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Ukrainian air defenses shot down a Russian drone in Kyiv Thursday morning just minutes after British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer had attended a wreath-laying ceremony in the city.

An engine room explosion sank a Russian cargo ship called ‘Ursa Major’ in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria and two of its crew are missing, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was responsible for the killing of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces on Monday, a source has told Reuters.

The cause of the blast in a residential area of the Hague is yet to be determined.

Russia appears to have suffered a “catastrophic failure” in a test of its Sarmat missile, a key weapon in the modernization of its nuclear arsenal, according to arms experts who have analyzed satellite images of the launch site.

Pagers used by Hezbollah that exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria, injuring thousands, were manufactured in Hungary, a Taiwanese company has said.

The Hezbollah terrorist group was hit by a series of pager explosions on Tuesday that killed at least eight people and injured nearly 3,000.

The fire saw the deployment of around 100 firefighters and 30 fire trucks.

One soldier has died and eight have been hospitalized, including one civilian, as a result of an ammunition explosion at the Libava military training ground in the eastern Czech Republic, the Czech military reported.

Just one day after a huge inferno engulfed Warsaw’s Marywilska 44 shopping center, three more fires have hit the news around Poland with one of the blazes even impacting a firefighting academy.

The explosion, which took place around 3:00 pm, is said to have originated at a dam situated on Lake Suviana