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00:01More European countries are evacuating their citizens from Iran and Israel as the conflict enters its seventh day.
00:11Russia's summer offensive continues in Ukraine, with fatal strikes in Odessa and Kharkiv overnight.
00:21More countries are evacuating their nationals from Israel and Iran.
00:26The now week-long conflict has blocked much of the region's airspace, leaving people unable to leave the Middle East.
00:36On Thursday, a repatriation flight transported nearly 70 people from Israel to Portugal.
00:43Around 50 of them were Portuguese nationals.
00:47The Portuguese government this week also announced the temporary closure of its embassy in Tehran.
00:53In Serbia, 38 people arrived safely in Belgrade last night, most of whom were Serbian citizens.
01:01The country's prime minister met with the Egyptian foreign minister in Cairo on Thursday
01:06to discuss the emergency evacuation of more than 2,500 Serbian nationals stranded in Israel.
01:12In Romania, over 100 people arrived in the capital Bucharest on Friday on military transport planes from the Middle East.
01:23The Romanian Ministry of Defence sent planes after Romanian nationals requested assistance to leave the conflict zone,
01:30but did not specify which country they departed from.
01:37Russia's summer offensive continued overnight, striking the Black Sea port city of Odessa and the northeastern city of Kharkiv, according to local officials.
01:53In Odessa, a four-storey building was overtaken by flames as Russian drones sparked widespread fires in residential areas.
02:04At least one person has died and 14 others have been injured, including emergency workers trying to rescue civilians after a structure collapsed,
02:13say Ukrainian authorities.
02:18In Kharkiv, civilian infrastructure was also hit injuring four people, two of whom were children.
02:25Further four people were injured in a second Russian strike on Friday.
02:31Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched a total of 80 Shahid and decoy drones overnight, 70 of which were intercepted.
02:37President Vladimir Zelensky has called for more pressure to be put on Russia to agree to a ceasefire following this week's attack on Kyiv,
02:47in which 28 people were killed and more than 140 injured.
02:52It was the deadliest assault on the capital this year.
02:55A 24-hour national strike in Italy has disrupted large parts of the public transport system throughout the country.
03:10The strike, which began on Thursday night, spanned across the rail, air and local public transport sectors, with many trains, buses and flights cancelled.
03:18Organized by multiple grassroots organizations, the unions are asking for less military spending to allocate more public funding for healthcare, education, safety and public transport.
03:31They're also demanding higher wages and a reduction of working hours for workers.
03:36By Friday afternoon, some services started running more regularly again, including Rome and Milan's metro service.
03:42A US appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump can maintain control of the military in California.
03:56The decision halts a ruling from a lower court judge who found the president acted illegally in doing so.
04:02A three-judge panel unanimously concluded that Trump probably acted within his authority after deploying National Guard troops in LA to camp protests sparked by immigration raids.
04:17It's said the government had presented enough evidence to show it had a defensible rationale for doing so, citing violent acts by protesters.
04:29Trump's decision was strongly opposed by the state's governor and prompted a national debate about the use of military on US soil.
