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Hong Kongers flock to buy last edition of Apple Daily

The closure of the popular tabloid, which mixes pro-democracy views with celebrity gossip and investigations of those in power, marks the end of an era for media freedom in the Chinese-ruled city, critics say."Thank you to all readers, subscribers, ad clients and Hong Kongers for 26 years of immense love and support. Here we say goodbye, take care of yourselves," the paper said in an online article.Hundreds of supporters gathered outside Apple Daily's building on Wednesday night to show support, sometimes in heavy rain, and waved smartphone lights. Journalists came out onto the balcony and responded with their own phones.The last front page carried a photograph of a member of staff waving at supporters, with the headline "Hong Kongers bid a painful farewell in the rain."A Reuters reporter present in the Apple Daily newsroom saw dozens of journalists break into applause once the final edition was sent to press, and some in tears.Reporter Alvin Chan went outside to distribute free copies to the supporters, saying: "I hope everyone can ... continue to believe in our values."The paper, whose online version will also stop updating, said it was printing a million copies of its last edition - more than 10 times its normal print run.Shortly after midnight, some news stands waiting for delivery already had hundreds of people queueing.

Britney Spears Describes 'Abusive' Conservatorship During Hearing in Los Angeles

Fans and members of the so-called #FreeBritney movement gathered outside the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles on June 23 as Britney Spears spoke out against her conservatorship.“I’ve been in denial. I’ve been in shock. I am traumatized,” Spears said, in a rare public testimony. Spears told the judge during the 23-minute address, “I just want my life back.”Jamie P. Spears was granted control over his daughter’s personal and financial affairs in a court-ordered conservatorship in 2008, following a number of widely reported incidents, including Spears shaving her head and driving with her infant son on her lap.Footage captured by Jolene Latimer shows a large crowd outside the courthouse, many holding #FreeBritney signs. Credit: Jolene Latimer via Storyful

FDA to add heart risk warning to mRNA vaccines

The FDA on Wednesday said it will add a warning about rare cases of heart inflammation in teens and young adults to fact sheets for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines – but that the benefits greatly outweigh the risks - and are still recommending the vaccine for all Americans over 12 years old.CDC advisory groups found the risk of the heart condition in adolescents and young adults is likely linked to the mRNA vaccines… And that the risk is notably higher after the second dose and in males.Doctors and hospitals have been warned by the CDC to watch for symptoms of myocarditis or pericarditis, and the FDA warning will further raise awareness.But in a Wednesday meeting, advisors said the benefits of the mRNA vaccines appeared to clearly outweigh the risk.In a separate report, the CDC said that the patients with heart inflammation following vaccination generally recover from the symptoms and do well.The cases are extremely rare. Data from the CDC suggests heart inflammation is seen at a rate of about 13 cases per million in the three weeks after the second shot in 12- to 39-year-olds. HHS - along with leading U.S. doctors groups and public health officials - issued a statement urging all eligible Americans to still get vaccinated.

Soccer Fans Wave Pride Flags After UEFA Refuses to Illuminate Munich Stadium With Rainbow Colors

The UEFA refused the mayor of Munich’s request to light up Allianz Arena with pride colors for Germany’s match against Hungary on June 23, with supporters at the stadium waving Pride flags in opposition.Footage captured by Daloha Rodriguez-Molina shows a gathering of people holding Pride flags and other displays outside Allianz Arena.Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter of Munich had lobbied the UEFA to light up the stadium in rainbow colors in order to “send a widely visible signal for our common understanding of values,” according to local news reports, as well as oppose Hungary’s newly passed law forbidding sharing LGBT content with minors.After Wednesday’s game, the German soccer team had qualified for the European Championship round of 16, while the Hungarian team was out, the UEFA said. Credit: Daloha Rodriguez-Molina/@darokun via Storyful

