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00:00 Ukraine has declared a day of national mourning after a string of violent Russian attacks on several of its main cities this weekend.
00:09 International tensions grow in Gaza as Israel strikes Rafa this weekend and plans an upcoming ground offensive.
00:18 Finnish citizens head to the polls to decide on a new president in a second and decisive round of voting.
00:28 The Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has declared a day of mourning today for victims of the recent mass Russian airstrike which claimed at least seven lives including three children this weekend.
00:44 Russian drones on Saturday hit a local oil depot, spraying nearby buildings with burning fuel. According to the local authorities, 15 residential buildings were burned down.
00:56 On Saturday, the Russian Ministry of Defence published a video of Minister Sergei Shoygu visiting a drone production plant in the Udmurtia region where he inspected new drone models.
01:07 According to the Russian military, this enterprise has increased production by 60% since the beginning of the war.
01:14 In Moscow on Saturday, wives of Russian soldiers gathered near the Kremlin wall. They demand the government bring back their husbands and stop the fighting.
01:24 The "Way Home" movement is one of the only known anti-war protests in Russia which is still not completely banned.
01:30 Israeli military invited foreign journalists to inspect what it claimed to be an extended network of Hamas tunnels under the main headquarters of the UNRWA agency.
01:43 Israel claims the UNRWA-Hamas relations are active on a permanent basis and that the newly discovered tunnels are clear evidence of it.
01:54 Meanwhile, airstrikes on the Gaza Strip's southernmost town of Rafa have killed at least 44 people.
02:01 Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday stated that the IDF's grand invasion will start in less than a month.
02:10 Turkish NGO Humanitarian Relief Foundation said on Saturday it wants to resume its activities in Gaza.
02:20 In May 2010, the group were intercepted by Israeli forces in the Red Sea while heading to the Strip with food and medicine. Nine activists were killed.
02:29 Citizens in Finland head to the polls this Sunday to decide on a new president and a second undecisive round of voting.
02:44 Former Prime Minister Alexander Stubbe from the centre-right faces former Foreign Minister Pekka Havisto on the green-left.
02:51 Stubbe took the top spot in the first round of the election in January with 27.2% of the votes. He is the favourite to win the presidency.
03:01 Havisto, on the other hand, took home only 25.8%.
03:08 The winner's main task will be to guide the new NATO members' foreign and security policy amid Russia's grinding invasion of Ukraine.
03:16 The pair largely agree on some issues already. These include maintaining a hard line towards Russia, which shares a border with Finland, strengthening security ties with Washington and helping Ukraine.
03:33 Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday in the Italian town of Trento to protest against the killing of a bear.
03:39 The bear, known as M90, was killed earlier this week after local authorities considered him too confident.
03:46 They claim he was often seen wandering near human houses. In one occasion, he followed a couple of hikers for half a kilometre.
03:55 Protesters insisted the situation could have been dealt with differently. They say the order to kill was made too quickly, giving animal rights activists no time to overturn it.
04:04 Citizens of North Macedonia queue at police stations in an attempt to get their new passports.
04:15 On Monday, the validity of their old ones, which do not say the word "North", will expire.
04:24 While old IDs will remain valid at home, the delay in issuing passports threatens to affect citizens' movements.
04:31 Travel could be restricted and those who are abroad after the 12th of February prevented from returning home.
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