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At least 15 people were killed following the attack in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine on Monday, according to regional governor Dmytro Lunin. Around 50 additional victims were injured when two Russian missiles struck the crowded mall, according to Reuters. The attack was quickly condemned by the G7 leaders, who are currently meeting at the organization’s annual summit in Germany. “We, the Leaders of the G7, solemnly condemn the abominable attack on a shopping mall in Kremenchuk,” the leaders said in a statement shared to the official Twitter account of the 2022 German Presidency of the G7....

New statistics on the state of the Russian economy, produced by the country’s Federal State Statistics Service, show production has plunged in multiple sectors, from vehicles to domestic appliances, as has retail confidence. Overall, Russia’s industrial production index—a monthly economic indicator measuring real output in the manufacturing, mining, electric, and gas industries—dropped by 1.7 percent in May compared to the same month in 2021. That’s higher than the decline of 1....

The U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) made the assessment after Putin said in a rare admission Thursday that “all mistakes” made in in efforts to mobilize should be corrected. Since Putin declared a partial mobilization on September 21, multiple reports have emerged of ineligible men being called up for military service. “In the course of this mobilization, many questions are coming up, and all mistakes must be corrected and prevented from happening in the future,” the Russian leader said in his opening remarks at the Russian Security Council meeting on Thursday....

The staff posted its message on Facebook. “It is expected that the grouping of the enemy’s troops operating in the temporarily occupied and temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine will be strengthened due to the transfer of individual units from the territory of the Republic of Belarus after they acquire combat capabilities,” they wrote. According to the Ukraine armed forces, there have been more than 87,000 Russian deaths since the full-scale war in Ukraine began in February....

The Russian Defense Ministry’s Syria reconciliation center said on Thursday that six American MRAP-type armored vehicles had taken an “uncoordinated route and without prior notice” in the Kurdish-held Syrian province of Hasakah. Rear admiral Alexander Karpov, the reconciliation center’s deputy head, said in the statement that Russia’s military police patrol had stopped the U.S. convoy as it traveled west along the M-4 highway and told it to head back in the opposite direction....

Russia’s Defense Ministry said this week that a detachment of its Pacific Fleet, including missile cruiser Varyag, anti-submarine ship Admiral Tributs and the sea tanker Boris Butoma, entered the Iranian port of Chabahar for the exercises. The drills began Friday and included rescuing a floating vessel, releasing a hijacked vessel, shooting at targets, “and other tactical and operational exercises,” news outlet Hamshahri reported, according to a translation. Moscow announced the trilateral exercises dubbed CHIRU in August and said the drills with China and Iran were aimed at “ensuring international shipping safety” and “combating piracy....

Alexei Katerinichev, who served as the first deputy head for security of the Kremlin-appointed administration of the Kherson region, was killed on Friday, Kirill Stremousov, the deputy head of the Moscow-controlled region, said. “[Alexei] Katerinichev died as a result of a pinpoint strike from HIMARS. Two rockets hit the house in which he was,” Stremousov was cited by Russia’s state-run news agency Tass as saying. Alexander Malkevich, a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, an oversight committee, also confirmed Katerinichev’s death in a statement on his Telegram channel....

In an operational update on Facebook, the General Staff detailed what it said were some of the issues facing Russia’s troops in the Ukraine war. These included a lack of material and technical support for Russian units taking part in “hostilities” on Ukrainian territory. In the southern Kherson region, for example, there have been increases in theft and looting by Russian soldiers who don’t have access to warm clothes, the update said....

Investigators are reportedly trying to figure out whether the incident was a domestic murder-suicide or an organized hit. Their bodies were discovered just one day after another Russian gas boss was found dead in similar circumstances alongside his family in Moscow. Spanish news website El Punt Avui reported the bodies of Sergey Protosenya, 55, his wife and his daughter were found at around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19 at their home in the seaside resort of Lloret de Mar in Spain’s Catalonia region....

Tottenham are set to offer Atletico Madrid winger Nicolas Gaitan a route out of the club in the January transfer window, according to Spanish publication AS. Mauricio Pochettino is a fan of his countryman having monitored him while the 28-year-old was in Portugal with Benfica, and is hoping to secure a deal before the end of the month. Gaitan has scored twice for Diego Simeone’s men in La Liga this season despite starting just three games, having failed to establish himself completely in the Atletico first-team....

