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Donald Trump mentioned he had sealed an settlement with Nato allies that may result in large-scale arms deliveries to Ukraine, together with Patriot missiles, and warned Russia that it will face extreme sanctions if it didn’t make peace inside 50 days.
After a gathering with the Nato secretary normal, Mark Rutte, Trump mentioned they’d agreed “a very big deal” underneath which “billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment is going to be purchased from the United States, going to Nato … And that’s going to be quickly distributed to the battlefield”.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, mentioned he was “grateful to President Trump” in his nightly video handle.
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What does it imply for the struggle? The US will promote weapons to Ukraine, the president mentioned, with different Nato nations paying the invoice. In any other case, specifics had been scant. No sums of cash had been talked about, making it laborious to calibrate how a lot of a distinction the proposed weapon provide would make to Kyiv.
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What about sanctions? Nothing new proper now. Trump did promise to levy a 100% tariff on Russia if Putin didn’t agree a deal to halt the preventing inside 50 days.
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So what’s the importance? Make no mistake: tonally, Trump’s statements are a big U-turn on his method to the struggle. “We’re very unhappy – I am – with Russia,” he mentioned.
Israeli authorities and navy conflict over proposed ‘concentration camp’ for Palestinians
A feud has damaged out between the Israeli authorities and the navy over the price and influence of a deliberate camp for Palestinians in southern Gaza, as politicians criticized the previous prime minister Ehud Olmert for warning that the challenge would create a “concentration camp” if it went forward.
The row got here as Israeli strikes throughout Gaza killed at the very least 31 folks, based on native hospitals. Twelve folks had been killed by strikes in southern Gaza, together with three who had been ready at an help distribution level, based on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, which obtained the our bodies.
In the meantime, Francesca Albanese, the UN particular rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, hailed a 30-nation convention aimed toward ending Israel’s occupation of Palestine as “the most significant political development in the past 20 months”.
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How have Hamas negotiators reacted to the information? It has turn out to be a sticking level in ceasefire talks with Hamas, which is pushing for a extra complete withdrawal. Husam Badran, a senior member of the group, mentioned the camp plans had been a “deliberatively obstructive demand” that may complicate talks, the New York Instances reported.
Undocumented farm staff really feel ‘hunted like animals’ amid Trump’s immigration raids
Undocumented farm staff really feel they’re being “hunted like animals”, they instructed the Guardian, as Donald Trump’s administration ramps up its crackdown on immigration.
Raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) have prompted staff to lose hours and revenue and compelled them into hiding at residence, based on interviews.
An Ice raid at a hashish farm within the county final week resulted in a employee struggling deadly accidents after falling from a greenhouse.
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What did staff inform the Guardian? An undocumented farm employee in Ventura County, California, mentioned: “You can’t go out peacefully to do things, or go to work with any peace of mind any more. We’re stressed out and our kids are stressed out. No one is the same since these raids started.”
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Who was the person who died after an Ice raid? Jaime Alanís died a day after a frenzied immigration raid of Glass Home Farms in Ventura County the place authorities arrested at the very least 200 staff. The 57-year-old, who was from the city of Huajúmbaro in Michoacán, Mexico, was described as a “hard-working, innocent farmer”.
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The previous New York governor Andrew Cuomo will run independently for New York Metropolis mayor, after dropping within the Democratic main to Zohran Mamdani.
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Sudan’s paramilitary Fast Assist Forces killed practically 300 folks in assaults in North Kordofan state that started on Saturday, based on Sudanese activists.
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The French authorities has signalled a willingness to focus on reparations for colonial massacres in Niger, greater than a century after French troops burned villages and looted cultural artefacts.
Stat of the day: xAI publicizes $200m navy deal after Grok chatbot’s Nazi posts
The week after its Grok chatbot recognized itself as “MechaHitler” and generated antisemitic posts, Elon Musk’s xAI agency introduced a contract with the Division of Protection price practically $200m. The deal is for creating and implementing synthetic intelligence instruments for the company.
Don’t miss this: Zohran Mamdani’s marketing campaign proposes free childcare. Is it lastly a successful coverage?
Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old state meeting member who gained the Democratic main for New York Metropolis mayor final month, campaigned on a platform of affordability, together with proposals for free childcare for youngsters aged six weeks and older. He plans to fund it by elevating taxes on companies and town’s richest residents. How wouldn’t it work?
Local weather test: A lethal 1987 flood foreshadowed the Texas catastrophe. Survivors ask: why didn’t we be taught?
In July 1987, the Guadalupe River in Texas rose practically 30ft throughout a ferocious rainstorm, resulting in 10 kids drowning. On 4 July this yr, one other flash flood hit the Guadalupe: the dying toll is now practically 130 folks. One survivor requested: “Why didn’t they learn from this?”
Final Factor: First glimpse of HBO’s Harry Potter TV sequence
Cameras have began rolling for HBO’s Harry Potter TV sequence at Warner Bros Studios Leavesden within the UK. HBO has supplied a first glimpse of the brand new sequence, which guarantees to be a “faithful adaptation” of JK Rowling’s novels – “full of the fantastic detail, much-loved characters and dramatic locations that Harry Potter fans have loved for over 25 years”, based on HBO’s announcement in 2023.
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