"It's humid inside and people take their clothes out to dry": How the life is going in one of the bomb shelters in Krasny Liman

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❗"No, out of the question": Hillary Clinton says she won't run for president in 2024. She says she expects Joe Biden to run for re-election: "First of all, I expect Biden to run. He certainly intends to run. It would be very disruptive to challenge that."

"With surgical precision": Russia’s MoD has published footage of combat work of Iskander-M complexes

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Zaporozhye region has received humanitarian aid from the Russian Emergencies Ministry

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A terror alert was triggered in the Vatican City ahead of Pope Francis’ Sunday prayer: an Albanian citizen crashed his car through the security barriers near St Peter's Square.

The 39-year-old suspect ignored orders to stop at a police checkpoint, giving way to a car chase. He soon hit a police vehicle and was surrounded and restrained by officers who used a taser.

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📸 Actor Ben Stiller has been spotted in Ukraine's Lvov. Stiller is a goodwill ambassador for UNHCR, as is Angelina Jolie, who visited Lvov at the end of April

Russian volunteers has arrived in the regional intensive care hospital in Mariupol to congratulate doctors and the hospital personnel on the Health Worker Day

Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights group pro-choice protesters have gathered outside Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home, dressed in pants appearing to be soaked with blood and holding baby doll toys. According to the activists, the dolls represent forced births and they "aren’t protesting to change the minds of women-hating fascists", but calling on "the pro-choice majority to get in the streets".

Protests of pro-choice and pro-life activists have intensified in the US since the beginning of May, when media reported on the leak of a draft opinion distributed by Supreme Court justices in favour of ending the federal constitutional right to abortion

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⚡Oscar-winning Canadian director Paul Haggis arrested in southern Italy for alleged 'sexual assault'

🏊A separate 'open category' competitions for transgender swimmers to be opened, the international federation sports federation for swimming (FINA) has announced

FINA said that from now on transgender women can only compete in women's races if they have completed their transition by the age of 12.

This means that Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer who broke several US women's national records this year, will be banned from competing against women.

At the moment, there are no restrictions for the participation of transgender athletes in men's competitions.

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🚤 Boats collide in Florida, 2 dead, 10 rescued

Two people were killed and 10 others had to be rescued when their boats collided at night near Key Biscayne in South Florida, the US Coast Guard and local authorities say. The Coast Guard said a person involved in the collision notified the agency of the crash around 10:30 pm Friday night.

Two bodies were recovered in the ensuing rescue operation, one by the Coast Guard Station Miami Beach and another by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. Nine other survivors were sent to another hospital for treatment, authorities said. The collision is under investigation by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

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🏎 Verstappen’s first Canadian GP win

Max Verstappen cruised to his sixth Formula One win of the season after holding off a late challenge from Carlos Sainz Jr. and pulling away in a fairly easy Sunday drive in the Canadian Grand Prix. Verstappen started from pole position at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and the Dutchman had no trouble clearing Fernando Alonso, who earned his first front-row start in a decade then joked he’d attack Verstappen in the first turn to steal the victory.

Mercedes had a tremendous rebound from its season-long struggles, which included a terrible Friday practice, as seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton scored his first podium since the season-opening race in March. Verstappen, has now won six of the first nine races in his noscript defense season.

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🍎 Maryland Apple store’s union vote marks latest in labor drives

Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Saturday, a union said, joining a growing push across US retail, service and tech industries to organize for greater workplace protections.

The Apple retail workers in Towson, Maryland, voted 65-33 to seek entry into the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the union’s announcement said. The vote could not immediately be confirmed with the National Labor Relations Board, which would have to certify the outcome.

Many unionization efforts have been led by young workers in their 20s and even in their teens. Organizers have worked to establish unions at companies including Amazon, Starbucks, Google parent company Alphabet and outdoors retailer REI.

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Drake Surprise Releases a New Album, ‘Honestly, Nevermind’

Drake surprised fans with news of his seventh studio album noscriptd “Honestly, Nevermind,” which marks the 35-year-old rapper’s first substantial push into a new genre: house music. Across social media, the album quickly ignited discourse over the genre, with many people expressing astonishment that a rapper would gamble on a genre not typically associated with hip-hop or Black audiences.  

According to a press release, the record became the biggest dance album in Apple Music history, breaking the record for first-day streams worldwide. Drake held the record for the biggest album in Apple Music history by first-day streams worldwide with 2021’s "Certified Lover Boy."

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📱 Telegram’s Premium subnoscription is here and it costs $4.99 / month

Some of its bigger draws including faster downloads and a larger maximum file upload size of 4GB (rather than the standard 2GB). Premium subscribers will also get double the limits imposed on standard users. Instead of joining up to 500 channels, subscribers are capped at 1,000 channels. The same goes for other features on Telegram — subscribers can create 20 chat folders with 200 chats each, save up to 10 stickers, pin up to 10 chats, and add a total of four accounts to Telegram instead of three. Premium users also get to have longer bios with a link.

Durov also promised that Telegram won’t stop developing features for free users either, which the platform appears to be following through on so far.

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‼️ Police: 'multiple'
people shot in Washington, DC,
officer among injured

🏌️ Matt Fitzpatrick wins US Open

Matt Fitzpatrick conquered The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, this weekend to win the US Open, the first major victory of his career. The 27-year-old Englishman had won seven times on the European Tour, but had yet to win a professional event held on US soil.

Fitzpatrick hit 17 greens in regulation. He is the second player from England over the past 50 years to win the US Open. While it was Fitzpatrick's first win as a professional on US soil, it wasn't actually his first win at The Country Club. Back in 2013, Fitzpatrick won the US Amateur on the very same course. On Sunday, he was able to do it again, this time taking home a $3.15 million check in the process.

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💲 NAACP says it's Biden's 'turn now' after Pharrell Williams surprised 5 HBCU students, recent grads by paying off their student loan debt Williams made the announcement during an NAACP panel held in Washington, DC, on the topic of the Black student debt crisis. This panel was part of William's Something in the Waters Festival, held in the nation's capital in celebration of Juneteenth.  Black students are not only more likely to need to take on debt for school, but Black college graduates are also nearly five times as likely to default on their loans than their white peers. NAACP President Derrick Johnson called on President Joe Biden to address student loan debt for all Americans. A final decision on a forgiveness plan is expected to be announced in July or August, which is when the pause on student-loan payment is set to expire after August 31.

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