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Russia’s defence ministry has admitted responsibility for a missile strike that destroyed a shopping centre in a central Ukrainian city but denied reports of civilian casualties, saying it had hit a military target. Ukrainian officials said at least 20 people died in Monday’s air strike on Kremenchuk, 25 were being treated in hospital and 40 were missing. Rescue workers are still searching the site and authorities expect the death toll to rise. The attack, which is likely to lead to one of the worst civilian death tolls in a single strike since Russia’s invasion of its neighbour in February, was...

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine. ◽️Successful joint actions of the Russian troops, units of the people's militia of the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics inflict critical losses on the Armed Forces of Ukraine . ◽️As a result of the strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the deployment point of the Nazi formation "Azov" in Kharkov and one of the battalions of the 92nd motorized infantry brigade near the village of Pokotilovka, Kharkov region , more than a hundred Ukrainian military personnel, foreign mercenaries and up to 15 units of armored...

DENVER, Colo. -- The man police said planted a pipe bomb at a Littleton mall was released from prison one week before the incident. A nation-wide manhunt is underway for Earl Albert Moore, 65, who's accused of planting the explosives Wednesday, the anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings. Moore is considered armed and dangerous. The FBI confirmed that he had been serving time in a Georgia prison for a 2005 armed robbery in West Virginia. Moore had been sentenced to 18 years, but was released early on April 13. Authorities said just seven days later, he planted a pipe...

HELSINKI, Finland -- Police probing Finland's worst peacetime bomb attack were trying today to work out whether their only suspect, a chemistry student who was among the seven dead, had found bomb-making instructions on the Internet. Investigators appealed to the public for information about the 19-year-old chemistry student, who lived at home with his parents, attended a technology institute in the Helsinki suburb of Vantaa and spent a lot of time hooked up to the Internet. The home-made bomb, weighing up to three kg (6.6 pounds) and packed with metal shards, went off close to a children's area in a...