More than 140 drones were shot down over the surrounding Leningrad region, governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said, while the city’s governor, Alexander Beglov, urged residents to stay indoors for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Source link
Teenager Mirra Andreeva won her first Grand Slam title as Polish qualifier Maja Chwalinska was denied a fairytale French Open victory. Andreeva, 19, fulfilled the potential she has long shown with a 6-3 6-2 win over an opponent who was a 500-1 outsider before the tournament. Russian eighth seed Andreeva is the youngest woman to […]
The British actor, who also appeared in Merlin and Little Britain, died of complications from pneumonia. Source link
The US military says it struck Iranian drones and radar sites. Tehran responds by targeting US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. Source link
Dawa Sherpa was spotted alive by a cleaning crew as he slid slowly down the world’s tallest mountain and spoke to the BBC from hospital. Source link
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the former DUP leader, is on trial for 18 sex abuse charges, including one count of rape, all of which he denies. Source link
Ukraine’s president tells the Russian leader that only “direct engagement” between the two countries could end the war, with the US focused on Iran. Source link
In an open letter to the Russian president, the Ukrainian leader said it would be “wrong to simply wait” until the war in Europe becomes the focus of the US’s attention once more, adding peace could only come “through direct engagement between” Ukraine and Russia. Source link
The justice department charged Bolton last October, accusing him of putting the public at risk by allegedly mishandling classified documents, some designated as top secret or sensitive compartmented information, during and after his stint as Trump’s national security advisor between April 2018 and September 2019. Source link
The agreement between Israel and Lebanon, reached after a fourth round of US-mediated talks in Washington, is contingent on the “evacuation of all [Hezbollah] operatives” from an area between the Israeli border and the Litani river, about 30km (19 miles) to the north, which is currently occupied by Israeli ground forces. Source link