Nasdaq logs second straight closing high

Tech stocks once again powered Wall Street on Wednesday, driving the Nasdaq to its second consecutive record closing high, but the buying didn't spill over to the broader market.The Dow was down 71 points. The S&P 500 dipped into the close. The Nasdaq gained 18 points.Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer, Independent Advisor Alliance says the market is still in a tug-of war between interest rate and inflation outlook expectations."Right now, it seems like we're in a trading range. I think, as people trying to decide is inflation transitory or is it something that's a little bit more persistent, that's really what's driving the push and pull. And you're seeing interest rates move slightly higher and lower and therefore cyclicals versus growth maybe slightly higher and lower. And I think that explains a lot of the market action today."Microsoft is one of the so-called growth stocks that was a standout Wednesday. The tech giant is poised to close with a $2 trillion market cap for the first time.Other market movers included vaccine makers. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it will add a warning about rare cases of heart inflammation in adolescents and young adults to fact sheets for the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine as well as the Moderna vaccine, but added the benefits of the shots still appeared to clearly outweigh the risks. Shares of Moderna fell more than 4 percent. BioNTech lost nearly 3 percent. Pfizer was down more than 1 percent.On the economic front, sales of new homes slumped to a one-year low in May. Sales have fallen two straight months, hampered by high price tags and costly lumber prices. The median sales price for a new home soared 18.1 percent from a year ago to more than $374,000.And a measure of activity in the factory sector jumped to a record high this month, according to a preliminary private survey. Manufacturers are still struggling with supply shortages, however. The strength coming from factory floors is bolstering expectations that second-quarter economic growth could be in the double digits.

Hoover Dam's Lake Mead at historic low water level

These white marks serve as a shocking signal.Lake Mead has sunk to its lowest ever level, underscoring the gravity of the extreme drought across the U.S. West.The reservoir created by Hoover Dam is crucial to the water supply of 25 million people including those in Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Tucson and Las Vegas.Here are some facts about it.{Hoover Dam reservoir: Explained} The Hoover Dam reservoir is an engineering marvel that symbolized the American ascendance of the 20th century.It was formed in the 1930s from the damming of the Colorado River at the Nevada-Arizona border.As of June 9th, the lake surface has fallen to just over 1,000 feet (on screen 1,071 feet) above sea leveldipping below the previous record low in July 2016.It has fallen 140 feet since 2000 -that's nearly the height of the Statue of Liberty from torch to base,exposing a bathtub ring of bleached-white embankments.Bruce Nelson is the director of operations of Las Vegas Boat Harbor and Lake Mead Marina. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRUCE NELSON, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS LAS VEGAS BOAT HARBOR AND LAKE MEAD MARINA, SAYING:"Here at Lake Mead, we're experiencing obviously low, low water levels that we haven't experienced since the dam was built. It's been this level before but it's when the water was rising. We've been close to this level last like five or six years ago, but we're going to a new historic low."The drought that has brought Lake Mead low has gripped the U.S. West.Farmers are abandoning crops,Nevada has introduced lawn watering restrictions in the Las Vegas area,and the governor of Utah is literally asking people to pray for rain.Firefighters are facing worsening conditions this summer,after nearly 10,000 fires in California alone during the last wildfire season burned 4.2 million acres of land.The Bureau of Reclamation, which manages water resources in the Western states, is likely to declare Lake Mead's most extreme shortage condition for the first time ever.That would cut water supplies to Arizona, Nevada and Mexico, says the Bureau of Reclamation spokesperson Patti Aaron.(SOUNDBITE) (English) PATTI AARON, SPOKESPERSON THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION LOWER COLORADO REGION, SAYING:"Lake Mead and Hoover Dam serve about twenty-five million people in the lower basin. We have a decrease of about twenty five percent of our capacity in producing power because of the lower lake levels."While droughts are a recurring natural hazard,they've been made worse recently by an accumulation of extremely dry years for most of this century. Scientists say human-influenced climate change has exacerbated the situation.

