The Biden administration said Monday that Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely killed by unintentional Israeli fire, but the results of the ballistics test of the bullet removed from her body were inconclusive.
The big picture: The results of the ballistics test could have a negative effect on President Biden’s planned visit to the West Bank on July 15. The Palestinian Authority agreed to give the bullet to the U.S. expecting that the test would conclude Abu Akleh was shot by Israeli soldiers.
At least three people were killed and several others injured in a shooting at a Copenhagen shopping mall Sunday, Danish police said.
State of play: Police arrested a 22-year-old Danish man in connection with the shooting at Field’s mall. "Our preliminary investigation continues to indicate that the perpetrator acted on his own," police inspector Søren Thomassen said in a statement.
Russian forces on Sunday captured Lysychansk, the last city in the Luhansk region of the Donbas that was still under Ukrainian control.
Driving the news: Ukraine's Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security confirmed the news in a tweet later Sunday, noting that the armed force's General Staff had announced that "after heavy fighting" Ukraine's military forces had been forced to retreat from the city.
Colombia's outgoing President Iván Duque has announced that the country became the first in the Western Hemisphere to make 30% of its ocean territory a protected area, banning fishing and oil exploration.
Why it matters: Ocean degradation caused by overfishing, coral reef bleaching, pollution and other factors, along with rising sea levels and temperatures caused by climate change, increases the likelihood of death, flooding and a loss of food sources, scientists say.
