War monitor reports Israeli airstrike in Syria has killed more than 40 people
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At least 36 Syrian soldiers were killed in an Israeli airstrike on an area near Hezbollah weapons depots in Syria’s Aleppo province, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said.
The Syrian defense ministry is saying civilians were among the dead, while Reuters is reporting that the strike killed five Hezbollah members.
“The aggression resulted in the martyrdom and injury of a number of civilians and military personnel and caused material losses to public and private property,” the Syrian defense ministry said in a statement.Russian police detain journalist who filmed last video of Alexei Navalny alive
The journalist Antonina Favorskaya filmed the last video of the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny before he died in a Russian prison. Russian authorities have since detained Favorskaya, accusing her of taking part in an “extremist organization” by posting on the social media platforms of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. However, Favorskaya did not publish anything on the foundation’s platforms, Navalny’s spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said, suggesting that Russian authorities targeted her because she was doing her job as a journalist.
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