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 China said on Sunday that European medical device companies will be barred from selling to the Chinese government as a countermeasure for the European Union’s restrictions on the sale of similar products from China.
European companies will be excluded if the budget for procurement is above 45 million yuan ($6.28 million), according to a notice from the Finance Ministry on Sunday with the restrictions in place the same day....

Some 43 people, including 15 children, have been confirmed dead following flash floods in central Texas, authorities said, as rescuers continued a frantic search for campers, vacationers and residents who were still missing.
Officials said more than 850 people had been rescued, including some who were clinging to trees, after a sudden storm dumped up to 15 inches of rain in an area around the Guadalupe River, about 137km northwest of San Antonio....

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned Saturday Russia’s biggest drone and missile attack yet in the three-year war in Ukraine.
“The Secretary-General strongly condemns the latest series of large-scale drone and missile attacks by the Russian Federation,” Guterres said in a statement referring to the assault Friday and also calling for a full, immediate and unconditional ceasefire...

The Russian Investigative Committee has established that Nikolay Dzyaman, commander of Ukraine’s 138th anti-aircraft missile brigade, ordered the downing of the Il-76 plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners in 2024, the press service told TASS.
"The aircraft was shot down with an anti-aircraft missile from a Patriot air defense system. In cooperation with the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff, it was determined that these systems are in service with Ukraine’s 138th anti-aircraft missile brigade...