Britney Spears Tells Atlantic City Audience She Has 102 Degree Fever During 2018 Concert (FILE)

A 2018 video of Britney Spears saying she had a 102 F fever during a show in Atlantic City has gone viral as Spears is scheduled to testify via Zoom in a Los Angeles court proceeding to address her father’s conservatorship of her finances and career.Footage captured by Zachary Gordon, who said he took it during Spears’s 2018 Piece of Me tour, shows Spears onstage. According to the New York Times, the footage echoes complaints Spears made about her performance obligations under the court-appointed conservatorship of her father, James P Spears.“I’m about to pass out, I’m sick,” Britney Spears says in the video. “I have actually an 102 degree fever right now.”Spears planned to appear in court to address her father’s conservatorship on June 23, with the media reporting the singer’s opposition to the conservatorship, which has seen Jamie Spears running her finances and career since 2008. Credit: Zachary Gordon via Storyful

Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Anacostia Freeway in Washington

A pedestrian bridge collapsed onto the Anacostia Freeway in northeast Washington on June 23, injuring at least six people, DC Fire and EMS said.Of the six injured, four were taken to a nearby hospital, and a hazmat unit was called in to handle diesel fuel leaking from a truck trapped under the fallen bridge, the fire department said. At least one other vehicle was hit by debris, officials said.Video and photos taken by DCFD’s Engine 27 show two vehicles under parts of the collapsed bridge. Credit: DCFD Engine 27 via Storyful

Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' on display restored by AI

This iconic artwork is complete for the first time in 300 yearsthanks to artificial intelligenceRembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands(SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR OF RIJKSMUSEUM, TACO DIBBITS, SAYING: "So about 300 years ago, "The Night Watch" was moved from its original place, the clubhouse of the civic guards, to the town hall, where it had to fit in between two doors. It didn't fit, so the movers took scissors and cut on all sides strips off. The largest strip was about 60 centimetres, so quite a bit. And we knew this, that they were cut off, because we have a copy from the 17th century that still shows the entire composition. It's a small copy though, and on the basis of this copy and a very detailed photograph that we took of "The Night Watch", we threw artificial intelligence towards a computer to reconstruct these missing pieces."Restorers and computer scientists recreated the stripsbased on a copy of the artwork by another artist of the timeblended with Rembrandt’s own style(SOUNDBITE) (English) SENIOR SCIENTIST AT RIJKSMUSEUM, ROBERT ERDMANN, SAYING:"The computer even learns how to hallucinate cracks, because that's part of 'The Night Watch'. So, we don't really care about this, the middle part, because we already have 'The Night Watch' and that's definitely better than what the computer can imagine. But now we can use these parts on the left, right top and bottom where we don't know what the answer is and then combine the two. So, this is the final result. What you can see here is that the, if I show you, 'The Night Watch' currently ends here at the back of his helmet. So everything to the left of this is the reconstruction."

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Dozens of Cows Run Loose Through Los Angeles Area After Escaping Slaughterhouse

Dozens of cows ran through a California neighborhood on June 22 after escaping a slaughterhouse in Pico Rivera, about 10 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department warned of police activity in the area as they removed the cattle, joking on Twitter, “STEER CLEAR for a few more minutes please. We are in the process of mooo-ving the cows!”Daisy Laureano recorded this footage and originally posted it to Facebook. She told Storyful she lives in Pico Rivera near the slaughterhouse, and said she was in shock at the sight and the number of cows coming down the street.“My daughter handed me the phone and said, ‘Mom, record this,’ so I did,” Laureano said. “I was scared for the cows and for the people around.”One person was injured and taken to the hospital, deputies told local news outlets.“I shot this video, then parked my car in my driveway. This happened a skip and jump away,” Laureano said. “Helicopters and police were around the neighborhood until almost midnight.”Officials told local news outlets 40 cows escaped, 38 have been captured, one was fatally shot, and one had not yet been located at the time of writing. Credit: Daisy Laureano via Storyful

