Indicators of a counteroffensive in Ukraine
Ukrainian forces have stepped up artillery strikes and floor assaults at a number of factors alongside the entrance line. The navy motion, which started on Sunday, might sign that Kyiv’s long-awaited counteroffensive in opposition to Russia has begun, U.S. officers mentioned. The Russian authorities reported yesterday that main Ukrainian assaults had began at 5 totally different areas within the japanese area of Donetsk.
Ukraine has mentioned that it’s going to make no formal announcement in regards to the begin of its counteroffensive. This previous weekend, the Ukrainian navy launched a video renewing its plea for operational silence in regards to the anticipated counteroffensive, with the slogan “Plans love silence.”
Navy analysts and Western officers have lengthy thought {that a} counteroffensive will give attention to southern Ukraine and purpose at severing the land routes that join Russia and occupied Crimea. The operation is predicted to contain hundreds of Ukrainian troops — together with many educated by NATO forces and geared up with superior Western gear.
Far-right iconography: Why do some Ukrainian troopers put on symbols that have been made infamous by Nazi Germany? And the way does it relate to false claims by Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, that Ukraine is a Nazi state?
In different information: President Biden hosted Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, on the White Home to focus on safety initiatives, together with offering navy help to Ukraine.
Dozens killed in flooding in Haiti
Not less than 42 folks have been lifeless, 85 others injured and hundreds extra displaced after a weekend of heavy rainfall and widespread flooding in Haiti, officers mentioned. Greater than 13,000 properties have been waterlogged, displacing folks throughout the Caribbean nation, based on the nation’s catastrophe response company.
Movies circulating on social media depict dramatic scenes of flooded roadways that seem like flowing rivers, with automobiles floating away.
The loss of life toll was the best within the port metropolis of Léogâne — west of Port-au-Prince, the capital — the place 19 folks died, based on the authorities. As of yesterday afternoon, there have been no deaths or accidents reported in Port-au-Prince, however about 4,500 properties there have been affected by flooding, the authorities mentioned.
Context: The flooding is the newest blow to a rustic that has turn into all too aware of pure disasters, most notably a magnitude-7 earthquake in 2010 that killed greater than 200,000 folks and destroyed a lot of Port-au-Prince, leaving lasting results on the nation’s economic system and infrastructure.
Categorised paperwork inquiry in opposition to Trump nears an finish
Attorneys for Donald Trump met yesterday with Justice Division officers after requesting a gathering to debate their issues in regards to the investigations into the previous president’s dealing with of categorised paperwork. As the tip of the inquiry nears, Trump’s advisers are mentioned to have concluded that there may not be way more time to stave off expenses.
Shortly after their go to, Trump posted a message on his social media platform, Fact Social, suggesting that his authorized workforce had not less than mentioned with him the chance that he could possibly be indicted. “How can DOJ presumably cost me, who did nothing fallacious,” he wrote in all capital letters.
Prosecutors are anticipated to query a brand new witness in entrance of a federal grand jury sitting in Florida this week, folks aware of the matter mentioned. Not less than one different witness has already appeared earlier than the Florida grand jury, which is separate from the one which has been sitting for months in Washington.
Every spring, in a surprising show, large chunks of ice and snow from Greenland cross by way of Iceberg Alley, a stretch of water alongside the japanese coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, on a slow-motion journey southward to the North Atlantic Ocean.
The author Sam Howe Verhovek went to see them off — together with about half one million Atlantic puffins and one of many best concentrations of migrating humpback whales discovered anyplace.
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Harry vs. the tabloids
Prince Harry’s bitter feud with Britain’s tabloids is coming to a head this week. He’ll testify at present in a phone-hacking case in opposition to the Mirror newspaper group — making him the primary senior royal to testify in court docket since 1891, when the Prince of Wales, the longer term Edward VII, testified within the case of a person accused of dishonest at a recreation of baccarat.
Harry and his spouse, Meghan, are plaintiffs in no fewer than seven circumstances in opposition to the British tabloids and different media organizations for telephone hacking and different violations of their privateness. Harry has additionally filed two claims in opposition to Britain’s House Workplace associated to the lack of his police safety throughout journeys to his dwelling nation.
The litigation has been costly and time-consuming. However the court docket appearances do give him a platform to press what he has solid as certainly one of his life’s missions: Curbing the excesses of the tabloids, which he and Meghan have accused of upending folks’s lives “for no good cause, aside from the truth that salacious gossip boosts promoting income.”
