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Your Monday Briefing: Russian Forces Attack Evacuees
Good morning. We’re protecting sustained shelling in Ukraine, China’s new financial plan and the fallout of a terrorist assault on a mosque in Pakistan.
Russian assaults halt evacuations
As Russian forces continued shelling Ukraine, at the least three folks — a mom and her kids — have been killed exterior Kyiv as they tried to get to security. For the second straight day, the authorities known as off an evacuation from the besieged port metropolis of Mariupol.
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Russian forces have been struggling to advance on a number of fronts. The Ukrainian navy stated that it was efficiently defending its place in fierce combating north of Kyiv and that troops have been additionally holding again Russians from the east, the place President Vladimir Putin’s forces slowed down in clashes round an airport.
Households are being torn aside. Some Ukrainians are discovering that their Russian family, hopped up on authorities misinformation, don’t imagine there’s a warfare. Others are splitting: Wives flee whereas husbands are compelled to remain and combat, which some Ukrainian ladies known as “a bit of loss of life.”
Flights: Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, repeated his requires NATO to implement a no-fly zone, regardless of bipartisan opposition from U.S. lawmakers and reluctance from European allies. On Saturday, Putin stated that any nations that imposed one could be thought-about enemy combatants. The U.S. is discussing how one can provide Polish Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine.
China’s new financial plan
China detailed a plan to increase its economic system, labeling stability as its “prime precedence.” The modifications come because the nationwide chief, Xi Jinping, is poised to assert a brand new time period in energy.
Regardless of world uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic and warfare in Ukraine, China’s leaders sought to undertaking confidence and calm. The annual authorities work report delivered on Saturday didn’t even point out Russia’s invasion.
The implicit message seemed to be that China might climate European turbulence — and give attention to maintaining its folks content material and employed earlier than a Communist Celebration assembly within the fall, when Xi is more and more sure to increase his time in energy.
Particulars: Beijing is asking for heavy authorities spending and lending. Social welfare and schooling outlays are each set to extend about 10 % this 12 months. China’s navy price range will develop by 7.1 % to about $229 billion — a sign that Beijing is making ready for an more and more harmful world.
Home coverage: The plan means that China is prioritizing financial progress, with an enlargement objective of “round 5.5 %,” over home client spending. Beijing has been attempting to maneuver the economic system away from dependence on debt-fueled infrastructure and housing building.
ISIS bombs Pakistani mosque
The Islamic State’s regional affiliate, Islamic State Khorasan, or ISIS-Okay, claimed accountability for bombing a Shiite mosque in Peshawar, in northwestern Pakistan. The assault killed at the least 63 folks and wounded practically 200 others.
Pakistani police stated on Saturday that they’d recognized the suicide bomber and the community behind the assault. ISIS-Okay and Pakistani safety officers each stated the bomber was an Afghan nationwide.
The Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim terrorist group that considers Shiites heretics, has claimed a number of earlier assaults in Pakistan. This was the largest and deadliest but, and one of many worst terrorist assaults in Pakistan in years.
Background: ISIS-Okay shaped in Afghanistan in 2015 and opened a Pakistan chapter in 2019. Safety officers say the group continues to function from Afghanistan however has been displaced by the Afghan Taliban. Officers imagine that about 1,600 of its fighters escaped when the Taliban overran a jail exterior Kabul in August.
Different bombings: Final fall, the group carried out bombings at Shiite mosques in Afghanistan, killing and wounding dozens.
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An Auden poem, in plain sight
Elisa Gabbert has been studying “Musée des Beaux Arts,” a 1938 poem by W.H. Auden, for greater than 20 years. The poem is impressed by a portray by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “Panorama With the Fall of Icarus.”
In Bruegel’s masterpiece, a ploughman doesn’t seem to note Icarus, half-submerged within the sea after his fall from the solar. “The portray is a touch upon the fraught relation between consideration and catastrophe — as is the poem: One thing’s solely a catastrophe if we discover it,” Elisa writes in a detailed studying of it for The Occasions.
“The message appears easy sufficient,” she continues, “however the poem is filled with riches, hidden particulars that you simply may miss if, like a farmer along with his head down — or a distracted museumgoer — you weren’t trying on the edges.”
Then, Elisa reveals us these edges. She takes us by way of different hidden works referenced within the poem earlier than drilling down into the construction of the piece. She additionally places the meditation on struggling in context — regardless of his indifferent tone, Auden wrote the poem whereas Europe was on the point of warfare.
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That’s it for right now’s briefing. See you subsequent time. — Amelia
P.S. Sabrina Tavernise will be a part of “The Every day” because the present’s second host, alongside Michael Barbaro.
The newest episode of “The Every day” is on U.S. primaries and redistricting fights.
You may attain Amelia and the workforce at briefing@nytimes.com.
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Continued rain postpones skateboarding, delays tennis at Paris Olympics
PARIS (AP) — Rain that fell throughout the opening ceremony continued on Saturday, leading to postponements and delays at the Paris Olympics.
The first event of the skateboarding competition, men’s street skateboarding, was postponed from Saturday until Monday because of the showers. The women’s event is scheduled for Sunday.
