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Olga Ivashchenko/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesCrowds took to the streets of Kyiv on Thursday following the removal of defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov”My operation is scheduled for tomorrow,” says the disfigured soldier, still recovering from his terrible injuries.”I hope when I wake up after the anaesthetic, Fedorov will be back at the Ministry of Defence,” the unnamed soldier says in a video posted on Telegram. “Otherwise, everything I was fighting for will have been in vain.”Among Ukraine’s battle-weary soldiers and wounded veterans, there’s a collective sense of outrage at this week’s political developments.President Zelensky’s decision not to re-appoint his successful young defence…
Alexander NEMENOV/AFP via Getty ImagesNadezhdin briefly needed medical treatment when he appeared in court on FridayRussian authorities have continued to clamp down on what little domestic opposition remains in the country by detaining a well-known blogger and moving to prevent a local politician from running for parliament.Blogger Ilya Remeslo was a staunch supporter of Vladimir Putin until he staged a dramatic about-turn last March, calling the president a “war criminal and thief” and saying he should resign.He has now been remanded in custody for two months on suspicion of spreading false information against the military.Separately, Boris Nadezhdin has been convicted…
Getty ImagesAndy Burnham said he had still not decided who will be in his cabinet ahead of him taking over from Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister on Monday.Asked why he had not announced his top team, the new Labour leader said: “It would be somewhat premature and would, I think, cause complete chaos if you start half a reshuffle before you’re in the position.”There has been widespread speculation about Burnham’s cabinet picks, with Ed Miliband and Shabana Mahmood thought to be in the running to replace Rachel Reeves as chancellor.In an earlier speech after becoming party leader, the former…
West Indies legend Sobers dies aged 89Legendary former West Indies all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers, regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time, dies aged 89.3 hrs agoCricket
Getty ImagesIn a 26-minute speech from the White House, President Donald Trump revived some familiar claims about US election fraud and interference.Standing in the East Room – the same venue where Barack Obama announced the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011 – Trump said the current election system was “catastrophically short” of being secure and that hundreds of declassified intelligence files would reveal these “shocking vulnerabilities”.BBC Verify has reviewed these documents, although some of them have been heavily redacted.There appear to be no bombshell revelations and no evidence that interference or fraud actually changed the outcome of previous elections…
LIVEDangerous wildfire smoke blankets large parts of Canada and the USThick pollution has made the air stretching from Winnipeg to the southern US unhealthy to breathe and officials are encouraging people to stay indoors.
Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics |Harvard & SmithsonianArtwork: The red tinge illustrates an atmosphere around a rocky planet orbting a red starResearchers have found the first atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star.The researchers say that their discovery provides the strongest evidence yet that worlds with conditions similar to Earth could exist beyond our solar system.The gas detected in the atmosphere is helium, which would not be able to support life, but other gasses may also be present.The lead author, Dr Collin Cherubim of Harvard University, described the discovery as “a big deal”.The…
Getty ImagesBrenda Fricker with her Oscar in 1990Irish actress Brenda Fricker, who won an Oscar for her role in 1989 film My Left Foot and had well-loved parts in Home Alone 2 and TV’s Casualty, has died at the age of 81.Fricker won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 1990 for playing Daniel Day-Lewis’s on-screen mother in My Left Foot.She played nurse Megan Roach in the BBC’s Casualty from 1986, making her final appearance in 2010; and was the Central Park pigeon lady in 1992’s Home Alone sequel.In a statement, her agent Phil Belfield said: “We will never see…
ATLANTA (news agencies) — Federal health officials have identified lettuce from Mexico served at Taco Bell locations across five U.S. states as a source of the widespread outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Thursday warned consumers not to eat shredded iceberg lettuce from Taco Bell restaurants in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. A record number of cyclospora cases have been reported in more than 30 states, and experts have said not every recent U.S. illness might be caused by a single source.A Food and Drug Administration investigation identified a single supplier of…
Tristar Media/Getty ImagesJens Spahn (R) is accused of adopting double standards as he has opposed legalising surrogacy in the pastGerman centre-right politician Jens Spahn has been accused of double standards, after he revealed he and his husband had become parents using a surrogate mother in the US.Surrogacy is banned in Germany – a policy firmly backed by his Christian Democrat party, and several years ago by Spahn himself.Although there is no German ban on bringing up a child born to a surrogate mother abroad, Spahn, 46, has been criticised by politicians from several parties, including his own.”Politicians who set standards…