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| President Vladimir Putin of Russia with Adm. Nikolai Yevmenov, in July. Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
Russia fired its top naval commander
The Kremlin fired its top naval commander after a series of devastating attacks by Ukraine on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, according to Ukrainian and Western officials and reports in Russian and Western news outlets.
The commander, Adm. Nikolai Yevmenov, was removed from his post and replaced by the head of Russia’s Northern Fleet. The Russian government declined to confirm whether there had been any personnel changes.
U.S. officials believe that Ukraine has sunk 15 Russian ships in the past six months, surprising victories considering that Ukraine does not have a traditional navy. Instead, Ukraine has used sea drones and missiles to strike Russian ships.
Ukraine estimates that a third of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, which once numbered 80 ships, has been destroyed since the war began two years ago. European officials have said that the naval victories have reopened the western Black Sea, allowing Ukraine to again ship grain from Odesa.
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| The Biden administration announced a plan to send $300 million in weapons to Ukraine.The chief of staff to Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died last month, was attacked with a hammer and tear gas and injured outside his home in Lithuania.Electronic countermeasures have become one of the Russian military’s most formidable weapons, and a challenge for Ukraine’s drone operators. |
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| A demonstration in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the prime minister resigned. Clarens Siffroy/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
Kenya paused a police deployment to Haiti
A deployment of 1,000 Kenyan police officers to help quell gang-fueled lawlessness in Haiti is on hold until a new government is formed there, officials in Kenya said.
Kenya had reached the deal for the police force with Ariel Henry, who this week agreed to step down as Haiti’s prime minister once a new transitional government is formed. Henry has been stranded for days in Puerto Rico after a gang takeover of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.
Kenyan officials said that they will wait until a new governing body is in office before deploying officers to take on the gangs.
Political actors in Haiti met behind closed doors to negotiate forming the transitional government in the next few days. But the process was criticized by some as lacking transparency.
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| The ship Open Arms, departing Cyprus with aid for Gaza. Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters |
First ship of aid headed for Gaza
A ship hauling more than 200 tons of food left Cyprus for the Gaza Strip yesterday morning, beginning the first test of a maritime corridor designed to help feed the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians the U.N. says are on the brink of starvation.
But the food was only a tiny fraction of what it would take to alleviate the widespread hunger in Gaza, and aid officials emphasized that it was no substitute for the volume of goods that could be delivered by truck if Israel were to open more land crossings.
For more, see this multimedia feature on the daily hunt for food in Gaza.Continue reading the main story
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India: Weeks before a national election, India’s Hindu nationalist government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, above, announced that it would begin enforcing a 2019 citizenship law that was criticized as anti-Muslim.
Royal Family: Since Catherine, Princess of Wales, released a doctored photo, the family is experiencing the darker side of public life online.
Conservative Party: Britain’s governing Conservative Party was under pressure to return more than 10 million pounds to a donor who reportedly made racist remarks about a prominent lawmaker.
Boeing: An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 Jet was scheduled for a safety check on the day a door plug blew out of the plane while in flight.
Trade: China’s exports are powering ahead, jeopardizing jobs around the globe and setting off a backlash.
Zimbabwe: The African nation deported U.S. government personnel, accusing them of promoting “regime change.”
Andrew Tate: The social media influencer known for his misogynistic views can be extradited to Britain to face sex crime charges after his trial in Romania ends, a court in Bucharest said.
Australia: Seven people, including four children, were missing in Western Australia after flooding caused by record rain.
U.S. Politics
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| The special counsel who investigated President Biden defended the disparaging assessment of the president’s mental state included in his final report — and his decision not to charge Biden with a crime.Biden and Donald Trump clinched their parties’ nominations, guaranteeing an electoral rematch in November.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. approached Aaron Rodgers, the star N.F.L. quarterback, and Jesse Ventura, the former professional wrestler and Minnesota governor, about serving as his running mate on an independent presidential ticket. |
A Morning Read
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| Andrea Chronopoulos |
Fewer people are paying for dating apps like Tinder and Bumble, frustrating investors and perhaps indicating a generational shift in dating. Millennials were originally the biggest customers, but now the primary users are from Gen Z, a cohort more likely to meet via apps like Snapchat or TikTok and less willing to pay for a dating app.
“Paying for it makes it feel a little skeezy,” said one professor who studies dating apps.
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Diego Maradona at Barcelona: Wild parties, wilder brawls — and a feeling of what might have been.
Haaland vs. van Dijk: When the Premier League’s best striker took on its best defender.
Formula 1 at its best: Ollie Bearman’s gleeful Ferrari debut.
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Tate Britain walks a fine line over a racist mural
For nearly 100 years, a 55-foot-long mural by Rex Whistler was the backdrop of a high-end restaurant at the Tate Britain museum in London. It was only in 2020, during a summer of protests against racial injustice, that people highlighted two racist images in the mural.
The museum’s solution was to install a new video work by Keith Piper, a Black British artist, that aims to highlight and explain Whistler’s work, while trying to satisfy activists and conservative politicians and art historians.
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