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- House votes for third time to restrict Trump’s military actions against Iran
- Undersea microphones developed to protect UK’s £65 billion cables from threats
- Putin lifts 30-year ban on gas mask sales amid rising war tensions
- Thousands of police protest in Paris over working conditions and pay
- Geneva talks aim to address ongoing conflict between DRC and Rwanda
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- British mother kidnapped from her home in Blantyre, Malawi
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Vladimir Putin has approved the sale of gas masks to Russian families, lifting a ban in place since 1992 amidst rising tensions with NATO and the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Negotiations between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda resumed in Geneva more than a year after an initial agreement aimed at resolving their conflict. Despite ongoing talks, fighting continues in eastern Congo, particularly influenced by the activities of M23 and the presence of Rwandan forces, complicating the peace efforts.
A British national, Nusrat Osman, 47, has been abducted in Blantyre, Malawi, with police seeking information on her whereabouts and offering a reward.
A shooting at a school in Finland has killed one child and seriously injured two others. All three victims of the shooting are 12 years old, and the suspected shooter is also 12. He initially fled the scene but was later apprehended.
A devastating fire has claimed the lives of at least 29 individuals and left one person injured at a nightclub in Turkey. The Masquerade nightclub, situated in the basement of a high-rise building, became engulfed in flames shortly after midday, according to Istanbul governor Davut Gül.
Botswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, has warned Germany that he will send 20,000 elephants to the European country as a political dispute between the two continues.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards report that seven officers have lost their lives in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Iranian consulate building in Damascus, the capital of Syria. Among the deceased are Brig-Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a high-ranking commander of the elite Quds Force, and Brig-Gen Mohammad Hadi Haji-Rahimi, his deputy.
The World Central Kitchen (WCK) has said they will suspend operations in Gaza following the death of seven of its workers in Israeli air strikes. The WCK says the workers killed were British, Australian, Polish, Palestinian and a dual US-Canadian citizen.
The international food charity said the workers were part of an aid convoy leaving a warehouse in central Gaza.
Donald Trump has posted a $175m (£140m) bond in his New York civil fraud case. The former US president was originally ordered to pay the full $464m judgement against him but an appeals court said he could pay the smaller sum within 10 days.
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