A huge explosion ripped through a gunpowder factory in Russia on Friday as fighting also continued in Ukraine ahead of a bombshell summit between Presidents Putin and Trump in Alaska.Five people were killed and at least 20 were injured, 10 of them seriously, in the blast that sparked a huge fire at the Elastik gunpowder plant near the city of Ryazan, just over 100 miles southeast of Moscow.
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