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An Israeli airstrike hits a UNRWA school in Gaza, Putin says Russia could deploy missiles in striking distance of the West, and world leaders commemorate D-Day's 80th anniversary.

Plus, how India conducted its mammoth general election, in graphics.

By Edson Caldas

Today's Top News

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a UNRWA school sheltering displaced people. June 6, 2024. REUTERS/Doaa Rouqa

MIDDLE EAST

Israel hit a Gaza school in an airstrike that it said targeted and killed Hamas fighters inside, while a Hamas official said 40 people including women and children were killed as they sheltered. The school, run by the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency, may have been hit several times.
Hamas has seen about half its forces wiped out in eight months of war and is relying on hit-and-run insurgent tactics to frustrate Israel's attempts to take control of Gaza, US and Israeli officials told Reuters. Follow the latest.

UNITED STATES

Prosecutors are expected to rest their case against President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, after presenting evidence aimed at showing that he lied about his drug use to illegally buy a gun in 2018.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will attend a fundraiser hosted by two tech venture capitalists in San Francisco, a high-dollar event expected to draw Silicon Valley investors turned off by the Biden administration's policies. For more on the US election, sign up to our On the Campaign Trail newsletter.

IN OTHER NEWS

Veterans and world leaders are meeting in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, when more than 150,000 Allied soldiers arrived in France by sea and air to drive out the forces of Nazi Germany. We have key facts about D-Day and live updates from the commemorations here.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he could deploy conventional missiles within striking distance of the United States and its European allies if they allowed Ukraine to strike deeper into Russia with long-range Western weapons. Follow the latest on the war in Ukraine.
As Kenyan troops prepare to deploy to Haiti to help tackle a crisis fueled by gang violence, Aaron Ross joins the Reuters World News podcast from Nairobi with insights on the evangelical advisers President William Ruto turned to for guidance on this mission.

Business & Markets

The European Central Bank is all but certain to cut interest rates later today and acknowledge it has made progress in its battle against inflation, while also stressing the fight is not yet over. All 82 economists polled by Reuters expected the ECB to trim its deposit rate to 3.75% from a record 4.0%.
A rally that has propelled US equities to record highs increasingly rests on red-hot chipmaker Nvidia and a handful of other giants, reviving concerns that the market's performance has become tied to a cluster of stocks. On Wednesday, Nvidia became the world's second-most valuable company.
A new US crackdown on customs brokers handling billions of dollars in inexpensive online shopping orders from giants like China-linked Shein and Temu is likely to cause delivery delays and bottlenecks, industry experts said.
The Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk is facing the prospect of intensifying competition in the promising Chinese market where companies are developing at least 15 generic versions of its diabetes drug Ozempic and weight loss treatment Wegovy, clinical trial records showed.
SpaceX's giant Starship rocket is scheduled for a fourth test flight to space with a tricky primary objective: survive a blazingly hot re-entry through Earth's atmosphere. Meanwhile, Boeing's Starliner capsule is expected to dock with the International Space Station on its first trip to orbit carrying astronauts.

The world's largest election, in graphics

About 642 million voters cast their ballots in the staggered seven-phase polling over six weeks as part of India's mammoth general election, the largest in history. Poll workers had to reach the country's most remote corners to set up polling stations.

Our graphics team explains how.

And Finally...

Program to turns inmates into wildland firefighters. REUTERS/Matt Mills McKnight

The inmates of Washington state's prison system tramp through the forest, their yellow uniforms and helmets bright against the brown branches and green leaves. They are an elite group of firefighters who have been recruited from existing firefighting prison camps.

The aim? Teach the inmates the skills needed to help prevent forest fires - and in the process, give them an opportunity to start on a path to a new career.

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