Austin backs changes to military sex assault cases

GENERAL AUSTIN: “I fully support removing the prosecution of sexual assaults and other related crimes from the military's chain of command.” In a major break from his predecessors, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday said he supported changing how the military prosecutes sexual assault and related crimes, saying these cases should be removed from the chain of command.GENERAL AUSTIN: “As you know, my first directive as secretary of defense issued on my first full day in office was to service leadership about sexual assault…We are prepared to work with Congress to amend the uniform code of justice in this regard…We must treat this as a leadership issue as it is.” Advocates and lawmakers have been calling for years for the military commanders to be taken out of the decision-making process when it comes to prosecuting sexual assault cases, many of which are never even reported. SEN. GILLIBRAND: “We have zero tolerance for sexual assault.”U.S. lawmakers – like Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – earlier on Wednesday welcomed Austin’s unprecedented support and said they would press ahead with efforts to change the law.A bi-partisan bill introduced and named for Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen, who was murdered after reporting sexual harassment, would shift prosecution of these cases from the chain of command and make it the responsibility of trained military prosecutors.SEN. GILLIBRAND: “Today's the first time we have a secretary of defense who agrees sexual assault should be taken out of the chain of command. That's a big deal, because it’s a recognition that the chain of command is not inviolate. It is not the most important thing. What’s the most important thing is that the men and women of the armed forces have a criminal justice system that is worthy of the sacrifice they make every day in serving our country. That is our responsibility.”Guillen was based at Fort Hood, Texas and was 20 when she was bludgeoned to death. Her body was found mutilated and buried in a shallow grave.In December, an investigative panel looking into violent crimes and abuse at the largest active-duty armored post in the U.S., said it had found a command structure that was "permissive" of sexual assaults.Some senior military officials have stopped short of endorsing the move, arguing that preserving commanders' authority over prosecutions is vital to maintaining discipline.

Hundreds Line Up to Buy Apple Daily's Last Edition in Hong Kong's Mong Kok District

Long lines were seen in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district during the early hours of Thursday, June 24, as people gathered to purchase the last edition of Apple Daily after the pro-democracy newspaper announced its closure a day prior.Apple Daily said it had decided “to cease operation immediately after midnight” for its staff members’ safety, the BBC reported.On June 17, police raided Apple Daily’s offices and arrested five directors under a national security law. According to Apple Daily, the homes of staff members were also raided.This footage recorded by Galileo Cheng shows lines of Apple Daily readers wrapping around multiple blocks near Ladies Market in Mong Kok. Credit: Galileo Cheng via Storyful

Polish zoo welcomes second bongo antelope this year

The antelope, born on June 15, is a half-sister of mountain bongo Molly, born at the zoo in April. The two youngsters share a father, named Franek, but have a different mother.The antelope sisters have not met yet but have seen each other through a metal fence separating their enclosures, Warsaw Zoo staff told Reuters.The zoo proposed four names for the baby mountain bongo, each starting with the letter M, and asked the public to vote for their favourite one on social media.Mountain bongos, the largest among African forest antelopes, are a critically endangered species with only about 70-80 adults left in the wild, according to the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species.The animals are nocturnal and have a striking appearance due to their long horns and their reddish-brown coat offset with white or yellow markings in the form of thin vertical lines.

Dolphins Stampede Alongside California Whale Watching Boat

Tourists aboard a whale-watching vessel off the coast of Newport Beach, California, were delighted when a “stampede” of common dolphins traveled at speed alongside their boat.Footage of the event was taken by Jessica Roame, a naturalist and marine science educator at Newport Whales.Roame told Storyful that the moment was captured on June 18, and that the pod consisted of what she believed to be “around 400 common dolphins stampeding.” Credit: Jessica Roame via Storyful

This Hungarian software can ‘crack cancer’s code’

This Hungarian software can ‘crack cancer’s code’…using artificial intelligence.Oncompass CEO Istvan Petak says the technology can find the right targeted therapy for cancer patients based on the individual molecular profile of their tumor.To date, oncology research has identified roughly 6 million gene mutations that can cause cells to become cancers.Doctors also have access to databases to pinpoint which drugs target specific mutations, as well as molecular diagnostic tests.What the Oncompass tool does is combine all of that information.It then creates a logical order of treatment options.''But what we can show is not just simply that we can accelerate the decision, we can improve decisions significantly, which opens a new chapter in oncology. And I think in medicine we call it a digital age of medicine, the digital age of oncology."The Oncompass software has already been used to help treat more than 10,000 patients in several European Union countries… including Katalin Bernath.She was diagnosed with lung and brain cancer in 2012 and was told she had only three months to live.''I told (my first oncologist) that he should talk to me about some alternative treatments or a more consoling solution. But all he said was that he could not offer anything because I must understand how dangerous tumours are and how fast they spread, and that I would end up at that hospital wearing diapers and that I would die there. Then, I said I didn’t want that and I slammed the door. I went to seek another oncologist."Bernath’s new oncologist got in touch with Oncompass in 2013.A biopsy of her primary tumour was found to have genetic mutations for which a specific therapy was most likely to be effective.She responded well to the treatment and her tumours all but disappeared….and today she is still symptom-free.

