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 army motion, which started on Sunday, might sign that Kyiv’s long-awaited counteroffensive in opposition to Russia has begun, U.S. officers stated. The Russian authorities reported yesterday that main Ukrainian assaults had began at 5 totally different areas within the jap area of Donetsk.
Ukraine has stated that it’s going to make no formal announcement concerning the begin of its counteroffensive. This previous weekend, the Ukrainian army launched a video renewing its plea for operational silence concerning the anticipated counteroffensive, with the slogan “Plans love silence.”
Army analysts and Western officers have lengthy thought {that a} counteroffensive will deal with southern Ukraine and intention at severing the land routes that join Russia and occupied Crimea. The operation is anticipated to contain 1000’s of Ukrainian troops — together with many skilled 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 army assist to Ukraine.
Dozens killed in flooding in Haiti
At the least 42 folks have been lifeless, 85 others injured and 1000’s extra displaced after a weekend of heavy rainfall and widespread flooding in Haiti, officers stated. Greater than 13,000 houses have been waterlogged, displacing folks throughout the Caribbean nation, in keeping with 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 dying toll was the best within the port metropolis of Léogâne — west of Port-au-Prince, the capital — the place 19 folks died, in keeping with the authorities. As of yesterday afternoon, there have been no deaths or accidents reported in Port-au-Prince, however about 4,500 houses there have been affected by flooding, the authorities stated.
Context: The flooding is the newest blow to a rustic that has turn out to be 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 financial system and infrastructure.
Categorized 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 considerations concerning the investigations into the previous president’s dealing with of categorized paperwork. As the tip of the inquiry nears, Trump’s advisers are stated to have concluded that there may not be far more time to stave off prices.
Shortly after their go to, Trump posted a message on his social media platform, Reality Social, suggesting that his authorized crew had at the least mentioned with him the chance that he could possibly be indicted. “How can DOJ probably cost me, who did nothing incorrect,” 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 stated. At the least 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 shocking show, big chunks of ice and snow from Greenland cross via Iceberg Alley, a stretch of water alongside the jap 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 1,000,000 Atlantic puffins and one of many best concentrations of migrating humpback whales discovered wherever.
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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 right this moment 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 instances in opposition to the British tabloids and different media organizations for cellphone hacking and different violations of their privateness. Harry has additionally filed two claims in opposition to Britain’s Dwelling Workplace associated to the lack of his police safety throughout journeys to his residence 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 one among his life’s missions: Curbing the excesses of the tabloids, which he and Meghan have accused of upending folks’s lives “for no good motive, apart from the truth that salacious gossip boosts promoting income.”