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Heavy rains and a rapid rise in temperatures causing a massive snowmelt continue to create "difficult" conditions in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan, with rivers bursting their banks amid forecasts that the worst may be yet to come.
Russian human rights group OVD-Info said on June 8 that its two websites had been blocked by the country's media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, without explanation.
Rescue teams are continuing their efforts to save thousands of people trapped by catastrophic flooding caused by the rupture of a major dam on the Dnieper River in southern Ukraine amid heightened dangers posed by continuing Russian shelling and land mines displaced by the floods.
EU governments should make preparations to integrate refugees from Ukraine permanently, according to the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on June 7 that it has started investigating the disappearance of the wife and teenage son of the North Korean Council Choi En Nam in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok.