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MILAN — Rheinmetall has established a upkeep heart in western Ukraine to restore German-donated navy tools broken in fight, as extra arms producers are organising store within the embattled nation. The Rheinmetall Ukrainian Protection Trade restore facility, a three way partnership undertaking between the German firm and the Ukraine state-owned enterprise Ukroboronprom, was inaugurated on June 10. “Marder infantry combating …

Nancy Faeser, Germany’s interior minister, visited Sarajevo in an unannounced work visit on Tuesday to try to reduce irregular migration from Bosnia-Herzegovina into the European Union. Recently, the number of unauthorised entries via the Balkan country has increased. Berlin government sources say that more people are travelling to Germany through Sarajevo after Serbia tightened its airport security. In 2023, around …

(Bloomberg), the far-right National Rally Party of Marine Le Pen is expected to win the first French legislative round with 35% of the vote, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday. The Most Read Articles on Bloomberg Ifop-Fiducial’s survey for LCI, Le Figaro, and Sud Radio revealed that Emmanuel Macron’s group would receive 18% if the left-wing parties formed …

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has seen clear indications of atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan. In an urgent appeal issued on Tuesday in The Hague, Khan called on international organizations, partners and national authorities to collect evidence and information and hand it over to him. Every day, he said, his investigators receive information …

The moderate Iranian presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has expressed cautious criticism of the repressive measures used to enforce Iran’s headscarf laws. Today, women are penalized because their clothing does not comply with the regulations, the former health minister said in an interview published on Tuesday in the newspaper Hammihan. “Were we to blame for not educating them properly, or are …

June 11 (UPI) — A plane in China was delayed after a passenger’s smuggled pet sugar glider, a type of small Australian possum, escaped in the passenger cabin. Shanghai Police International Airport Branch said passengers on the Eastern Airlines flight to Jinan had to temporarily disembark when the animal, which resembles a flying squirrel, escaped from its owner in the …

An aircraft carrying Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Chilima and nine others has gone missing, a statement from the president’s office has said. The Malawi Defence Force aircraft “went off the radar” after it left the capital, Lilongwe, on Monday morning, it added. The plane was supposed to land at Mzuzu International Airport, in the country’s north, just after 10:00 local time …

At least 49 people from the Horn of Africa have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Survivors have told rescuers that the vessel, carrying 260 migrants, sank on Monday in strong winds. The search continues for 140 people who are still missing. The IOM said it was providing …

A boat carrying 260 migrants sank off Yemen’s coast on Monday, killing at least 39 people and leaving 150 others missing, the United Nations’ international migration agency said Tuesday. The International Organisation for Migration said in a message posted on social media that 71 people had survived the sinking. The nationalities of the migrants on the boat was not clear. …

The wreck of a plane carrying Malawi’s vice-president has been found with no survivors, President Lazarus Chakwera has said. Saulos Chilima and nine others were flying within the country on Monday morning when their aircraft disappeared from airport radars. The plane, a military aircraft, was flying in bad weather. Soldiers had been searching Chikangawa Forest overnight and into the morning …