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Europe bomb hoaxes widen

The series of hoax bomb scares sent to several Irish media outlets and European airlines are likely part of a coordinated campaign of disruption, according to the Irish government. Dozens of commercial flights have been targetted by email with threats said to be over and above the typical hoax in specificty. Ireland's broadcaster RTE who's staff evacuated the premises this morning and several Italian airlines, say they received a mesage cliaming to be from a Russian extremist group calling itself the Fighters of the Male State, which denied its implication. France 24's Jean-Emile Jammine speak

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Dozens dead and missing after Russian strike on Ukrainian aid centre

The death toll from a Russian bombing of an aid distribution point in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region on Monday has risen to 42, with dozens still missing, officials said, in one of the deadliest strikes on civilians this year. The attack came a day ​after a brief ‌US-brokered local ceasefire expired and less than a week before the United States is due to bring together Ukrainian and Russian delegations ⁠in Abu Dhabi for talks on ending the war, now in its fifth year.

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Dozens killed, dozens more missing after Russian strike on Ukrainian aid site

The death toll from a Russian attack in southern Ukraine on a site where people had gathered to receive humanitarian aid rose to 29 on Tuesday, with 48 still missing, as a wave of overnight strikes targeted power plants across the country, damaged hospitals and wounded scores of people. Russia launched 289 attack drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles across nine regions, triggering emergency power cuts, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an online post. FRANCE 24's Emmanuelle Chaze reports from Kyiv, Ukraine.

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