Terror groups in the #Sahel have stepped up attacks in recent months. We went to Niger to meet U.S.-trained special forces on the frontlines of the fight against extremists youtube.com/watch?v=xf3Zho (with ) #ViceNewsTonight
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“The count provides hard evidence of the war's impact on Russian forces. But it has also given answers to grieving families. Some relatives did not even know what had happened to their loved ones until the BBC traced them.”
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Incredible work by BBC and partners on this months-long project identifying 25,000 dead Russian soldiers, part of “a fighting force that is increasingly older and less well-trained as the deaths mount up.” bbc.co.uk/news/resources
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Ugandan authorities recovered the bodies of 41 people, including 38 students, who were burned, shot or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked a secondary school near the border with Congo.
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‘It Doesn’t Count as a War Crime if You Had Fun’
on the dehumanizing language in graffiti left behind by occupying Russian soldiers — a rare battlefield artifact and window into the minds of the rank and file.
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For Ukrainian soldiers with the 68th Scout Brigade who entered the newly retaken villages, the sweetness of liberating land was tempered by the panorama of ruin that greeted them and what came next: a relentless bombardment from Russian forces.
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At least six people were killed and 25 injured in a Russian attack on the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine.
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s polarizing and scandal-plagued former prime minister, has died, according to Italian media. He was 86.
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Russian forces shelled the flood-stricken city of Kherson, striking close to an evacuation point just hours after President Zelensky visited to witness the aftermath of the Kakhovka dam’s destruction.
A house. A child’s bed. A dead cow and a ruined car.
Natalia Kamenetska has watched from the shore as the waters in front of her slowly rose, the devastation upriver hinted at in the debris floating past.
“Everything washes by,” she said.
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“Now it is not only us suffering,” he said. “We hear they are suffering also.”
reports from Vovchansk, where cross-border skirmishes have heightened anxiety for Ukrainian villagers
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“The water is coming! Help! I am begging you!” one person wrote. “Three people on the roof, one of them elderly.”
Online community forums offer a glimpse at the plight of people in flooded areas that are under Russian occupation, reports. nytimes.com/live/2023/06/0
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Oleksiy Kolesnik waded ashore and stood, trembling, on dry land for the first time in hours, rescued after spending the predawn sitting on top of a cabinet in his flooded living room.
“The water came really quickly,” said Kolesnik. “It happened so fast.”
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The destruction of the Kakhovka dam will cut off the water supply to hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland, Ukraine’s agriculture ministry has warned.
“The fields in the south of Ukraine may turn into deserts as early as next year,” it said. nytimes.com/live/2023/06/0
Drone photographs taken over Kherson showed floodwater in the city’s streets, the day after the Kakhovka dam was destroyed. nytimes.com/live/2023/06/0
Video showing the flooding and devastation in Russian-occupied Oleshky, Kherson oblast, a day after the Kakhovka Dam under Russian forces’ control was destroyed.
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On the 79th anniversary of D-Day, resharing some of my Dad’s memories and reflections from that time. (Thread, filmed four years ago) #DDay79
Ever grateful for the moments he’s chosen to share — and especially lucky to have had him as my lunch date today.
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Seventy-five years ago, my father and his small cell of French resistance fighters were in hiding in the Loire Valley, where they carried out acts of sabotage against the Nazis.
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Videos and photographs show the extent of flooding downstream from the Kakhovka dam. nytimes.com/live/2023/06/0
The rupture of the Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine will have far-reaching consequences both downstream and upstream.
offers a look at some of the places that are immediately threatened. nytimes.com/live/2023/06/0
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The security of the Kakhovka dam, the second largest of the cascade of dams on the Dnipro River and a vital source of water and power, has been a continuing concern during the war in Ukraine, with both sides accusing the other of plotting to destroy it. nytimes.com/live/2023/06/0
“Even as water levels rose in the town and people waded about in swamped front yards rescuing pets and belongings, Russian artillery shelling was still hitting the town.” nytimes.com/live/2023/06/0
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The Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine has been destroyed, flooding areas downstream & raising questions about safety at a nearby nuclear plant.
Ukraine accused Russian forces of blowing up the dam & began evacuating residents.
