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The United States final week secretly shipped a brand new long-range missile system to Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces instantly used the weapons to assault a Russian navy airfield in Crimea final Wednesday and Russian troops within the nation’s southeast in a single day on Tuesday, based on a senior U.S. official. The United States had […] More

The skies above Athens turned orange on Tuesday as clouds of mud from the Sahara blew north, casting an eerie glow over the Greek capital’s landmarks. The phenomenon isn’t new — sandstorms from North Africa have shrouded Britain, Greece and Spain previously — however the occasion led to exceptional scenes across the Acropolis and in […] More

Several runaway navy horses galloped by the streets of London on Wednesday morning, alarming pedestrians, sideswiping automobiles and buses, and turning an bizarre rush hour into a daunting, nearly surreal spectacle. One individual was being handled for accidents after being thrown from a horse on Buckingham Palace Road, in line with the London ambulance service. […] More

At a household counseling heart in Verbania, a leafy lakefront city in northern Italy, staff not solely clarify to girls the foundations for getting abortions, they’ve additionally distributed leaflets provided by an area anti-abortion group. “Are you pregnant?” reads the flier from the “Center for Assistance to Life” within the city. If you suppose the […] More

A courtroom in Moscow rejected an attraction on Tuesday by the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in opposition to his detention, greater than a yr after he grew to become the primary American journalist arrested on spying expenses in Russia because the Cold War. The courtroom dominated that Mr. Gershkovich, 32, should keep in […] More

The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday evening to offer remaining approval to a $95.3 billion bundle of assist to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending it to President Biden and ending months of uncertainty about whether or not the United States would proceed to again Kyiv in its combat towards Russian aggression. The vote mirrored resounding […] More

A brand new research financed by the International Olympic Committee discovered that transgender feminine athletes confirmed larger handgrip energy — an indicator of general muscle energy — however decrease leaping means, lung operate and relative cardiovascular health in contrast with girls whose gender was assigned feminine at start. That information, which additionally in contrast trans […] More

One man was charged with drunken driving after crashing his truck and spilling 11,000 salmon onto a freeway in Oregon. Another was secretly recorded by his spouse, who was satisfied he was a closet alcoholic. And in Belgium, a brewery employee was not too long ago pulled over and given a breathalyzer take a look […] More

After a protracted battle within the courts and in Parliament, Britain’s Conservative authorities secured passage of laws on Monday that’s meant to permit the nation to ship asylum seekers to Rwanda. The laws is meant to override a Supreme Court ruling final 12 months that deemed the plan to ship asylum seekers to the African […] More

An aide to a German lawmaker within the European Parliament has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China, Germany’s federal prosecutor’s workplace stated Tuesday. The arrest happened on Monday within the japanese metropolis of Dresden. It got here simply hours after the German authorities arrested three folks within the west of the nation on […] More

Opening statements in Trump’s Manhattan trial The first legal trial of a former U.S. president started yesterday, with attorneys from either side presenting divergent visions of Donald Trump of their opening statements. Prosecutors delivered a uncooked recounting of Trump’s seamy previous, portraying him as a co-conspirator in a plot to cowl up three intercourse scandals […] More

The notion of making a protected house for an viewers to expertise a piece of theater tends to impress the tough-guy purists, as a result of it feels like coddling. Shouldn’t the stage be a spot of daring, unhampered by any content material revelations that may spoil the shock? Presumably, anybody who arrives at St. […] More