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Live Updates Today is Day 26 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine rejects Russia's ultimatum in Mariupol . Russia said people could leave the besieged port city if they surrendered. About 300,000 are trapped. Strategically important Mariupol has been turned to rubble with weeks of Russian shelling, with 90 percent of buildings estimated to be damaged. Olena Zelenska , Ukraine's first lady, tells citizens in the city: "Please hold on, dear people, I beg you." In Kyiv, shelling that struck a shopping mall has reportedly left eight dead. Across Ukraine, about 10 million have fled their homes, according to the United Nations' refugee agency; about 3.4 million traveled abroad . Joe Biden will seek to rally U.S. allies in Europe this week, speaking with leaders in Germany, Britain, France, and Italy later Monday. He will travel to Belgium on Wednesday for a NATO emergency meeting about the war and then visit with Polish President Andrzej Duda in … [Read more...] about Ukraine War: Chernobyl staff rotate after working 27 days

Greg Hands makes Putin jibe at SNP over oil and gas Sign up for our news briefing, including a daily special Russia-Ukraine edition SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Russian President Vladimir Putin has sparked panic in Berlin, which gets a third of its gas from Russia , over a looming supply squeeze. Gazprom, the Kremlin-controlled gas giant, already showed last month that it is willing to slash supply volumes transiting to the country after it sent deliveries from the Nord Stream 1 pipeline plummeting. Related articles Russia's plans are now 'doomed' as Putin 'awakens sleeping giant' Lifeline for millions as goldmine of cheap, reliable and green energy While the company blamed this on a … [Read more...] about Germany braces for ‘ice-cold winter’ as Russia’s gas cut threatens to freeze millions

Germany and Nigeria are set to sign an agreement in Berlin Friday paving the way for the return of centuries-old sculptures known as the Benin Bronzes that were taken from Africa in the 19th century and displayed in German museums and elsewhere. Governments and museums in Europe and North America have increasingly sought to resolve ownership disputes over objects that were looted during colonial times. A British colonial expedition stole the bas-relief Bronzes along with a vast number of other treasures in 1897 from the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin, in what’s now southern Nigeria. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, an authority that oversees many of Berlin’s museums, announced last year that it was beginning formal negotiations on returning pieces that are in its collection. Many of them date from the 16th to the 18th centuries. The memorandum of understanding will be signed by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Culture Minister … [Read more...] about Germany, Nigeria to sign accord on return of Benin Bronzes

City banks defy Brussels to out-earn French rivals PM urged to back bid for factory at heart of Britain’s food supply FTSE 100 rises 1pc Matthew Lynn: Biden’s global tax plan is sinking rapidly — and good riddance Sign up here for our daily business briefing newsletter T he Kremlin is poised to cut future spending plans by £24bn as Western sanctions against Russia bite. Defence, technology and transport budgets are all set to be trimmed, according to Russian media. More than 1.6 trillion roubles, or £24bn, has been slashed from the Russian state budget over the next three years as Moscow braces for a two-year recession. Spending will be 557bn roubles (£8.2bn) lower in 2023 than previously approved plans, with similar cuts pencilled in for the following two years. The budget tweaks are minor compared to the size of Moscow’s overall budget but the figures are one of the first signs of the fiscal blow being dealt by the conflict in Ukraine. The 2023 … [Read more...] about Kremlin slashes spending by £24bn as West’s sanctions batter Russia

What follows is NewsGuard's summary and translation of top news stories from Russia's state TV Channel One. NewsGuard presents these stories in the order that they appear on the program. Banner of Victory hoisted in Lysychansk in Lugansk People's Republic The Banner of Victory (the official symbol of the victory of the Soviet Red Army against Nazi Germany) has been placed over Lysychansk City Hall. It's a day that tens of thousands of residents, the entire Lugansk People's Republic and the entire Donbas have been waiting for. A red banner and the Russian flag also hang in the neighboring village of Belogorovka. This means that the ring around the Ukrainian army in the region has been closed. We just have to make sure that the territory inside is safe from the enemy. Vladimir Putin confirms there is no set time frame for special operation in Donbas It is important to understand that there is no set time frame for the special military operation in the Donbas. This was … [Read more...] about Russia hoists banner of victory over Lysychansk City Hall in Lugansk