Live updates here: nytimes.com/live/2023/06/0
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Satellite images made by on June 5 showed recent damage to the Nova Khakova dam’s sluice gates and a section of roadway running across it. Before images (1 and 3) made on May 28. After images (2 and 4) made June 5, around 12:15pm.
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“Though still unproven on the battlefield, the 47th brigade is armed almost entirely with Western weapons and, in a first, nearly every one of the unit’s soldiers has undergone a weeks-long course with foreign instructors.”
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The award-winning film “20 Days in Mariupol” made its premiere in Ukraine … to repeated standing ovations in a packed Kyiv cinema, mixed with tears and hugs.
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More than 230 people were killed and hundreds more injured when a passenger train derailed and struck two other trains in the state of Odisha in eastern India.
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In the darkness, a group of 10 families with children banged on the doors with their hands and feet, pleading to be let inside, Riabchuk said. He ran to the other side of the building to find another entrance. Then he felt the blast.
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It is time for to come home and back to the WSJ newsroom. The U.S. government must act. And the Russian government must release him. #IStandWithEvan
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25 NAT0-led peacekeepers injured in Kosovo in clashes with Serbs outside municipal building
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"Memorial Day, by tradition, is a remembrance of those who’ve fallen fighting America’s wars. This year, for these families, it surfaces a complicated set of emotions as they are forced to reckon with the meaning of service under one flag and sacrifice under another."
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On this Memorial Day, @AlexHortonTX and I explore the meaning of the day for numerous American families who have loved ones who died in Ukraine.
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“Any parent who loves their kid would travel to the end of the world to be with them for five minutes.” -- Ella Milman, #EvanGershkovich's mother. #IStandWithEvan wsj.com/articles/missi via
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Tina Turner, the unstoppable superstar whose hits included 'What's Love Got to Do With It,' has died at 83
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“I don’t know how to describe this happiness and this sadness at the same time,” Evan’s mother Ella Milman said. They communicated through smiles. “He was so happy to see us. It was a relief for him, and a relief for us,” she said. wsj.com/articles/inves via
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Ok Twitter. My best attempts have failed -- am searching for an archive image from Kosovo... Shows a truck filled with shoes 'for refugees.' If this rings any bells... Would be immensely grateful.
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Before going into the hearing, Mr. Gershkovich’s father said, “We hope he is doing great and that he can be as strong as his mother.”
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With his parents watching, Moscow court orders @evangershkovich kept in jail until at least Aug. 30. Prosecutors have offered no proof to back up the bogus espionage charge that could lead to 20 years in prison. @NYTimesCohen nytimes.com/2023/05/23/wor
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The notion of a “winner” in the battle for Bakhmut "defies what is so clearly lost — the many lives and homes in the once peaceful city, known for its salt-mines and sparkling wine, largely reduced to ashes."
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Bakhmut is where the longest and bloodiest battle of the Ukraine war has raged for months. Drone footage taken by The New York Times captured the scorched buildings, destroyed schools and cratered parks that now define the once peaceful city. nyti.ms/3om7O4m
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Who ultimately gained in Bakhmut will only be known in hindsight — and depends on which side was more degraded by nine months of carnage. A successful Ukrainian offensive would help validate Kyiv’s controversial decision to cling to Bakhmut. Our analysis.
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"Their ordeal might ordinarily have remained largely unknown, like those of so many other asylum seekers whose accounts of mistreatment have been dismissed by the Greek government. Only on this occasion, it was captured in its entirety on video."
Important work. Read this ⬇️
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An impressive investigation by @MatinaStevis @nytimes with footage obtained by @FayadMulla shows from start to finish how Greece forcibly returns asylum-seekers to Turkey, abandoning small children on rafts in the Aegean. Damning evidence. nytimes.com/2023/05/19/wor
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“Be truthful, but not neutral," Amanpour urged grads today. "Bothsidesism …does not get you to the truth. Drawing false moral or factual equivalence is neither objective or truthful.”
Via view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/16843
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Day 50. 7 weeks. Our friend and colleague remains in a Russian prison, unjustly detained. We call for his immediate release. #IStandWithEvan #journalismisnotacrime
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