⚡️Washington and Taipei are planning to announce talks to strengthen economic ties

✈️✈️Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines will be cutting about 100 flights daily around its network starting in July and extending into the beginning of August. Delta did not explicitly say if the cut flights were previously scheduled flights, which people may have already purchased tickets for

A release posted on Delta's website said "if upcoming bookings for later this summer happen to change, our teams will provide customers with the next-best itinerary that gets them where they need to go with the shortest delay possible."

It's not clear how many of these flights would have been scheduled to depart Atlanta.
The company claimed that the reduced service "will build additional resilience in our system and improve operational reliability for our customers and employees."

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🥺🥺Just two days after his wife was killed in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Joe Garcia, the husband of teacher Irma Garcia, died, Garcia’s relatives said Thursday.

On Tuesday, Irma Garcia, 46, was among the 21 people killed during the attack, about 85 miles west of San Antonio. Of these victims, 19 were students around the age of 10.

Joe Garcia’s death was first reported by the nephew of Irma Garcia, who tweeted Thursday:

“EXTREMELY heartbreaking and come with deep sorrow to say that my Tia Irma’s husband Joe Garcia has passed away due to grief. I truly am at a loss for words for how we are all feeling. PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR FAMILY. God have mercy on us. This isn’t easy.”

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🚫 Deaths caused by gun violence have increased sharply in recent years, eclipsing those caused by car accidents in 2020 among American children, according to researchers at the University of Michigan.

According to data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 45,222 people were killed by people wielding guns in the United States in 2020 - a 13.5% increase over the previous year.

That trend was driven by a 33.4% increase in firearm homicides, as well as a 1.1% increase in suicide by firearm; the former, they note, disproportionately affect younger people.

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🇺🇸👶 This is what abortion looks like now in the US, after Oklahoma adopted the nation’s strictest abortion law

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⚡️ Woman injured in shelling of Russian village by Ukrainian troops dies, governor says

📹 Russian engineering troops from the Western Military District continue to clear the territory belonging to the liberated settlements of the Kharkov region from unexploded Ukrainian ordnance

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📹 Russia's Ministry of Defence has published footage showing the combat work of the 2S7M "Malka" 203mm self-propelled gun

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⚡️ Moscow declares five Croatian diplomats personae non gratae

📌 Russian MoD’s latest update on the special operation in Ukraine:

▪️ Russian aerospace forces have destroyed the Buk-M1-2 air defense missile launcher and the Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system;

▪️ Russian high-precision air-based missiles destroyed the Ukrainian air defence guidance and target designation radar near Gusarovka;

▪️ Russian air defences shot down one Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft in the Odessa region;

▪️ Russian aviation destroyed two ammunition depots, disabled nine tanks and five Ukrainian Grad multiple rocket launchers;

▪️ Russian air defences intercepted a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile in the LPR;

▪️ In total, 180 Ukrainian airplanes and 127 helicopters, 1,027 drones, 324 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,281 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 438 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,693 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,218 units of special military vehicles have thus far been destroyed during the operation

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📹 Ukrainian captives express their wish to help burying their former colleagues and to help Ukrainian families find their relations

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⚡️ Kremlin on Zelensky's statement about readiness to resume talks: 'This contradicts with fact that negotiations were frozen by Kiev'

Russia's Ministry of Defence has opened a humanitarian corridor for foreign vessels leaving Mariupol port. The corridor has been opened since 25 May and is accessible every day. During daylight hours, vessels quitting the port will be accompanied by tugs to the assembly point

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📹 Residents of Trudovskaya village near Donetsk have hardly any communication and can't call each other. They are forced to climb onto the roof to find a connection spot

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📹🎞 Residents of liberated Svetlodarsk have told how Azov neo-Nazis drove cars while drunk and smashed gates into the civilian yards. They also didn't let people use electricity

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⚡️ Austrian chancellor will hold phone conversation with Russian president on Friday

📹🎞 The All Russian People's Front - with the help of war correspondents, bloggers, artists and athletes, as well as Russian citizens - organised the acquisition of things which were necessary for the power units of the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics

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⚡️ Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was added to the Ukrainian blacklist Myrotvorets "for participation in the Russian special information operation"

⚡⚡Russian MoD presents new docs on 'dozens' of Pentagon-backed bioweapons projects in Ukraine

Pathogens of dangerous diseases were stored in Ukraine despite safety violations - Russian Defence Ministry

US instructors trained personnel in Ukrainian biolabs to respond to smallpox outbreaks - Russian Defence Ministry