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Šiaurės rytų Tailande vienuolikos metų berniukas, vairuodamas pikapą, įsirėžė į vienuolius.

The young migrants heading to Europe say they were stripped and had their hands tied in freezing temperatures.

Russia launched its biggest strikes on the city in weeks with children among the "significant number" of casualties, Ukrainian officials say.

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KYIV — Russia attacked Ukraine with a massive wave of missiles and drones on Thursday concentrated on the capital Kyiv, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 80. The Air Force said Russia launched 74 missiles and more than 490 attack drones, some of which targeted Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned of a major Russian aerial assault on Wednesday, when he cut short a visit to Ireland. The Russian strikes come after Ukrainian deep strikes inflicted serious damage on its energy infrastructure, causing a fuel supply crisis, and forced authorities to declare a state of emergency on the Crimean peninsula. Local authorities recorded damage and destruction at more than 30 locations in all districts of Kyiv, including a hospital, a household appliances warehouse and a hotel in the city center. Residential buildings were among the sites hit, with over 20 direct hits reported. Both Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko and Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv military administration, said a number of civilians were believed to be trapped under the ruins of the damaged housing. Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko described the attack as the “most massive” to hit the Ukrainian capital and said emergency response teams were attempting to rescue victims buried under the rubble. He also said the city would declare an official day of mourning on July 3 to commemorate the victims. “Russia continues to terrorize peaceful Ukrainians,” Svyrydenko said. “Enhanced air defense of Ukraine and tougher sanctions that will deprive Russia of the ability to produce missiles are the only way to stop this terror.” Ukrainian air defense managed to shoot down most of the drones and 44 of 46 cruise missiles, but only four out of 24 ballistic missiles launched by Moscow. Kyiv has reported a deficit of PAC-3 and PAC-2 interceptors following U.S. military operations against Iran. “Decisions on air defense systems and missiles for Ukraine are needed now, not later!” Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in a post on social media. “Decisions on increasing sanctions pressure on Russia are needed now, not later! Decisions on increasing support for Ukraine, including energy assistance, are needed now, not later!” As of press time, Russia’s Defense Ministry had not issued an official statement regarding the latest massive attack on Ukraine. It did, however, report the interception and destruction of 327 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory.

BRUSSELS — EU budget commissioner Piotr Serafin warned frugal countries that drastic cuts to the bloc’s proposed €2 trillion budget would disproportionally hit their own priorities. Serafin’s intervention on Thursday comes after Germany this week proposed downsizing the bloc’s next seven-year cash pot by €400 billion, roughly a fifth of its total value. Germany and its allies criticized a 2 percent cut to the budget proposed last month by the Cypriot presidency of the Council of the EU as insufficient. But in a stinging rebuke, Serafin warned that demands for drastic cuts may undermine the frugals’ priority to steer billions from traditional priorities such as agricultural to “modern” policies including defense and competitiveness. “A more frugal EU budget may not necessarily be modern,” he said in the opening speech of the European Commission’s annual budget conference. “The risk is that those new aspects of modernity will be the first ones to be chopped.” The frugals are pressuring the new Irish Council presidency, which will broker the budget negotiations, to pursue deeper overall cuts while protecting spending on defense and competitiveness. They also dismissed Cyprus’ proposed cuts, arguing that they disproportionately targeted their priority areas. In his speech, Serafin also warned that smaller collective EU spending might result in a higher bill for national governments. “Too often, a disunited approach means a higher bill: more duplication and fewer economies of scale,” he said. “In many areas, the alternative to European spending is not no spending at all. It is national spending.”

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Russian missile and drone strikes tore open apartment buildings in Kyiv early Thursday, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Moscow was preparing a "massive attack". Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.

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