UK PM Johnson marks 5 years since Brexit vote

Britain's departure from the bloc, completed in December, ended the freedom of movement for Britons and EU citizens in each other's countries. Johnson, who was a figurehead of the successful campaign for Britain's departure from the European Union, said over 5.6 million EU citizens had applied for the government's settlement scheme and urged others to do so before the deadline on June 30.In the June 23, 2016, referendum, 17.4 million voters, or 52%, backed Brexit while 16.1 million, or 48%, backed staying in the bloc. England and Wales voted out but Scotland and Northern Ireland voted in.The referendum revealed a United Kingdom polarized about much more than the European Union, and fuelled soul searching about everything from secession and immigration to capitalism, the legacy of empire, and what it now means to be British.

Meet one of Morocco's meteorite hunters

Meet one of Morocco's meteorite hunterswho spends months roaming sand dunes for samplesLocation: Tamri, Agadir(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) METEORITE HUNTER, ALI LAMGHARI, SAYING:"As nomads we scan the area for a month, we sometimes find them and sometimes we don't. When we find a meteorite we complete a technical card for it, record the GPS coordinates of the place where it was found and take a picture of it at the exact spot where we found it."Meteorites are prevalent in Moroccoand help expand scientific research(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AT IBN ZOHR UNIVERSITY AND FOUNDER OF THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF METEORITES, ABDERRAHMANE IBHI, SAYING:"More than 50% of the meteorites that are in international museums or international laboratories were found in Morocco. They are very important meteorites that give great scientific information. On this basis, we decided to establish this museum in 2016 and it has three roles, the first is scientific research, we are trying to develop scientific research at Ibn Zohr University and we have doctors who obtained their doctorate in scientific research."

Warren Buffett resigns as Gates Foundation trustee

Billionaire Warren Buffett resigned on Wednesday as a trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The announcement comes one month after the couple who co-founded the foundation said they had filed for divorce. In a statement, Buffett did not state why he was leaving the board at this time, only that he has been inactive in his role, quote: "For years I have been a trustee – an inactive trustee at that – of only one recipient of my funds, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I am now resigning from that post, just as I have done at all corporate boards other than Berkshire's." Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, co-founders of the foundation, filed for divorce in May after 27 years of marriage but have pledged to continue their philanthropic work together. The 21-year-old foundation has become one of the most powerful and influential forces in global public health, spending more than $50 billion over the past two decades to bring a business approach to combating poverty and disease. Buffett also said in the statement that he delivered another $4.1 billion worth of his Berkshire Hathaway stock to philanthropy, saying he was halfway toward reaching his goal of giving away about 99% of his net worth. Last year, he reported donating more than $2 billion worth of his Berkshire stock to the Gates Foundation. Buffett and Gates pioneered “The Giving Pledge” campaign that urges billionaires to donate at least half of their fortunes to charity.

Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly to step down

Gary Kelly, the long-time CEO of Southwest Airlines, is stepping down as chief executive, the company announced on Wednesday.He's handing over the day-to-day reins to company insider Robert Jordan beginning in February.Kelly, now 66 years old, won't be far. He's staying on as executive chairman of the board.Southwest has done quite well under Kelly's long leadership.He spearheaded several initiatives, including the acquisition of AirTran Airways, the launch of international destinations for the first time in Southwest's history, and the introduction of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 into the airline's fleet. Kelly has stuck by the plane even after two deadly crashes at other airlines. Last year, he agreed to take a 10 percent pay cut in order to help prevent the first round of layoffs in Southwest's 50-year history as the airline hemorrhaged during the health crisis. He was part of the group of airlines CEOs who went to the Trump White House to solicit the first $50 billion round of government aid.Lately, he's been overseeing the air carrier's recovery. Southwest investors have benefitted under his watch. The stock has more than tripled in value during Kelly's tenure.

