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NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says that alliance members must guarantee long-term weapon deliveries for Ukraine, as ministers prepared to discuss a proposal for a 100-billion-euro, five-year fund. Speaking in Brussels, where NATO foreign ministers are meeting to forge a support package by a July summit in Washington, Stoltenberg says "we must ensure reliable and predictable security assistance to Ukraine for the long haul." "We must ensure reliable and predictable security assistance to Ukraine for the long haul so that we rely less on the voluntary contributions and more on NATO commitments, less on short-term offers and more on multi-year pledges," Stoltenberg says as NATO foreign ministers met in Brussels. SOUNDBITE
Emergency services clear rubble at the site of an Israeli strike on Damascus that killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' spy chief for Syria and three other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media said, in an attack that flattened a multi-storey residential building. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said six people were killed in the Israeli strike in the Mazzeh neighbourhood of the Syrian capital. IMAGES
Emergency services and Syrians search through the rubble at the site of an Israeli strike on Damascus which killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' spy chief for Syria and three other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media said, in an attack that flattened a multi-storey residential building. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said six people were killed in the Israeli strike in the Mazzeh neighbourhood of the Syrian capital. IMAGES
With German train drivers on strike, services across the capital Berlin remain disrupted and intermittent, with cancellations and reduced services seen across both local and regional train journeys. Disruption is expected across the country as a result of the train drivers' union's latest salvo in an escalating dispute over working conditions. It is their second walkout in weeks -- in mid-November, train drivers staged a 20-hour strike that led to the cancellation of some 80 percent of long-distance trains nationwide. IMAGES
Emergency services are on scene after several explosions rocked Ukraine's capital overnight. One of the missiles hit the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv, setting multiple cars on fire. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said two people were injured and 15 percent of households were without power and 40 percent without heating following the explosions. IMAGES
Images of Lufthansa airline passengers in queues at Frankfurt airport to exchange or get refunds on their tickets as the German airline group has cancelled almost all of its flights to and from its main German hubs in Munich and Frankfurt after pilots called a strike. According to Lufthansa, 130,000 passengers have been affected by the cancellations. IMAGES