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SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians are voting in a snap poll on Sunday after a previous election in April produced a fragmented parliament that failed to form a viable coalition government.

Latest opinion polls suggest that the rerun could produce similar results but also a further drop in support for former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov’s GERB party, after the current caretaker government made public allegations of widespread corruption during his rule.

MOSCOW, July 10. /TASS/: The Admiral Golovko, the Russian Navy’s third Admiral Gorshkov-class frigate (Russian designation Project 22350), will become the first carrier of Tsirkon hypersonic missiles, a defense industry source told TASS on Saturday.

"It is planned that Admiral Golovko will become the first standard carrier of Tsirkons," the source said.

MOSCOW, July 10. /TASS/: The Afghan government’s loss of popular support is the reason for the current rise of the Taliban movement (outlawed in Russia), Associate Professor at Moscow State University’s Institute for Asian and African Studies Vladislav Zaitsev told TASS.

MOSCOW, July 10. /TASS/: Russia’s Nauka multifunctional laboratory module, which is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in July, has been filled up with fuel, Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said on Saturday.

"The Nauka MLM [multifunctional laboratory module - TASS] has been filled with rocket fuel components. There are no remarks," Rogozin wrote on his Telegram channel.

MOSCOW, July 10. /TASS/: Russia recorded 752 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, up from 726 the day before, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Saturday. The total death toll has climbed to 142,253.

According to data from the crisis center, 2.47% of coronavirus patients have died in Russia.

In particular, 102 fatalities were reported in St. Petersburg in the past day, 22 in the Krasnodar region and 21 in the Rostov region. The Irkutsk and Nizhny Novgorod regions recorded 28 coronavirus deaths each.

MOSCOW, July 10. /TASS/: Governor of Russia’s Chelyabinsk region Alexei Teksler has briefed President Vladimir Putin on the wildfire situation in the region, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday.

STOCKHOLM, July 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sweden and Estonia opened a fresh investigation into the 1994 sinking of the ferry MS Estonia in the Baltic Sea and the loss of 852 lives, accident authorities said.

Only 137 people survived the disaster of the Tallinn to Stockholm ferry which went down in the early hours of Sept 28, 1994.

Finland joined both countries in agreeing in 1995 to designate the wreck a final resting place and make it illegal to disturb the site.

MOSCOW, July 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia said its airlines can resume charter flights to Egyptian resorts, which had been banned for more than five years after the suspected bombing of a Russian airliner in which 224 people died.

President Vladimir Putin cancelled his order suspending the flights, according to a document on the government information site that did not give details of the decision.

All Russian flights to Egypt were banned after the Oct. 31, 2015, explosion of a St. Petersburg-bound airliner soon after takeoff from Sharm El Sheikh.

10 July 2021; MEMO: The Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Friday confirmed the first Sudanese official to stand trial over "war crimes".

According to Sudan News Agency, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II issued a unanimous decision confirming all 31 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Ali Kushayb, and committed him to trial before a trial chamber.

BRUSSELS, July 10 (Reuters) - The European Union has delivered enough coronavirus vaccine doses to member states to reach a target to fully vaccinate at least 70% of adults in the bloc, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement on Saturday.

Von der Leyen, who had tweeted on May 9 that the EU was on track to meet its goal of inoculating 70% of adults by summer, urged EU countries to increase vaccinations and said about 500 million doses would be distributed across the union by Sunday.