UKRAINE: Emergency workers today were pulling out bodies from the rubble of a nine-storey Kiev apartment hit by a Russian missile on Tuesday, raising the death toll from the latest attack to 28.

Authorities said that 23 of those killed were inside the building while the remaining five died elsewhere in the city.

It comes as Russia said that North Korea will send thousands of military workers to support reconstruction work in the Kursk region.

INDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told US President Donald Trump that Delhi will never accept third-party mediation with Pakistan on the issue of Kashmir, India's senior-most diplomat said.

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said the PM “strongly” conveyed India’s long-held stance to Mr Trump during a phone call between the two leaders.

The US president has repeatedly offered to mediate between India and Pakistan to solve the “Kashmir issue” since a four-day conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours in May.

US: The number of millionaires in the US have grown by 379,000 in the last year, the Global Wealth Report revealed today. 

The United States accounted for almost 40 per cent of global millionaires in 2024 and more than 1,000 people a day became new US dollar millionaires. 

More than 80 per cent of adults worldwide in the report's sample, however, had a net worth of under $100,000 (£74,288).

MEXICO: A former defence lawyer for the jailed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was elected today as a judge in the country’s first-ever judicial elections.

Silvia Delgado won enough votes to secure a position as a local criminal judge in the city of Ciudad Juarez, on the US-Mexico border.

Her candidacy was one of the most controversial in the election held on June 1 having been accused of alleged links to organised crime.