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EU targets Russia’s shadow fleet and bans former soldiers in new sanctions

On Monday, the European Union adopted its 21st package of sanctions against Russia to further drain the Kremlin's war chest and restrict military influence.

The measures specifically target 54 entities involved in the "shadow fleet" used to bypass international oil price caps, along with major shipping arms of Gazprom and Lukoil. For the first time, the bloc is moving to ban any Russian national who has fought in Ukraine from obtaining a visa to enter Europe. High-profile figures like President Putin’s personal priest, the Prosecutor General, and the head of the World Chess Federation were also added to the blacklist.

EU officials expect these restrictions to hamper energy profits as they prepare further bans on Russian seafood and tech imports.

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Israeli Bombings Kill 2,300 In Lebanon in 3 weeks

Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.The Israeli military has ordered people living in more than a quarter of Lebanon to flee, according to a UN calculation, as its fight with the Iran-backed Shia militant group Hizbollah threatens to engulf the Mediterranean country.Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.More than 1mn people have fled their homes in Lebanon in under a month, according to its government, a dramatic forced movement of the population in a country of only about 5mn inhabitants with a land mass smaller than the US state of Connecticut. Israeli forces began a ground offensive in south Lebanon two weeks ago, in their fourth invasion of the country in under five decades. They had already destroyed large parts of the densely populated southern Beirut suburb where Hizbollah had its headquarters, and killed many top militant commanders in air strikes, including former leader Hassan Nasrallah.Rema Jamous Imseis, Middle East director of UNHCR, told journalists in Geneva that “over 25 per cent of [Lebanon is] under a direct Israeli military evacuation order”. “People are heeding these calls to evacuate and they’re fleeing with almost nothing,” she added, saying that 80 per cent of the shelters opened by the Lebanese government — mostly in schools — were now full.

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