Wednesday 11th June 2025. Austria shooting. Greece MPs removed. Colombia explosions. Argentina Kirchner jail. Israel sanctions...
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Good morning, this is Send7, Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes. I'm Stephen Devincenzi, today is Wednesday the 11th of June 2025. Starting in Europe today, in Austria, 10 people were shot dead at a school yesterday in the worst ever school shooting in Austria's history.

Authorities have said that the attacker was a 21-year-old former student of the school and that he killed himself. The shooting took place in a secondary school in Grasse, which is the second largest city in Austria. Local media has reported that the shooter legally owned the two guns that he used and had acquired them recently.

In Austria, people over 21 can legally own guns with less restrictions than in most of Europe. Chancellor Christian Stocker has announced three days of national mourning. Russia launched a major drone attack against Ukraine's capital city Kyiv and the southern port city of Odessa yesterday morning. Three people were killed and many were injured.

Ukraine's culture minister, Mykola Turchitsky, said that Kyiv's St. Sophia Cathedral, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was damaged. In Odessa, a maternity hospital was hit.

In a speech in London on Monday, head of NATO Mark Rutte said that Ukraine was on an irreversible path to NATO membership and said that Russia could be ready to attack NATO within five years. In terms of ammunition, Russia produces in three months what the whole of NATO produces in a year.

and its defense industrial base is expected to roll out 1,500 tanks, 3,000 armored vehicles and 200 Iskander missiles this year alone. Russia could be ready to use military force against NATO within five years. In Greece, three far-right members of parliament have been dismissed because of electoral fraud

The court decision said that although Vasilis Stiggas was described as the party leader for the Spartans party, the true leader was Ilias Casidialis, who is in prison for directing a criminal organisation. In Malta, two men have been sentenced to life in prison for providing the car bomb which killed the journalist Daphne Caruana Galicia in 2017 and

Caruana Galicia was investigating corruption when she was assassinated near her home. Two men are serving 40-year sentences and one other is serving a 15-year sentence for their parts in the murder. Businessman Jürgen Fennig is accused of ordering the murder, however he is still awaiting trial. America's...

In Colombia, a series of bomb blasts left at least four people dead yesterday and many more injured. The bombs exploded in the southwestern city of Cali and at least three towns also in the southwest.

Local media says that the bombs were placed on vehicles and has suggested that they were planted by former members of the FARC rebel group, which signed a peace deal with the government in 2016. However, some members refused the peace deal. Argentina's Supreme Court has confirmed the guilty verdict of former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,

Kirchner was convicted in 2022 of corruption during her time as president from 2007 to 2015. Kirchner will serve six years in prison. However, another court will decide if she can serve the term in her house. She is also banned for life from holding political office.

In the United States, Health Secretary RFK Jr. has fired the advisory committee which recommends which vaccines people should take. RFK Jr. has a long history of vaccine scepticism, but said that this decision aimed to restore trust and

Head of Infectious Diseases at the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Sean O'Leary, said that this decision was a public health disaster and said that rather than restoring trust, this would increase mistrust in vaccines.

Africa In Sudan, the World Food Programme has said that they have been able to restart food distribution in the capital Khartoum after it was recaptured by Sudan's army from the paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces earlier this year.

The World Food Programme has also said that other parts of the country are still at risk of famine. In South Africa, snow has caused power cuts and traffic disruptions in the south and east. Asia. Two Israeli ministers have been sanctioned by the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway.

Israel's Security Minister Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will face travel bans and acid freezes. UK Foreign Secretary David Lamy said that Ben-Gvir and Smotrich were responsible for inciting violence and for denying Palestinians human rights, especially in their promotion of creating new Israeli settlements in the West Bank. These two individuals...

Ben-Gavir and Smotrich have been inciting violence against Palestinian people for months and months and months. They have been encouraging egregious abuses of human rights. Israel deported Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and three other activists yesterday after their boat was forced to arrive at an Israeli port in

Eight others refused to be deported and are still in Israeli detention. In Gaza, 19 people were killed yesterday when Israeli airstrikes hit an area where displaced people were sheltering, according to the Nasser Hospital.

And in South Korea, two members of the K-pop group BTS have left the military after completing their 18-month mandatory military service. About 200 fans greeted them as they left the military base, including some fans who said they had travelled from Turkey, Mexico and Brazil.

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