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Paris, June 28 (EFE).- Eleven people were killed on Sunday when a small aircraft carrying a group of skydivers crashed near the eastern French city of Nancy, authorities said. The prefect of Meurthe-et-Moselle, Yves Seguy, told reporters that there were «at this moment» 11 confirmed fatalities and that the crash...

Baghdad, June 28 (EFE).- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday that only Tehran is responsible for restoring shipping through the Strait of Hormuz to pre-war levels, warning that any outside intervention would delay the reopening of the strategic waterway and further escalate tensions. Speaking alongside Iraqi Foreign Minister...

Gaza, June 28 (EFE).- More than eight months after an Israeli airstrike reduced a residential building in Gaza City to rubble, rescuers have finally begun searching for eight victims still trapped beneath the debris using heavy machinery rented by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Recovering the dead in...

London, June 27 (EFE).- The United Kingdom’s heatwave is beginning to ease after record-breaking June temperatures, with cooler Atlantic air expected to bring conditions back to seasonal norms by early next week, the Met Office said on Saturday. The national weather service has downgraded the red heat alert, the highest...

Berlin/Moscow, June 27 (EFE).- Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) reported on Saturday that it had carried out a new drone strike on an oil pumping station in the Russian town of Vtorovo. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the use of domestically developed Flamingo cruise missiles against a Russian arms factory in Volgograd,...

​Nairobi, Jun 26 (EFE).- The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo filed a lawsuit against Rwanda on Friday before the International Court of Justice for genocide and other human rights violations in eastern DRC, directly and through allied armed groups. ​According to a statement from the Ministry of...