Skateboarding is held at the outdoor venue of La Concorde Urban Park in Paris. World Skate, the sport’s governing body, cited adverse weather conditions for the move.
Rain has been one of the big stories early in the Games after constant showers and occasional downpours served as the backdrop for the opening ceremony. As of 10 a.m. CEST (4 a.m. ET), much of the rain had cleared from the area.
The start of play in the scheduled tennis matches on the 10 smaller courts at Roland Garros was delayed because of rain, but action was able to get going in the two main stadiums, which both have retractable roofs. That included the match at Court Philippe Chatrier between No. 1 Iga Swiatek of Poland – who has won four of the past five French Open titles at the same site being used for the Olympics – and Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania.
Sunny skies are expected to return to the area Sunday, but the rain could have a lasting impact on the Paris Games.
The rain could threaten the water quality for swimming in the Seine when the triathlon begins Tuesday. Tony Estanguet, head of the Paris 2024 organizers, addressed the situation at the daily press briefing.
“We are still looking at the forecast for the coming days,” Estanguet said. “They expect that it will rain till 5 p.m. today and then it should be fine.
“The team is very confident that it will be possible to have the (triathlon) swimming part in the Seine.”
The triathlon begins with the men’s event Tuesday, swimming from 8 a.m. CEST (2 a.m. ET) at the Alexander III bridge next to Grand Palais.
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AP Sports Writers Graham Dunbar and Steve Whyno and AP Tennis Writer Howard Fendrich contributed to this story.
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AP Summer Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games
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Australian surfer saved by off-duty police officer after shark ripped off leg, doctors hope to reattach it
Kai McKenzie, 23, was surfing off New South Wales in Australia when he was attacked by a shark, New South Wales police said.
“Clinging to life, he was able to catch a wave back to the beach,” a fundraising site set up for McKenzie said. “A retired police officer used his dog’s lead as a tourniquet to stem the bleeding before the victim could be airlifted to hospital.”
Amazingly, McKenzie’s leg washed up on the beach after the attack and doctors are hoping to be able to reattach it.
McKenzie has undergone surgery and remains in critical but stable condition, according to ABC News Australia and the fundraising site.
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Luke Short, who makes McKenzie’s surfboards, told ABC they had all hoped “we heard it wrong.”
“It’s amazing that he’s survived,” he added.
His surf team RAGE called McKenzie the “toughest person we know.”
“Sending love to @kai_mckenzie the youngest RAGE boy on the team and the toughest person that we know,” the team wrote on Instagram this week. “Yesterday he was attacked by a shark and has lost his leg while surfing in Port Macquarie. He has been through a lot breaking his back last year, he never once complained always just got on with doing what he loved as soon as possible. He is an inspiring person. The whole rage gang loves you man and we will see you soon.”
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Kirran Mowbray of NSW Ambulance called McKenzie “courageous” during a 7News Sydney on-air broadcast. “He turned around, caught a wave into shore.”
She added that the off-duty officer “used the lead off a dog as a tourniquet to wrap around the young man’s leg and essentially saved his life.”
Kevin Young, vice president of Bite Club, a shark attack survivors club, told the broadcast: “And I know he lost a leg and they packed it with ice and they’re going down to try to reattach it. That just blows my brain that that might be possible.”
Mid North Coast Police Chief Insp. Stuart Campbell said they would be working to try to find out what type of shark bit McKenzie.
Port Macquarie Hastings Lifeguards later reported the beach had reopened after the attack.
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Italy's Via Appia enters the Unesco World Heritage List
With sixty recognised sites, Italy is the country with the highest number of UNESCO heritage sites.
Italy is at the top of the Unesco World Heritage list. The World Heritage Committee, meeting in New Delhi at its 46th session, has decided to add the ‘Via Appia Regina Viarum’ on the World Heritage List- becoming the 60th Italian site to be recognised.
The list also includes the Ensemble Schwerin residence in Germany, the Niah National Park in Malaysia, the archaeological area of Al-Faw in Saudi Arabia, Constantin Brâncuși’s sculptural ensemble in Târgu Jiu and the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia, both in Romania.
Candidature of the Via Appia promoted by the Ministry of Culture
The candidature was promoted for the first time directly by the Ministry of Culture, which coordinated all the stages of the process and prepared the necessary documentation for the application.
The history of the Via Appia
About 650 kilometres long, the ancient Via Appia goes through central and southern Italy. It was the first of Rome ‘s great roads built using innovative techniques; true masterpieces of civil engineering that complemented the natural roads and are the most enduring monuments of Roman civilisation.
The route was inaugurated in 312 B.C. by the censor Appius Claudius Blind to connect Rome to Capua. It was later extended to Benevento, Venosa, Taranto and Brindisi.
Conceived for military needs, the Via Appia immediately became the road of great commercial communications and primary cultural transmissions. Over time, it became the model for all subsequent Roman public roads.
“UNESCO has grasped the exceptional universal value of an extraordinary engineering work that over the centuries has been essential for trade, social and cultural exchanges with the Mediterranean and the East,” said Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano.
“This recognition adds to the extraordinary success achieved less than a year ago by Italian opera,” commented Undersecretary for Culture with responsibility for UNESCO, Gianmarco Mazzi.
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