President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that 10 people, all civilians, have been returned to Ukraine from captivity in Russia and its ally Belarus.Zelensky, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the group included a prominent member of Crimea's ethnic Tatar community, two eastern-rite Catholic priests and five people who had been captured in Belarus. There were also two civilians held from before Russia's 2022 invasion.

A New Mexico judge on Friday denied a request by actor Alec Baldwin to dismiss a manslaughter charge he faces for the 2021 fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the film set of the movie "Rust."In her ruling, the judge rejected arguments by Baldwin's lawyers in a hearing June 21 and Monday that the charge should be dismissed because the gun that fired the round that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was damaged during testing by the FBI following her death, preventing his lawyers from conducting their own testing.Baldwin is scheduled for a July trial.Hutchins was shot with a live round after Baldwin pointed a gun at her as she set up a camera on a film set near Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The US military said on Friday that it destroyed seven Houthi drones and one ground control station vehicle in Houthi-controlled Yemen.

After IDF soldiers discovered Hezbollah terrorists entering a military structure in the Houla area of southern Lebanon, the Israel Air Force attacked the building, the IDF reported on Saturday afternoon.The IAF also targeted another Hezbollah structure in southern Lebanon, the military stated, adding that an additional Hezbollah terrorist in the Houla area was eliminated.IDF strikes on Hezbollah terrorists in a military infrastructure in Lebanon. June 29, 2024. (Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)Earlier in the day, the Israeli military noted, the IDF identified two anti-tank missiles that had crossed over into Israeli territory from Lebanon before falling into the area of Misgav Am.No injuries resulted from the missile fire, and the IDF responded by striking the sources of the fire.