of migrants have crossed into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta from Morocco, overwhelming border security and prompting local authorities to call for a national emergency and military deployment.
A fire involving two gas vessels at Egypt's Damietta port has prompted conflicting reports over whether the incident was caused by a drone strike or an onboard technical fault. Egyptian authorities said there were no casualties.
The death toll from the powerful earthquake that struck Japan’s southwestern Kumamoto prefecture has risen to 30, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Thursday, as water and power shortages left survivors exposed to extreme summer heat.
Thousands of people spent the night on beaches, waiting by fences or wading through the sea in the hope of reaching Europe, as an estimated 49,000 migrants crossed into Spain's enclave of Ceuta in just 24 hours.
Carlos Cordeiro, senior adviser to FIFA president Gianni Infantino, has resigned with immediate effect in protest over proposals to sell a stake in the FIFA World Cup, calling the plan "a bad deal for football."
Ukraine targeted a warehouse belonging to Russia’s largest retailer, Wildberries, and an oil refinery overnight, while Moscow said its forces struck a ship carrying military cargo in the Black Sea.
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At least 18 coal miners have been killed and 14 others remain trapped after a powerful methane gas explosion caused part of a mining complex to collapse in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, officials said on Thursday.
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