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21 die in strikes on Ukraine amid Aeroflot cyberattack
21 die in strikes on Ukraine amid Aeroflot cyberattack At least four people were killed and eight injured in attacks on Dnipro. Photo: Reuters Russian glide bombs and missiles struck a Ukrainian prison and a medical facility overnight, killing at least 21 people, officials said on Tuesday, as Russia kept up its bombardment of civilian areas despite US President Donald Trump's threat to soon punish Russia with sanctions and tariffs unless it stops. The airstrikes came after a cyberattack on Russian state-owned flagship carrier Aeroflot caused a mass outage to the company's computer systems on Monday, Russia's prosecutor's office said, forcing the airline to cancel more than 100 flights and delay others. Ukrainian hacker group Silent Crow and Belarusian hacker activist group the Belarus Cyber-Partisans, which opposes the rule of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, claimed responsibility for the cyberattack. In the Russian airstrikes, a prison in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region was hit, killing at least 17 inmates and wounding more than 80 others, officials said. In the Dnipro region, authorities reported at least four people were killed and eight injured. Trump said on Monday he is giving Russian President Vladimir Putin 10 to 12 days to stop the killing in Ukraine after three years of war, moving up a 50-day deadline he had given the Russian leader two weeks ago. The move meant Trump wants peace efforts to make progress by August 7-9. Trump has repeatedly rebuked Putin for talking about ending the war but continuing to bombard Ukrainian civilians. But the Kremlin hasn't changed its tactics. The Kremlin pushed back, however, with a top Putin lieutenant warning Trump against 'playing the ultimatum game with Russia.' 'Russia isn't Israel or even Iran,' former president Dmitry Medvedev, who is deputy head of the country's Security Council, wrote on social platform X. 'Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country.' The Ukrainian air force said Russia launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles along with 37 Shahed-type strike drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight. They say 32 Shahed drones were intercepted or neutralized by Ukrainian air defenses. The Russian attack close to midnight on Monday hit the Bilenkivska Correctional Facility with four guided aerial bombs, according to the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine. At least 42 inmates were hospitalized with serious injuries, while another 40 people, including one staff member, sustained various injuries. The strike destroyed the prison's dining hall, damaged administrative and quarantine buildings, but the perimeter fence held and no escapes were reported, authorities said. In Dnipro, missiles hit the city of Kamianske, partially destroying a three-storey building and damaging nearby medical facilities including a maternity hospital and a city hospital ward. Two people were killed and five were wounded, including a mother-to-be who is now in a serious condition, according to regional head Serhii Lysak. (AP)
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India says gunmen behind Kashmir mass slaughter killed
India says gunmen behind Kashmir mass slaughter killed The Kashmir mass killings sparked off a security clampdown in Srinagar. File photo: Reuters Indian security forces have killed three gunmen who were involved in an attack on Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir, home minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday. The heavily-armed men were killed in a military operation on Monday, more than three months after 26 people were gunned down in a popular resort town of Indian Kashmir on April 22. "I want to tell the parliament [that] those who attacked in Baisaran were three terrorists and all three have been killed," he said. Shah identified two of the three killed as members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a UN-designated terrorist group based in Pakistan. "Indian security agencies have detailed evidence of their involvement in the attack," he said in a speech in the lower house of parliament. Monday's operation took place in the mountains of Dachigam, around 30 kilometres from the disputed region's main city of Srinagar, the army said in a statement. The attack in April saw gunmen burst out of forests near Pahalgam and rake crowds of visitors with automatic weapons. All those killed were listed as residents of India except one man from Nepal. India accused Pakistan of backing the attackers, a charge Islamabad denied, sparking an intense four-day conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals in May that killed more than 70 people on both sides. Muslim-majority Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since their independence from British rule in 1947, and the neighbours – who both claim the region in full – have fought two wars and several conflicts over its control. (AFP)
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Thailand-Cambodia border war drives mass exodus as attacks mount
Around 100,000 people have fled clashes along Thailand 's border as Cambodia was accused on Friday of launching renewed rocket barrages and rival troops exchanged gunfire in a crisis that has left at least 15 Thais dead. A weeks-long stand-off erupted into open conflict on Thursday, with Thailand using F-16 fighter jets to strike targets inside Cambodia while salvoes of Russian-made rockets hit Thai territory. Both sides blamed each other for triggering the violence along at least six spots on their shared border, with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet calling Bangkok's action 'unprovoked, premeditated and deliberate' in a letter to the United Nations Security Council, which will hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the violence. Meanwhile, Thailand on Friday accused Cambodia of striking first and targeting civilians, including in a hospital in Surin province. The health ministry said 15 people, including a soldier, had died so far. According to the Thai interior ministry, more than 100,000 people from four border provinces had been evacuated to temporary shelters. Cambodia is yet to issue an official casualty report from its side.
