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The Metro says Ukraine’s capital city was rocked by explosions for the first time in over a month today.

VOA says Russia fired a barrage of missiles early Sunday on Kyiv for the first time in more than a month, shattering a sense of normalcy in the Ukrainian capital.

The Metro says Festivals up and down Europe could speed up the spread of monkeypox, health experts have warned.

VOA says Joe Biden said Tuesday he decided to provide Ukraine with “more advanced rocket systems and munitions” as part of U.S. efforts to help the Ukrainian fight against a Russian invasion now in its fourth month.

The Daily Express says VENICE’S mayor has reacted with rage to graffiti on one of the city’s churches. Recently two US tourists were spotted swimming naked in a Venice canal.

The Metro says one of Putin’s top propagandists has said World War Three has begun and Russia will now ‘demilitarise’ Nato.

The Independent says a 32-year-old French journalist has died after being hit by shell shrapnel as he documented an evacuation operation in eastern Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron has said.

The Guardian says the European Union has agreed to an embargo on most Russian oil imports after late-night talks at a summit in Brussels.

France24 says EU leaders on Monday backed a ban on most Russian oil imports, after a compromise deal with Hungary to punish Moscow for the war in Ukraine.

Euronews says a bizarre incident occurred at the Louvre Museum in Paris yesterday (29 May) as a man in disguise smeared a cake over the Mona Lisa.

The Independent says Russian president Vladimir Putin has been given just three years to live by doctors, it’s claimed.

The Guardian says the sharp polarisation between mainly western liberal democracies and the rest of the world in perceptions of Russia has been laid bare in an annual global poll of attitudes towards democracy.

Euronews says Hundreds of Lithuanians have chipped in together to buy an advanced military drone for Ukraine in its war against Russia in a show of solidarity with a fellow former Soviet Union country.

Wind power a vital source of energy for Finland – energy bills to rise as the Finns move towards an independent energy supply. The end…

Euronews says the yachts and lavish houses of Russian oligarchs that have been seized under EU sanctions could be confiscated to finance Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction.

The Independent says Workers digging through the rubble of an apartment building in Mariupol found 200 bodies in the basement, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday.

Euronews says behind the destroyed walls of the cities of Ukraine lie hundreds of tales of torture, mass rapes, and murder of civilians.

Aljazeera says Hungary’s government will assume emergency powers in order to be able to respond more quickly to challenges created by the war in neighbouring Ukraine.

The Metro says the growing global outbreak of monkeypox cases is sexual transmission can probably be traced to sexual activity at two raves in Europe, a top expert has said.

The Guardian says contamination of fresh fruits by the most hazardous pesticides has dramatically increased in Europe over the past decade, according to a nine-year study of government data.

Euronews says Spain’s former King Juan Carlos I met his son and the country’s current monarch Felipe VI at the end of a controversial return visit.

Belgium has introduced a mandatory 21-day quarantien for monkeypox patients as cases of the disease strat to spread across the globe.

A captured Russian soldier has been handed a whole life sentence for killing a civilian in Ukraine – the first war crime trial since Russia’s invasion of the country.

The Metro says Belgium has become the first country to introduce a mandatory quarantine for people with monkeypox.

Euronews says Spain is feeling the heat after temperatures soared this weekend, reaching up to 15 degrees above average for the season.