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Volodímir Zelenski accused Russia on Friday of deliberately attacking the civilian population after two Russian drones struck a shopping center in broad daylight in Kriví Rih, the hometown of the Ukrainian president. The attack killed at least 14 people and injured another 121, including 22 children. In a message on social media, Zelenski described the action as an “absolutely cynical and cowardly strike.”

Melania Trump, 56 years old, found the way out of the White House maze in which she had been lost for several weeks. There had been no news of her, nor images, as if she had vanished since attending with her husband, but in a much more discreet role, the World Cup final held on July 19 at MetLife in New Jersey.

German security agencies suspect that agents of the Russian secret services may have planned attacks in Germany, following the discovery of an underground stash with several firearms and ammunition in a forest near Berlin.

Today’s wars cannot be understood without drones. Aware of this, the U.S. military created a unit based in Europe last November dedicated to studying and mastering the use of this weaponry. The idea was to draw lessons from what is happening in Ukraine, where unmanned vehicles have completely transformed the battlefield. Once their training was completed, the group, named the Unmanned Assault Battalion, had to be capable of deploying anywhere the use of drones was required.

Zhuravlyov was arrested this Wednesday for his involvement in the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipeline in 2022, in which a team of Ukrainian divers allegedly placed explosives on one of the underwater pipelines crossing the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany, supplying gas to Western Europe. The explosions occurred just a few months after Russia launched its large-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The future of Donald Trump’s ballroom in the White House is in the hands of the United States Supreme Court. This Friday, the ruling that ordered the halt of the works on the ground level of the president’s flagship project in the presidential complex came into effect, as the two-week suspension of the order granted by the judge for the Administration to file an appeal before the highest judicial authority expired.

The prestige of Mossad, the espionage agency that for decades cultivated its legend of omniscience, is going through low times. The Israeli secret service, which once boasted of knowing the streets of Tehran better than those of Tel Aviv, now suffers the consequences of the failure of its most ambitious plan: overthrowing the regime of the ayatollahs. The internal crisis also erupts at the worst possible moment for Israel, with the October elections just around the corner, half a dozen open fronts between Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank, and a conflict with Iran that, far from being resolved, has become entrenched.

After nine at sea and in unhealthy conditions, the 5,000 sailors and soldiers aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, one of the largest aircraft carriers in the United States fleet, have begun their journey back to San Diego, the coastal city in southern California, this Thursday. To continue their mission in the Middle East, due to the Iran war, the Pentagon has deployed another aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington. This was announced on Sunday by Admiral Brad Cooper, head of the United States Central Command, in an opinion article published in The Wall Street Journal, and confirmed this Thursday by Administration officials.

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook the Andean region of Ayacucho in southern Peru this Thursday. The Geophysical Institute of Peru has detailed that the epicenter of the earthquake was located 35 kilometers from the town of Cora Cora, with no personal or material damage reported so far due to the great depth of the ⁠epicenter of the movement.

North Korea launched ten ballistic missiles over the Sea of Japan on Thursday morning, just hours after Donald Trump had downplayed his support for the southern neighbor and shown his respect for Kim Jong Un, whom he has promised to meet before the end of the year.