U.S. factory activity rises to record high in June

U.S. factories are humming. Manufacturing activity climbed to a record high in June even as companies struggle to secure raw materials and workers.IHS Markit reported Wednesday its flash manufacturing PMI rose to 62.6 this month from 62.1 in May.That bodes well for economists’ expectations calling for double-digit growth in the second quarter. Demand for goods remains robust even as the economy reopens.But that strong demand is feeding into higher inflation as raw materials and finished products prices skyrocket and uncompleted work piles up.Activity is moderating for businesses in the services sector, which also worries about rising inflation and the difficulty of securing qualified workers. The flash services sector PMI dropped in June. But it was still the second highest on record.

Moscow meets British attache over warship incident

Britain rejected Russia's account of the incident, saying it believed any shots fired were a pre-announced Russian "gunnery exercise," and that no bombs had been dropped. But it confirmed that its destroyer, HMS Defender, had sailed through what it described as waters belonging to Ukraine.The ship was "conducting an innocent passage through Ukrainian territorial waters in accordance with international law," Britain's Ministry of Defense said in a statement.Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said: "It's incorrect to say either that it was fired upon or that the ship was in Russian waters."Military experts said that whether or not the details of the Russian or British accounts were accurate, the incident appeared to represent an escalation in confrontation between the West and Russia over disputed sea lanes.

Dozens killed in Tigray air strike: medical official

At a hospital in Tigray's capital Mekelle, a two-year-old girl is being treated for her injuries.She and her father were injured, her mother says, in an airstrike on their town in the northern Ethiopian region.She said the bomb hit a market at about 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday (June 22) in Togoga.A medical official says 43 people died, citing witnesses and first responders.Ethiopian military spokesman Colonel Getnet Adane did not confirm or deny the incident. He said air strikes were a common military tactic and the force does not target civilians.Getnet also denied claims from three other health workers that the Ethiopian military was blocking ambulances from reaching the scene.Residents in Tigray say new fighting has flared between the military and Tigray People's Liberation Front.On Tuesday a senior official in Tigray's interim administration, which was appointed by the federal government, said forces loyal to the TPLF has entered several towns - though this was dismissed as "fabrications" by Getnet.The escalation of violence comes as Ethiopians have been voting in what Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has billed as the country's first attempt at free and fair elections.But the violence has underscored a messy reality in the country. Authorities could not hold polls on Monday (June 21) in four of Ethiopia's 10 regions, according to the election board - due to the war in Tigray, violence and logistical problems.One of those regions, Sidama, voted late on Tuesday.There were no reports of major violence in parts of the country that did vote.The opposition has also alleged some irregularities though on Wednesday (June 23) the African Union's election observer mission said the election and its processes had been, overall, conducted in an "orderly peaceful and credible manner."

Paris' La Samaritaine reopens after 16 years

The 150-year-old store with art deco furnishings and artwork had to shut its doors in 2005 as its original glass flooring was not sufficiently fire-resistant.Luxury goods group LVMH is behind the revamped La Samaritaine, designed to help it grab a greater slice of tourist spending once pandemic travel curbs are eased.After a seven-year makeover, the historic store will rival the likes of Galeries Lafayette, housing a hotel, restaurants and shops. LVMH Chairman Bernard Arnault said they also want to dedicate a part of the building to public housing.Its reopening, originally scheduled for last year, was delayed by the global health crisis.

Did Russia fire 'warning shots' at a UK navy ship?

There are conflicting reports over an incident involving Russian military forces and a British naval destroyer in the Black Sea on Tuesday (June 23).Interfax news agency in Russia, quoting its defense ministry, says that a Russian ship fired warning shots at HMS Defender after it crossed into waters claimed by Russia, near Crimea and Russia's local navy headquarters. The incident is even said to have involved a Russian military jet dropping bombs in the path of the British vessel, which left afterwards.But the British government is telling a very different series of events.Its defense ministry says that no warning shots were fired, there was no jet dropping bombs in the ship's path, and says the Russians had given prior warning to ships in the area that it was just doing weapons training that day.HMS Defender was passing through on the way to Georgia, the UK says, and some Russian vessels did shadow it... which is normal.Ukraine's foreign minister says the incident was evidence of Russia's, quote, "aggressive and provocative actions" in the area.