Good morning. Ukraine’s top commander says (386 sq miles) of Russia’s bordering Kursk region a week into its surprise incursion, while the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has promised a “worthy response” to the attack. “We continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Kursk region.
Currently, we control about 1,000 sq km of the territory of the Russian Federation,” Oleksandr Syrskyi said in a video published on Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s Telegram account, but provided little other detail. Russia’s acting regional governor of Kursk, Alexei Smirnov, said 121,000 people had fled the region since the start of the fighting and estimated that Kyiv’s forces had advanced through an area 12km deep and 40km wide – about half of the size that Syrskyi claimed. Neither sides’ claims have been independently verified.
As defensive. Zelenskiy said on Monday that Russia had used the Kursk region to launch many strikes. It’s unclear what weapons Ukraine is using, but some western countries are concerned that using their arms within Russia could drag Nato into war with Moscow.
Donald Trump for an unfocused and divisive interview that was beset with technical difficulties and weird comments. The interview on X, which is owned by Musk, began more than 40 minutes late and included Trump telling the story of the failed assassination attempt against him, despite having previously said he would only share the tale once, at the Republican convention last month. He at times .
Trump moved on to discuss his anti-immigration views, speaking about the “rough people” attempting to enter the US through its border with Mexico. has found no connection between immigration and raised levels of crime. The former president then attacked Kamala Harris, before bizarrely complimenting the vice-president as looking “beautiful” in a sketch on of Time magazine, and comparing her to his wife, Melania.
It looks like Harris is starting to edge ahead. The Decision Desk HQ and the Hill’s gives Harris a 0.3% lead over Trump, who a 3.
3% advantage over Joe Biden before he dropped out. The former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi and the former Australian prime minister Paul Keating , after the Democrat accused Keating of making a “stupid statement” about the territory. Keating struck back on Tuesday, accusing Pelosi of “very nearly” triggering a military confrontation between the US and China over her “recklessly indulgent” visit to Taiwan in 2022.
The spat began after ABC with Pelosi in which she admonished Keating for describing Taiwan as “Chinese real estate”. He responded by attacking Pelosi for visiting Taiwan in 2022 – the first visit to the territory by a speaker of the US House of Representatives in a quarter of a century. Formally, it “acknowledges the position of the Chinese government that Taiwan is a province of the People’s Republic of China” – but the two maintain relations on an “unofficial basis”.
half the energy of comparable homes. are working to bolster flood defenses. or injuries were immediately reported.
Police registered more than across Ukraine in 2023 – a 20% rise on the previous year, when the Russian invasion began, according to Ukraine’s internal affairs ministry. Experts expect this to increase further this year, pointing to intensified stress factors during war, while they said many women feel less able to complain when domestic violence involves war veterans. Exploring trauma has always been a part of many shows at the Edinburgh festival fringe.
But after Baby Reindeer, how to navigate the benefits and perils in sharing toxic personal experiences. “Once something goes public, it’s not yours any more and a portrayal of you then exists in everyone’s mind,” said the author Darren McGarvey. Greek firefighters that have reached Athens’s suburbs, with one person confirmed dead and evacuation orders in place for some areas.
Meteorologists believe 2024 on record and conditions have been exacerbated by a prolonged drought. Jet lag and confined space mean tensions can rise quickly where elevated altitudes are involved. Or , who found herself in the midst of an airplane altercation that began while she was telling the story of another in-flight argument: “They talk about the fight-or-flight cortisol response; fight- -flight is a whole new level.
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