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The European Medicines Agency on Thursday disclosed a shortage of an injectable medicine used to treat schizophrenia in some member EU states due to issues at contract manufacturer Pharmathen International.

Paliperidone palmitate, the drug in short supply, is ⁠used ​as a treatment in adults with schizophrenia whose condition has been stabilized with antipsychotic drugs like paliperidone or risperidone.

The shortage affects medicines ​marketed ​by Advanz Pharma, Adamed Pharma, ⁠Alter, Belupo, Biogaran, EGIS Pharmaceuticals, Elpen, G.L. Pharma and Innovis Pharma, ‌the EMA said. Reuters

Israeli strikes killed at least three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said.

Medics said an Israeli airstrike killed one person near Qarara town in the southern Gaza Strip, and ⁠another ​killed a man at a house in the Beach refugee camp in Gaza City.

Another airstrike on Gaza ​City ​later on Thursday hit ⁠a motorist, killing one person, they said.

The Israeli military did ‌not immediately comment on any of the incidents.

An October 2025 U.S.-backed ceasefire halted major fighting in the shattered territory, but it failed to end strikes by ⁠the Israeli military, ⁠which it said aimed to thwart attacks by Hamas and ⁠other ‌Gaza militants. Reuters

Russian accusations of Ukraine being involved in militant ⁠attacks ​in Mali are fake ​and ​not supported by ⁠any evidence, Ukraine's foreign ‌ministry said.

"We reject this typical and ⁠long-standing ⁠lie by Russian officials, ⁠which ‌they ​do not ‌even attempt to ‌back ​up ​with ​any plausible evidence," ​Heorhii Tykhyi, the ⁠ministry's spokesperson, told Reuters. Reuters

The slaughter in Srebrenica was the grisly culmination of a war that had lasted over three years, in which Ratko Mladic, a Bosnian general, pounded the besieged capital Sarajevo daily with the artillery, tanks, mortars and heavy machine guns of his nationalist Serb army, killing 10,000.

The dead from Srebrenica were bulldozed into mass graves over four days in July 1995, some of them dug up and relocated to remote mountains so as to hide evidence of the killings.

The goal, as determined by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), was "ethnic cleansing" — the forcible expulsion of Bosnian Muslims, Croats and other non-Serbs to clear Bosnian lands for a Greater Serbia.

The tribunal found that Mladic, together with late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic, were part of a criminal conspiracy to implement the plan.

"I do not recognise this court," Mladic, dubbed the "Butcher of Bosnia" by his opponents, said at an ICTY hearing on his case in 2014. When he was ⁠sentenced to life ​in prison in 2017 he shouted: "This is all lies, you are all liars!"

According to his son, documents gave Mladic's date of birth at March 12, 1942, but he was actually born on March 8, 1943. Reuters

The number of people filing for U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week, remaining at historic lows as layoffs are rare and most Americans enjoy job security.Jobless claims slipped to 203,000 last week from a revised 207,000 the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out week-to-week ups and downs, ticked up slightly to 205,500.Claims for jobless benefits are a proxy for layoffs, and economists watch them because they can provide early clues of where the job market is headed. For the past year, claims have mostly been at a historically low range of around 200,000 to 230,000 a week. AP

Russia bombarded cities across Ukraine with missiles and drones in an overnight onslaught that ran into the daylight hours Thursday, when explosions echoed around Kyiv through the morning.

Ukraine is desperately short of US-made Patriot air defence missiles that can counter Russia's ballistic missiles, and Moscow's fast-flying jet-powered drones have brought another challenge since the Russian military's full-scale invasion began 4½ years ago.

Ukrainian officials say Russia builds up missile stocks and launches major attacks every few days, hoping to exhaust Ukrainian defences through the sheer weight of numbers. In response, Ukraine has hit high-profile targets on Russian soil as the countries inflict mutual destruction. AP

A lake formed at the site where the flood in ⁠Nepal ​occurred is rising and ​is ​at risk ⁠of bursting, the country's disaster ‌authority said on Thursday, as it appealed ⁠to residents ⁠and rescuers to ⁠stay ‌away ​from the ‌river banks.

The blockage ‌of ​a ​river ​on Wednesday led ​to the ⁠lake's formation, the authority said. Reuters

Russia warned on Thursday that it could strike British military targets inside and outside Ukraine in response to Ukrainian attacks on targets inside Russia using long-range British cruise missiles.

The warning, delivered by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova at a news briefing in Moscow, was the ⁠strongest ​of is kind yet from Russia to Britain, a NATO member state and a staunch ally of Ukraine.

Zakharova said London was "one step away" from becoming legally complicit in ​what ​she called "terrorism" against Russian civilians, something she ⁠said would have "catastrophic consequences" unless Britain changed course.

"We have repeatedly warned that any British ‌military installations and equipment in Ukraine and beyond its borders could be targeted in response to Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory carried out using British weapons," she said. Reuters

A parliamentary health committee on Thursday expressed doubts that a spark from an air-conditioner was the cause of a fire at a state-run hospital in Islamabad that killed 14 newborn babies.

The incident occurred on Wednesday in the gynaecology ward of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), sparking anger over the failure of authorities to save the newborns.

The National Assembly's health committee, led by its chairman Mahesh Kumar, made an unofficial visit to PIMS to ascertain the cause of the tragedy.

Kumar told reporters that CCTV footage did not establish that the AC was the source of the fire, while possible faults in the oxygen pipeline and electrical wiring were being examined, The Express Tribune reported.

Kumar said committee members were told that a spark from an old AC had triggered the fire, but the unit had not been working for a long time. They were also told that the two other ACs in the nursery were portable. PTI

The death toll in the massive flash floods in Nepal on Thursday rose to 270, as authorities in Nepal race against time to find thousands of missing people, including 288 Indian tourists, in one of the country's worst disasters in recent years.

The flash floods on Wednesday wreaked havoc across three districts in Nepal.

Nepal Police on Thursday said that the death toll rose to 270 in the flash floods on the Bhotekoshi River after 93 more bodies were recovered.

The bodies recovered so far include 108 in Chitwan, 62 in Nawalparasi East, 27 in Dhading, 20 in Gorkha, 17 in Rasuwa, 15 in Nawalparasi West, 12 in Nuwakot, and nine in Tanahun, according to Nepal Police spokesperson Abi Narayan Kafle.

Kafle further said that, over 800 stranded people, including those injured, have been rescued from the affected areas. PTI