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Ukraine targets St. Petersburg after Putin rejects Zelenskyy's offer for direct talks

Residents of St. Petersburg have been told to stay indoors after a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack targeted the city

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Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit placed on a lung transplant list

Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on a lung transplant list due to worsening pulmonary fibrosis

Aviation industry looks skywards as leaders fly in for Rio summit

Oil tankers may be stuck behind strait of Hormuz, but holding the Iata AGM in Brazil defies warnings of impending shortagesNothing says jet fuel crisis, as one prospective attender put it, like flying everyone to Rio de Janeiro. Aviation leaders will converge in Brazil this weekend for the Iata AGM, the annual global airline summit, with the industry still, for the most part, looking resolutely skyward.The oil tankers may still be stuck behind the strait of Hormuz as the conflict between the US, Israel and Iran flickers on, but for now, airlines continue to defy dire warnings of impending shortages which had stoked fears of a summer of chaos for European holidaymakers. Continue reading...

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Taipei Zoo welcomes pair of red pandas from China, first in over a decade

A zoo in Taiwan's capital has received a pair of endangered red pandas from China

Spearfisher killed in Australia’s third fatal shark attack in four weeks

A spearfisher has been killed in Australia’s third fatal shark attack in four weeks, according to police