The space vehicle has been successfully placed into its target orbit, the country’s Defense Ministry announced A Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying a military spacecraft was blasted off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the north of Russia on Saturday night, the nation’s Defense Ministry said.

Switzerland imported more than 14 tons of gold from Russia last month for processing, taking advantage of the fact that it was shipped through third countries, and thus did not violate Western sanctions, the latest data from the Swiss Federal Council has revealed.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has accused the Israeli military of attacking a peacekeeping patrol on Saturday, during a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas. The incident allegedly occurred at around midday, near the Lebanese village of Aytaroun, on the border with Israel and 125 kilometers from the Lebanese capital, Beirut. According to UNIFIL, it…