The German government on Thursday presented plans to make it easier for transgender people to formally change their name and gender, ending decades-old rules that require them to get expert assessments and a court's authorization. Under the planned “self-determination law,” adults would be able to change their first name and legal gender at registry offices without further formalities. The existing “transsexual law,” which took effect in 1981, currently requires individuals to obtain assessments from two experts whose training and experience makes them “sufficiently familiar with the particular problems of transsexualism” and then a court decision to change the gender on official documents. Over the years, Germany 's top court struck down other provisions that required transgender people to get divorced and sterilized, and to undergo gender-transition surgery. The existing law “breathes the spirit of the '70s,” Germany's minister for families, Lisa Paus, said. “At … [Read more...] about Germany plans to ease rules for formal changes of gender

Valeria Perasso Published 9 October 2017 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing In a textbook for students in Tanzania, boys are strong and athletic, while girls just look proud of their pretty frilly dresses. In a primary school reader in Haiti, pupils learn that mothers "take care of the kids and prepare the food" as fathers work "in an office". There's a Pakistani illustrated book where all politicians, authoritative and powerful, are male. In Turkey, a cartoon of a boy shows him dreaming of becoming a doctor. Meanwhile a girl imagines herself as a future bride in white gown. The list goes on - and knows no geographical boundaries. Gender bias is rife in primary school learning books and can be found, in a strikingly similar form, on every continent, various experts say. It is a problem "hidden in plain sight". "There are stereotypes of … [Read more...] about 100 Women: ‘We can’t teach girls of the future with books of the past’

In 1893, Henry James complained about the recent publication of Gustave Flaubert’s letters. The French novelist was famous for his stylistic perfectionism. What treachery, then, to publish his casual missives, ones that he hadn’t had time to labor over. To James’s regret, the new collection left Flaubert’s “every weakness exposed, every mystery dispelled, every secret betrayed.” James understood why the book existed. As he wrote, humans possess “an insurmountable desire to know .” When we love someone—a writer, a friend, a mistress—we want to know everything about them; when we hate someone, we want to know everything about them too. This desire applies to more than people: We start a novel and need to know how it ends; we feel a pain in our chest and head over to WebMD to determine its cause. If the desire to know is insurmountable, so too are the consequences. Many books, including ones by James himself, dramatize the dangers of knowledge. (Adam and Eve, meet apple.) Perhaps … [Read more...] about Eight Books in Which Ignorance Is the Point

What is it with three-word slogans about Europe ? Boris Johnson tried “Get Brexit Done”. Now Sir Keir Starmer has come up with “Make Brexit Work”. He first tried out the slogan at the CBI last November. It failed to catch fire then. Now, he has relaunched it at the Irish Embassy for the 24 th anniversary of thinktank the Centre for European Reform. The CER is the best of the new European policy thinktanks set up towards the end of the last century as Britain appeared fully to engage with Europe following the lost years of John Major’s early Tory hostility to the EU after the Maastricht Treaty. But in European capitals, no-one in politics, diplomacy or journalism has any interest in what anyone in London thinks or says on Europe. Britain is back where it was in the 1950s and 1960s, as Conservative and Labour politicians ignored developments that allowed Europe to put a century of war in the file marked “History – Do Not Reopen” and showed how market dynamics … [Read more...] about Puzzled, bored, overly negative: I read the room at Keir Starmer’s ‘Make Brexit Work’ speech

S trings of ordinary lightbulbs on white plastic flex, hung like flowers on dangling vines and festooned from the ceiling, in celebration of nothing at all. A low and vacant plinth, waiting for something to happen, with more lightbulbs glowing around its edge, a tawdry halo of expectancy. A lone and distant bird in a high white sky, a huge distance caught in the camera's eye. Blue curtains sifting blue light on to a blue mirror, veiling the world outside and spilling over the silver cellophane wrappers of thousands of sweets. Walk through a blue and white bead curtain, and think for a moment that it could almost be rain (it is called Water). This is the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, currently at the Serpentine and on billboards around London (a single unexplained image - two dented pillows side by side, rumpled sheets, the aftermath of sleep or sex). There are more works, discretely displayed in the Print Room at the V&A, and in the studios of the Royal College of Art across … [Read more...] about All this, and free sweets too