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Gunman kills 12, injures 3 others in shooting at bar in Mexico

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The Secretary of Citizen Safety in Irapuato reported that on Saturday, a gunman opened fire at a bar in central Mexico, killing 12 people and wounding three others.

According to a statement released by Mexican authorities, around 7:51 p.m., police received 9-1-1 calls reporting that shots had been fired at a bar in the Colonia 12 de Diciembre neighborhood.

According to the statement, "Security personnel moved to the scene after the report, where paramedics confirmed the death of six men and six women."

The motive for the shooting was not immediately clear, and authorities are still looking for the shooter or shooters. The Guanajuato State Attorney General's Office and Mexico's National Guard are assisting in the search.

Since taking office in 2018, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has struggled to reduce gangrelated violence in the country. In the town of San Miguel Totolapan in the southern state of Guerrero in Mexico, 20 people, including the mayor, were killed earlier this month by gunmen who are said to be members of the Tequileros drug cartel.

At a cockfighting pit in the town of Las Tinajas in the state of Michoacán—one of the country's most violent—in March, at least 19 people were shot dead and several others were wounded.

While siding with Swiss chocolate makers Lindt and Sprüngli in a lengthy trademark dispute, the discount grocery chain Lidl has been ordered by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland to destroy any chocolate bunnies it has in stock in the country.

In 2018, Lindt first went to court against Lidl, arguing that the gold-foil-wrapped chocolate bunnies of the grocery store violated the Swiss trademark of Lindt and could be mistaken for the company's own chocolate bunnies.

In 2021, the commercial court of Switzerland dismissed the case, but Lindt was allowed to appeal the decision by the federal court. The Federal Supreme Court stated in a statement on Thursday announcing its decision, "Lindt & Sprüngli's chocolate bunny wrapped in aluminum foil -- golden or another color -- enjoys trademark protection against Lidl's competing product."

Due to the risk of confusion, "Lidl can no longer sell its own rabbit," and the remaining copies must be destroyed.

The court concluded that Lindt's trademark protections "can be considered common knowledge" and that opinion polls it had filed showed the company had better established itself in the market.

"The shape of Lindt's rabbit evokes obvious associations in Lindl's rabbits."They cannot be distinguished in the public's mind," the court wrote in its decision.

"The destruction is proportionate, especially since it does not necessarily mean that the chocolate as such must be destroyed," the court wrote in granting Lindt's request for Lidl to "destroy" all of its remaining chocolate rabbits.

According to a statement that it provided to The New York Times, Lidl would not be required to dispose of any chocolate rabbits because they are a seasonal item that are not currently available.

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Zelensky claims Russian losses near 65,000 as explosions in Belgorod injure multiple people

As multiple people were injured by explosions on Sunday in Russia's Belgorod region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that Russia had lost nearly 65,000 troops.

Zelensky said in his Saturday night address, "So many Russian citizens gave their lives for the possibility of a few people in the Kremlin to ignore reality."

"And we can say that even 100,000 dead Russian citizens will not cause the Kremlin to think even a little bit, according to the way the Russian "burial operation" continues," Multiple injuries were reported following explosions on Sunday in the Russian region of Belgorod, which is located across the border from the Ukrainian province of Kharkiv, according to Russian officials.

In a Telegram statement, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia's Belgorod region, stated that a single family had reported three victims, two of whom had shrapnel wounds and were treated at a nearby hospital.At the scene, another injured woman received treatment.

"The cars, fences, and houses all sustained minor damage.Gladkov stated, "Emergency services are on site."The administration of the city of Belgorod is responsible for evaluating the damage, taking measurements of the windows, and beginning the restoration process.

In a second statement, Gladkov said that another victim, a grandfather, was injured and treated for a concussion.

Gladkov stated, "At the moment, damage has been recorded in more than 20 households."We will carry out additional testing on the houses that were in the epicenter of the explosion.

Gladkov stated that another man was reported to have stepped on a mine and lost his foot in the urban area of Shebekinsky.

"Dear people who live in the area!It is now dangerous in the Belgorod region's forests due to previous shelling.He asked, "Please do not visit forest belts in any border municipalities."

The explosions have not been discussed by Ukrainian officials, who have a policy of keeping quiet about what happens behind Russia's borders.

A day earlier, two gunmen carried out an attack on a military training ground in the Belgorod region, resulting in the deaths of 11 people and the injuries of 15 others.

It also comes after an explosion on a bridge connecting Russia and the Ukrainian territory of Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014 in preparation for the current war, resulted in the deaths of three people.

Russia "probably fired more than 80 cruise missiles into Ukraine" in a strike last week in retaliation for the attack on the Kerch Bridge, according to the British Defense Ministry, which has provided intelligence updates throughout the war.

The British Defense Ministry stated, "The Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported that more than half of the projectiles were shot down, but dozens struck Kyiv and other population centers, killing civilians and destroying civil infrastructure."

"Probably incapable of producing advanced munitions at the rate at which they are being expended is Russia's defense industry."