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MOSCOW, July 1. /TASS/: At least thirty-four people have died and sixty-eight have been injured on Monday in an explosion that rocked the Afghan capital, Kabul, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Earlier, Al-Jazeera broadcaster reported ten people dead, citing a source in the Afghan Foreign Ministry.

MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/: Production of S-500 surface-to-air missile systems begins in Russia. These systems will soon enter operational service in the Russian army, CEO of Russia’s Rostec state-run hi-tech corporation Sergei Chemezov said on Sunday.

BRATSK /Irkutsk Region/, June 30. /TASS/: The damages inflicted on the agriculture in the flood-affected areas of the Russian region of Irkutsk amount approximately to 300 million rubles ($4.740 million), Deputy Minister of Agriculture Maxim Uvaidov said.

"The overall damage is evaluated to be around 300 million rubles ($4.740 million - TASS)," he told the meeting convened by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the flood situation in the Irkutsk Region.

IRKUTSK, June 29. /TASS/: Over 1,000 residential houses were affected by floods in the town of Tulun in the Irkutsk region in Russia's eastern Siberia, the town's emergencies service told TASS on Saturday.

Earlier reports said that over 870 residential houses were affected, along with over 1,170 residents.

"Over 1,000 houses," the emergencies service said in a response to a question on how many houses were affected by the floods.

The service added that evacuation of people from the affected area continues.

MOSCOW, June 28. /TASS/: Russian State Duma member Sergey Gavrilov has said that by banning him from entering Georgia, the country's Interior Ministry de facto supported extremists and their anti-Russian statements.

27 June 2019; MEMO: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister, Abdullah Bin Zayed, yesterday said that his country could not hold any country responsible for the recent attacks on four oil tankers because of “insufficient information”.

Bin Zayed said during a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in Russian capital Moscow that, in order to hold any country responsible, the evidence must be “clear, precise, scientific and convincing for the international community”.

MOSCOW, June 26. /TASS/: Russian air defense systems have destroyed two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which were used by militants to try to attack the Hmeymim air base, chief of the Russian Center for reconciliation of the conflicting sides in Syria Alexey Bakin said on Wednesday.

KUBINKA, June 27. /TASS/: Russia has offered to sell another batch of Su-35 fighter jets to China, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation told TASS on the sidelines of the "Army-2019" forum.

"We are expecting a response from China on our offer to purchase modern weapons and military equipment manufactured in Russia, including additional batches of Su-35 fighter jets," the service said.

China was the first country to purchase Russia's Su-35 fighter jets. The contract on the purchase of 24 fighter jets worth around $2.5 bln was signed in 2015.

MOSCOW, June 26. /TASS/: Russia will deliver S-400 Triumf missile defense systems to Turkey by the end of this year, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation said on Wednesday.

"We plan to fulfill our commitments on delivering equipment and training specialists by the end of this year," the service said.

The contract is being fulfilled in accordance with the timeframe coordinated by the sides, the service added. "As Turkish officials repeatedly stated, the equipment can be delivered as early as next month," the service noted.

MOSCOW, June 27. /TASS: Twenty-two people were injured when an An-24 plane made an emergency landing in Russia's Buryatia region, local medical services told TASS on Thursday.

"Twenty-two people were injured, 15 of them received medical assistance on the site, while seven other people were hospitalized," medical services said.

Two crewmembers died during the emergency landing. There were 46 people on board, including four crewmembers.