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has opened talks with Miralem Pjanic concerning a potential move to the Emirates Stadium, according to The Sun. With Santi Cazorla tipped to leave north London, Wenger is set on recruiting a top-class midfielder to fill in for the Spain international. And Juventus’ Bosnian star has already been contacted by the veteran manager, with a potential transfer most likely in the summer window.

If manufactured, the device will be the first hexa camera smartphone produced for mass release. Combining this with dual front-facing selfie cameras could mean an unprecedented eight cameras on a single smartphone. Twitter user Max J, who broke the news, revealed the expected camera specs in a follow-up tweet. These include time-of-flight sensors on the front and rear of the device, as well as 20Mp, 48Mp, 16Mp, 8Mp and 12Mp lenses....

These commands can be helpful if Windows won’t start, but you do have access to Command Prompt. Having quick access from the Run box is nice, too. Run Commands in Windows 7 For example, a number of executables can only be run from the Run box and not Command Prompt, and some others are only available in certain versions of Windows 7. [1] This command can’t be executed from the Command Prompt because the file isn’t in the default Windows path....

Daniel Worsley, Ashley’s owner, shared the story to a local Facebook group, Pippa’s Army, devoted to finding lost pets in the area of Havering and Thurrock in England. What might be strange about Worsley posting there is that he and Ashley are from Glan Conwy in North Wales. Worsley says that on April 15, Ashley—normally an indoor cat who had never been outside—jumped out a bathroom window left open by a housecleaner....

A report from the California Highway Patrol said a vendor parked a golf cart to deliver boxes near a concession stand and when they got out, a box fell onto the accelerator and the cart started to move. The report said those injured ranged in age from 25 to 82 and that two people were taken to hospital. Tournament organisers the USGA released a statement acknowledging the incident. “Unfortunately, during today’s second round of the U....

Rune Factory 5 was a long time coming and has already proven to be a certified hit on Nintendo Switch. It is the first mainline entry since 2012’s Rune Factory 4 on the Nintendo 3DS, and its enhanced port on the Nintendo Switch was released in 2019. What are Footwear in Rune Factory 5, and how to craft them? Along with Body Armor and Headgear, Footwear or shoes are an essential part of the Rune Factory 5’s defensive ensemble....

Sprinting spikes are best for 100, 200, and 400 meter events. 6mm spikes are best for track and field events and are the most versatile spike. Spikes come in many lengths, but spikes longer than 6mm are actually illegal on many tracks. [4] X Research source Middle distance spikes are ideal for 800, 1500, 1600, and mile distances⁠—but can also be used for 400 and 2 mile events. They’re the best option if you’re not sure about what events you’re competing in, or if you compete in a wide range of events....

The Fruit of an Internal Hackathon Bounty Installing Doom on everything from a calculator to a pregnancy test has been a running hacker meme. Not surprisingly, there’s hardly any device with a processor and display in existence that cannot run the seminal shooter. Taking cue from this trend, The Qt Company had tasked its developers with porting the game on microcontrollers during an internal hackathon. The winning implementation of Doom was ported to a hardware platform sporting a relatively beefy NXP Semiconductors MCU equipped with a 600MHz ARM Cortex-M7 core with 512KB RAM....

Now Netflix has announced that actor Rupert Evans, 44, is joining the cast of the Shondaland period drama and he will be playing a major role—that of Edmund Bridgerton. “Dearest readers, Rupert Evans joins the cast of @bridgerton as Edmund Bridgerton, the loving and devoted husband of Violet Bridgerton and an endlessly patient and kind father who takes special pride in guiding his eldest son Anthony through life,” the announcement read via Twitter....

The satellite business may finally be headed into orbit. For most of the evolution of the American television industry, satellite TV was no more than a blip on the screen. For almost two decades, cable and over-the-air broadcasters had the battle for the nation’s 100 million TV homes largely to themselves. And what a fight it’s been, with years of brutal and costly clashes stretching from the marketplace to the halls of every branch of the federal government....