At least 68 people have been killed in fresh flooding in central Afghanistan that began on Friday, The Guardian reported , citing regional officials. Dozens more are missing. Ghor Governor Abdul Wahid Hamas said thousands of homes were damaged and hundreds of hectares of farmland were destroyed. More than 300 animals were killed in the flooding.

The European Union has tightened requirements for the import of pets from Russia and Belarus, Delfi reports , citing the State Food and Veterinary Service (SFVS) of Lithuania. Now, before traveling to EU countries, an animal will need to undergo a serological test for antibodies to the rabies virus. At the border, owners will have to provide a certificate of this test. The measure will come into effect on September 16 this year.

A participant in the war in Ukraine who works part-time at a construction site was beaten up in Vladivostok. He was hospitalized with a broken arm, Vesti Primorye reports . The publication does not name the man. The victim said on social media that he was wounded in the war in Ukraine and as a result lost his right leg, and a titanium plate was inserted into his right arm. In November 2023, the man was discharged from the hospital and returned home. While he was at the front, his wife died.

In Canada, more and more people are refusing to collect the bodies of relatives from morgues. Often the reason is a lack of money for expensive funerals, Reuters reports . According to the agency, 1,183 bodies were not collected from morgues in Ontario, Canada's most populous province, last year. That's nearly five times more than 10 years ago, said Dirk Heyer, the region's chief coroner. In a quarter of the cases, relatives did not collect the bodies because they lacked money for burial.

On the morning of May 19, a shootout occurred in a parking lot in a residential building in Kemerovo. A video that captures how several people run between cars, and against the background the sounds of shots are heard, regional publics were published, RusNews paid attention. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, early in the morning the conflict occurred between two groups of men. Arriving at the place, the police detained four people. Two more tried to hide, but were also detained.

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi made a hard landing near the border with Azerbaijan, the Iranian news agencies Tasnim and IRNA reported. Along with Raisi, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and other officials were on board the helicopter, Tasnim reports. There were three helicopters in the president's motorcade. The other two - with ministers and officials on board - landed safely.

What causes cancer, where they are sick more often and why. Check your knowledge in the "cold" test Every year, 20 million new cases of cancer are recorded in the world, and 10 million people die with this diagnosis. Despite the development of medicine, by 2050, the number of new cases of cancer will reach 35 million a year. This is affected by the deterioration of ecology, products and lifestyle. The list of substances that can provoke cancer is growing all the time - now there are 128 of them.

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev criticized the YandexGPT neural network, which is used in the smart speaker "Alice", in his Telegram channel. He did not like the column's responses about Ukraine and the West, as a result of which he proposed recognizing Yandex managers as "foreign agents". According to Medvedev, he asked Alisa three questions. The first was about when the law on the seizure of Russian assets was passed in the US.

Journalists and even Angela Merkel stood up for him. He was believed and released, but after the new evidence was revealed The journalist and creator of True-Rim Podkasta Amanda Knox spent four years to prove that she was innocent. In 2007, she was accused of killing a neighbor in an apartment and convicted of 26 years. Having achieved the revision of the case, the Knox was released and began to help others unfairly convicted.