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Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv regional military administration, said a rescue operation is currently underway to find if more people were trapped under the debris, reports CNN.”We are currently working through the rubble. Of course, there are wounded and dead. This is how the Russian world came to Lviv,” Kozytskyi said.”Look at the result of the Russian world. It was a direct hit on a residential building.”In a video posted to Telegram, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said more people could be under the rubble.”Many rooms, apartments have been damaged, windows in many buildings have been blown out, and many…

Bluesky said on Thursday that it will also offer a paid service that provides custom domains for end users who want to have a unique domain as their handle on the service.The Twitter competitor raised $8 million in a seed round led by Neo, a community-led firm with partners like Ali Partovi and Suzanne Xie.Additional investors included Joe Beda who co-created Kubernetes, Bob Young of Red Hat, Amjad Masad of Replit, Amir Shevat, Heather Meeker, Jeromy Johnson, Automattic, Protocol Labs, Sarah Drasner, Katelyn Donnelly, Ali Evans, Stav Erez, Kris Nova, Brad Fitzpatrick, Abdul Ly, and others.The funds will be used…

According to Superintendent of Police of Karbi Anglong, Sanjib Kumar Saikia, “We arrested Shahid Hussain in Laharijan area in the district on Wednesday. He was caught with a consignment of illegal narcotics. However, he tried to flee from police custody by jumping from the vehicle, and to stop him, he had to be shot in the leg.”Hussain was arrested with an illegal consignment of heroin that weighed around 1.17 kg. These were kept in 94 soap boxes in a vehicle, he said.”The market value of the seized drug should be around six to seven crore,” the officer added.Police also arrested…

According to a senior defence officials, the results of a 45-day review of Pentagon policies and procedures, ordered by Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin in the wake of the leak, suggested the need to increase oversight for those trusted with classified national security information, the BBC reported.The new measures include the appointment of officers to control the level of access to top secret data and installing systems to detect electronic devices.Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old former US air national guardsman, has been charged under the Espionage Act for allegedly posting the sensitive material online.He has however, denied the charge and is currently…

Enrique penned a two-year contract with PSG on Wednesday, which makes him the fourth head coach for the Qatari-owned club since Thomas Tuchel took over in 2018. Tuchel was replaced by Mauricio Pochettino in January 2021, before the Argentine was fired last summer and Galtier was given the reins.”I’m delighted to be joining Paris to enjoy a new experience,” Enrique said on Wednesday. “It’s so exciting to meet new people, to live in this city, to learn a new language and, above all, to manage PSG.”The 53-year-old Spaniard led Barcelona to the treble in 2015, also winning the European Super…

The incident had created panic and tension among the locals and police.Following the incident late on Wednesday night, a search operation was carried out.Notably, the miscreant had called the National Police helpline 112 and claimed that terrorists had planted a bomb on the premises of the Azam Mosque of Shivajinagar.Immediately, the officials of fire force and emergency services, police department, bomb disposal squad were rushed to the spot and a search operation was conducted.Preliminary inquiries have indicated that the call was made from outside Bengaluru to create panic and tension.Shivajinagar police have lodged a case and are investigating it.–IANSmka/shb

The Defence Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) recently put up a notice for the 48.5 billion won ($37.2 million) project on its procurement website as Seoul has sought to bolster anti-drone capabilities after North Korea’s drone incursions late last year, reports Yonhap News Agency.Under the project, DAPA seeks to purchase the counter-drone system to be operated by the Army, the Navy and the Air Force from local companies. It will accept bids through August 8.The system is expected to be able to detect small-sized drones and neutralise them by jamming their signals.”In order to prepare against various North Korean unmanned assets…

The much awaited monsoon rain have arrived in the state, bringing cheers to the farming community. State capital Bengaluru woke up to drizzles on Thursday morning, But commuters faced trouble as waterlogging in parts of the city led to traffic jams.Meanwhile, fishermen have alerted not to venture into the sea. One person was killed in Dakshina Kannada district on Wednesday due to the heavy rain. It is predicted that the Uttara Kannada district will witness thunderstorms with heavy winds. Heavy rain will lash Belagavi, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, Kalaburgi, Raichur, Chikkamagalur, Davanagere, Kodagu, Shivamogga and Vijayanagar districts. Mysuru, Ramnagar and Bengaluru…

In a judgment delivered Wednesday, the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg found among other things that Zuma instituted the private prosecution of Ramaphosa for an “ulterior motive”, Xinhua news agency quoted the South African Broadcasting Corporation as saying.Zuma had accused Ramaphosa of being an accessory to a crime related to prosecutor advocate Billy Downer’s alleged leaking of the former president’s medical records. He further alleged that Ramaphosa failed to act on the alleged breach which he argues compromised the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and by extension, the criminal justice system as a whole, the report said.The court declared that the…

According to a statement released by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Wednesday, Elizabeth Tsurkov was abducted by Kata’ib Hezbollah, a paramilitary group that is part of the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces, reports Xinhua news agency.Tsurkov “is still alive and we hold Iraq responsible for her safety and well-being”, Netanyahu’s office said.Tsurkov is an academic and an expert in Middle East studies. She visited Iraq on her Russian passport, the office added, emphasising that she traveled to Iraq “at her own initiative pursuant to work on her doctorate and academic research on behalf of Princeton University in the US”.The office…