KYIV, Ukraine
The Ukraine army’s sudden strike into Russia this week was a daring advance that caught the Kremlin’s forces unawares. The strategic goal of Ukraine’s biggest cross-border incursion in almost 900 days of the war remains unclear, but it counters Russia’s unrelenting effort in recent months to punch through Ukrainian defenses at selected points along the front line in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian offensive’s slow, grinding momentum has achieved only modest gains and brought heavy losses of troops and armor. But, bit by bit, the advances are adding up. These summer months are critical for Ukraine and its depleted army. It must hold at bay its bigger and better-equipped enemy on the battlefield, while before winter arrives.
While people knew they had connections to Hamas, neighbors say no one could have guessed how deep those links truly went. When Israeli forces stormed the Aljamals’ building on June 8 they found Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv, hostages who had been captured from the Nova music festival on October 7, cowering in a darkened room. The experience of the three men – alongside that of Noa Argamani who was held in another house nearby, belonging to the Abu Nar family – echoes testimony from previously released hostages. They describe being confined among the civilian population, rather than in Hamas’ vast tunnel network under Gaza.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians north of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah last Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding another 50, according to the territory’s health officials and emergency workers. This was just latest and one of many recent attacks in the tiny Palestinian enclave where hundreds of thousands have fled fighting between Israel and Hamas... It comes less than a month after an Israeli bombing triggered a deadly fire that tore through a camp for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza, drawing widespread international outrage including from some of Israel’s closest allies over the military’s expanding offensive into Rafah.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has defended Joe Biden over his fumble after being called 'Putin' when Biden was introducing him at a NATO event last Thursday."
LONDON, ENGLAND - Six British lawmakers entered the race to lead the defeated Conservative Party by Monday’s deadline, in a contest that will decide whether the opposition party tacks to the right or steers toward the political center.
The assassination would make him the highest-level Hamas official killed by Israel since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks, when militants killed 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages.
On March 6, Russia fired a missile into the Ukrainian port of Odesa that exploded about 400
metres (1,300ft) from where
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was preparing to tour the city with
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Law that bars people who are the subject of domestic violence restraining orders from owning weapons is upheld.
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