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American pop star Britney Spears is drawing... And she’s good. To the surprise of everyone, the singer, 42, took to Instagram to show off a sketch of what appears to be a pair of iconic UK buildings: St Martin's Church and the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham. She captioned it: 'Just a pen and church!!!' Quite why she’s done this is a mystery, and it's unknown whether Britney has any connection to Birmingham. She probably based it off a photograph, as opposed to visiting the sites, as she was posting recently that she'd been on a “wild” trip to Las Vegas. Spears last visited Birmingham i...
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World War II veterans joined heads of state and others to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday. The Allied invasion, which began on 6 June, 1944, led to the defeat of the Nazis and the end of the war. The assault on the beaches began with Allied aircraft bombing German defenses in Normandy, followed by around 1,200 aircraft that carried airborne troops. As dawn broke, Allied forces started bombing German coastal defenses and shortly after that vessels began putting troops ashore on five codenamed beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. By the end of the day, nearly 160,000...
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Populist Brexit-backer Nigel Farage was doused with what appeared to be a milkshake as he kicked off his campaign on Tuesday for the Britain’s July 4 general elections. He had just left a pub in the eastern seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea where he had been speaking to the media, when a bystander threw the drink over him. Police say they have arrested a 25-year-old woman from Clacton on suspicion of assault. The populist politician and former European Member of Parliament is making his eighth attempt at winning a seat in the House of Commons. After initially saying he would not stand in the elec...
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The U.K. military chief, Admiral Antony Radakin, is "hugely confident" that Ukraine will eventually win the full-scale war despite Russia's recent tactical advances, he said in an interview with Sky News published on June 3. Moscow launched a new offensive on May 10 in the north of Kharkiv Oblast. By the end of the month, Kyiv said that Russian advance in the sector had been halted and Ukrainian troops were conducting counterattacks. Radakin insisted that Russia is "failing" despite the ongoing offensive in Kharkiv Oblast and Ukrainian forces' issues with personnel and ammunition shortages. "R...
Kyiv Independent
The U.K. military chief, Admiral Antony Radakin, is "hugely confident" that Ukraine will eventually win the full-scale war despite Russia's recent tactical advances, he said in an interview with Sky News published on June 3. Moscow launched a new offensive on May 10 in the north of Kharkiv Oblast. By the end of the month, Kyiv said that Russian advance in the sector had been halted and Ukrainian troops were conducting counterattacks. Radakin insisted that Russia is "failing" despite the ongoing offensive in Kharkiv Oblast and Ukrainian forces' issues with personnel and ammunition shortages. "R...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
The U.K. military chief, Admiral Antony Radakin, is "hugely confident" that Ukraine will eventually win the full-scale war despite Russia's recent tactical advances, he said in an interview with Sky News published on June 3. Moscow launched a new offensive on May 10 in the north of Kharkiv Oblast. By the end of the month, Kyiv said that Russian advance in the sector had been halted and Ukrainian troops were conducting counterattacks. Radakin insisted that Russia is "failing" despite the ongoing offensive in Kharkiv Oblast and Ukrainian forces' issues with personnel and ammunition shortages. "R...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
The death toll is the highest publicly acknowledged death toll from the multiple rounds of strikes carried out over the Houthi rebels' attacks on shipping. Three US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe a then-ongoing attack, described the strikes on Thursday as hitting a wide range of underground facilities, missile launchers, command and control sites, a Houthi vessel and other facilities. They called it a response to a recent surge in attacks by the Iran-backed militia group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden over the Israel-Hamas war. The US F/A-18 fighter jets in...
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The US and the UK struck 13 Houthi targets in several locations in Yemen on Thursday in response to a recent surge in attacks by the Iran-backed militia group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, three US officials said. The Houthi rebels said the airstrikes killed at least 16 people and wounded 35. According to the officials, American and British fighter jets and US ships hit a wide range of underground facilities, missile launchers, command and control sites, a Houthi vessel and other facilities. The officials spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity to provide early deta...
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Photo provided by Kensa Broadhurst and used with permission. Background image: digitized versions of a 16th century Cornish play called The Creation of the World. MS Bodl-219, 16v, lines 1525-150 (provided by Broadhurst). Europe’s linguistic diversity is increasingly reflected in online spaces, where regional and minority language speakers and their communities leverage digital tools and media to preserve, promote, and revitalize their language heritage. In this spirit, Rising Voices’ online campaign @EuroDigitalLang has been curating a rotating X (formerly Twitter) account. Here, language act...
Global Voices
Oscar-winning British actress and national treasure Dame Judi Dench has hinted at a possible retirement at age 89, after sharing an update on her health. The award-winning performer – whose work encompasses theatre, film and television – was at the annual RHS Chelsea Flower Show, during which she shared that she did not have any upcoming film projects. “No, no. I can’t even see!” she said, referring to her current affliction of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD is an eye disease that blurs central vision, a common condition that is the leading cause of vision loss for adults, which h...
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