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- Smiles and unity at the Pacific Islands Forum mask tough questions shelved for another day
- Russia-Ukraine war update: what we know on day 143 of the invasion
- At least five people dead after mass casualty pileup on Interstate 90 in Montana
- Daughter of doctor who gave 10-year-old an abortion faced kidnapping threat
- Two suspects arrested in string of fatal robberies at California 7-Eleven stores
| Smiles and unity at the Pacific Islands Forum mask tough questions shelved for another day Posted: 15 Jul 2022 06:35 PM PDT While leaders presented a picture of harmony, more vexing topics like Australia's fossil fuel ambitions and China were kicked down the road
At the close of the Pacific Islands Forum the leaders emerged from their retreat smiling, cut a giant cake with a sword and then, in an impromptu moment of diplomatic bonhomie, posed for a selfie after Anthony Albanese whipped out his phone, Ellen DeGeneres style. It was, quite literally, a picture of harmony. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Russia-Ukraine war update: what we know on day 143 of the invasion Posted: 15 Jul 2022 05:48 PM PDT At least three killed and 15 hurt in Dnipro missile strike; UK says Kremlin responsible for British captive's death; Ukraine reports May peak in military losses At least three people were killed and 15 injured following a missile attack on Friday on Dnipro in central Ukraine, the country's fourth-largest city with more than 1 million inhabitants. "The rockets hit an industrial plant and a busy street next to it," the regional governor, Valentyn Rezynchenko, said on his Facebook page. The UK said the Kremlin was "fully responsible" for the death of a British captive in east Ukraine as rescue workers in Vinnytsia scoured debris for missing people after devastating Russian rocket attacks. The British foreign secretary, Liz Truss, said: "I am shocked to hear reports of the death of British aid worker Paul Urey while in the custody of a Russian proxy in Ukraine. Russia must bear the full responsibility for this." Rescue workers were still clearing debris in the wake of strikes in Vinnytsia, central Ukraine, that killed at least 23 people. A top Ukrainian official has accused Russia of deliberately escalating its deadly attacks on civilian targets. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine's national security council, told the Guardian that monitoring of Russian strikes suggested an increased emphasis in recent weeks on terrorising Ukraine's civilian population. "That's not my emotions but what our monitoring is telling us." A wounded soldier who returned from Russian captivity has recounted how Russian forces would threaten Ukrainian soldiers with the death penalty if they refused to cooperate. Denys Piskun, an Azov soldier, told Azov Media: "They said that if you don't testify, if you don't cooperate, there will be the death penalty. You all have the death penalty on trial as a Nazi terrorist organisation." Ukrainian officials have confirmed that the US House of Representatives approved $100m in funding to train Ukrainian pilots to operate American aircraft as part of the National Defence Authorisation Act. The pilots will be trained on F-15 and F-16 jets, according to Andriy Yermak, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff. Ukraine's military losses peaked in May, the defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov, said in a new interview aired on Friday. Speaking to the BBC, Reznikov said: "The biggest peak of our losses was in May," with up to 100 soldiers being killed a day. Europe has "shot itself in the lungs" with sanctions aimed at Russia over its war in Ukraine, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said on Friday. Orbán, a nationalist who has ruled Hungary since 2010 and frequently clashes with Brussels, has been a fierce critic of European Union sanctions on Russian oil. In an address on national radio, Orbán urged EU leaders to change the sanctions policy. Ukrainian rocket strikes have destroyed more than 30 Russian military logistics centres in recent weeks and significantly reduced Russia's attacking potential, Ukraine's defence ministry spokesperson said on Friday. The official, Oleksandr Motuzianyk, emphasised the role played by US Himars (high mobility artillery rocket systems) rocket systems, one of several types of long-range weapon supplied by the west to assist Ukraine in the war. M270 long-range multiple rocket launch systems have arrived in Ukraine, the Ukrainian defence minister announced on Friday. "They will be good company for Himars on the battlefield." Continue reading... |
| At least five people dead after mass casualty pileup on Interstate 90 in Montana Posted: 15 Jul 2022 07:18 PM PDT Twenty or more vehicles were involved in the crash near Hardin, authorities said At least five people have died after a pileup on Interstate 90 in Montana, authorities said. At least 20 vehicles crashed in what authorities are calling a "mass casualty incident" on Friday evening. Continue reading... |
| Daughter of doctor who gave 10-year-old an abortion faced kidnapping threat Posted: 15 Jul 2022 06:22 PM PDT Caitlin Bernard of Indiana is named on an extreme anti-abortion website linked to Amy Coney Barrett The Indiana doctor who recently provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim whose story has garnered national attention faced serious threats in the past and is named on an extreme anti-abortion website linked to Amy Coney Barrett before she was a supreme court justice. Dr Caitlin Bernard testified last year, in a case involving abortion restrictions in Indiana, that she was forced to stop providing first-trimester abortions at a clinic in South Bend. She stopped the procedures after she was alerted by Planned Parenthood – who in turn had been alerted by the FBI – that a kidnapping threat had been made against her daughter. Continue reading... |
| Two suspects arrested in string of fatal robberies at California 7-Eleven stores Posted: 15 Jul 2022 04:57 PM PDT Two people were killed and three wounded in the six robberies that occurred on 11 July in Orange county locations Authorities said on Friday that two suspects have been arrested in a series of deadly robberies at southern California 7-Eleven convenience stores where two people were killed and three wounded. The Orange county district attorney's office announced the arrests on social media. A press conference is scheduled for 5pm. No other details were immediately available. Continue reading... |
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