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1 UKRAINE Toll on both sides as Kyiv retakes villages in south Heavy casualties are being endured by Ukrainian and Russian forces, British military intelligence said, as Kyiv on Monday celebrated the liberation of an eighth settlement in the south of the country, two weeks into its offensive. Losses among Russian troops were said by British officials to be at their highest since the peak of March during the battle for Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, with Ukraine claiming to have killed or injured 4,600 soldiers. The progress of Ukraine’s forces in the east and south has been slow, with much of the heavy western weaponry and new brigades yet to be committed to battle. Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, Hanna Maliar, announced that, with the capture of the village of…

CONSERVATIVES Commons votes to approve damning privileges report Conservative infighting over Boris Johnson misleading the House of Commons about Partygate reached bitter new heights on Monday night, with his supporters being told to hang their heads in shame. Johnson faced being blocked from obtaining special access to parliament after being rounded on by furious Tory MPs in an attempt to “restore faith” in democracy. An overwhelming majority backed the privileges committee’s conclusion that Johnson committed five contempts of parliament, including misleading the Commons and the cross-party group investigating him. Only seven MPs voted against the report, dwarfed by the 354 who voted for it. Rishi Sunak was absent for the debate along with other senior Cabinet ministers, and was accused by Labour MPs of having “run away”. Downing Street said…

The mass drowning of refugees heading from Libya for Italy as their large boat capsized off the coast of Greece underlines Libya’s continuing power vacuum and the inability of its divided leaders to deliver on their promises to stem the profitable people-smuggling trade. It is striking that the ship sailed from the eastern port of Tobruk, a city where local leaders have mounted a campaign against illegal migration. On 4 May, the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, granted Libya’s strongman in the east, Khalifa Haftar, a meeting in Rome at which she offered to invest in Libya’s east – the country has been divided into a rival east and west since 2015 – in return for action on the smugglers. Haftar appeared to try to deliver on his deal. On…

Gennadiy may be wounded in hospital, but he is still participating in Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive. In a crowded ward at a medical facility in Dnipro, the commander pulls out his mobile phone to reveal live footage of green fields and tree lines in a newly contested part of the front. Although he was hurt in an artillery strike overnight between 2 and 3 June, as Ukraine’s attacks on the southern Zaporizhzhia front stepped up, Gennadiy, 51, says that when required he watches the phone screen to help soldiers on the ground. “I’m still working, still correcting artillery fire,” he said. “This is not just so I can watch.” It is extraordinarily strange to be staring at live warfare, handheld. The images are deceptively undramatic: a camera restlessly scanning, focusing in…

The wealthy village of Bolton Percy is a tiny North Yorkshire idyll with one bus and where the post office is open only once a week, during a four-hour window on Wednesdays. It is a place where residents have neat gardens and fancy cars, and the friendly local church, which will celebrate its 600th birthday next year, is the social hub. In other words, it is exactly the kind of place the Tories could normally rely on for an abundance of support. With the Selby and Ainsty MP, Nigel Adams – a Boris Johnson ally – having resigned this month after being snubbed for a peerage, a byelection has been triggered. It should be cut and dried. Since the constituency was created in 2010, it has been solidly Conservative. Adams…

Danny Paruru crouches at the water’s edge, letting it wash over his hand. Behind him, sharp peaks mark where the lands of his tribe, Te Whakatōhea, once stretched before they were forcibly taken by the crown. In front of him the surface of the estuary ripples. “Thirty-odd years ago our kaumā–tua [elders] were realising that we were deemed to be landless people – that we didn’t have a lot of land left, after the lands were confiscated. So they turned their eyes to the ocean,” he said. “Places around this area provided our sustenance and our survival, over many generations.” That ocean, too, is changing. On this shoreline, the tribe still digs for pipi, a native clam. But other food sources, such as cockles and mussels, have been shrinking or…

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, wrapped up a rare trip to Beijing where he met President Xi Jinping, concluding a high-stakes visit aimed at stabilising spiralling relations. Speaking at a press briefing in Beijing before his departure on Monday, Blinken said he had “an important conversation” with Xi during the 35-minute encounter and stressed it was the responsibility of both countries to find a path forward. “In every meeting, I stressed that direct engagement and sustained communication at senior levels is the best way to responsibly manage our differences and ensure competition does not veer into conflict,” Blinken said. “I heard the same from my Chinese counterparts.” “The two sides have had candid and in-depth discussions,” Xi said at the start of the meeting at the Great Hall…

PAIN IS LIKE A MEMORY, a path reinforced every time we walk down it. As such, it’s quite possible that writing this is an act of self-harm. It’s not just that it hurts to write, although it does; it’s that when I started thinking about this piece, reading around it, even jotting down notes, I felt the pain in my forearms flare up again, and for a month or two I considered calling it off. My physiotherapist would call that “avoidance”. I would call it “learning from experience”, given that it was writing that got me here in the first place. It was late in the summer of 2020 when I started to develop an aching in my forearms: first the left, and a few days later, the right; a…

Round the cycle turns. As millions are driven from their homes by climate disasters, the extreme right exploits their misery to extend its reach. As the extreme right gains power, climate programmes are shut down, heating accelerates and more people are driven from their homes. If we don’t break this cycle soon, it will become the dominant story of our times. A recent paper in the scientific journal Nature identifies the “human climate niche”: the range of temperatures and rainfall within which human societies thrive. We have clustered in the parts of the world with a climate that supports our flourishing, but in many of these places the niche is shrinking. Already, around 600 million people have been stranded in inhospitable conditions by global heating. Current global policies are likely…

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A little after 8am last Friday, Fadi, a Palestinian, freshly arrived from Amsterdam, joined the throng of aid workers, activists and journalists gathered around a warehouse in Kalamata’s port. The 29-year-old was on a mission. “I thought I had spotted my little brother Mohammed among pictures of the [shipwreck’s] survivors,” said the Syrian-born chef, who has lived in the Dutch city for the past decade. “I knew he had gone to Libya to board the boat, so, praying to Allah he was still alive, I decided to get on a flight.” Within hours of arriving in this port town, Fadi’s wish would come true in an electrifying moment caught on camera. “He had a photograph of his brother and wanted to talk,” said Themis Kanellopoulos, a Greek MEGA TV reporter who…

GEORGIA As leaders court Russia, voters dream of EU Page 20 → It became known as the “basement strategy”. As the corona-virus pandemic raged outside, presidential candidate Joe Biden addressed the nation from a makeshift studio under his Delaware home, avoiding off-the-cuff gaffes and allowing rival Donald Trump to self-destruct. Three years on, with the US mostly back to a new version of normal, Biden knows speeches on glitchy Zoom calls or in empty auditoriums will not be enough. The president, who at 80 is the oldest in US history, is facing his most gruelling campaign. Last Saturday he kicked off his re-election bid in Philadelphia, in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania. Biden addressed trade union supporters, a vital part of his coalition, and touted economic achievements, including…

Mild signs of a potential willingness to modernise have been observed in some of central London’s establishment clubs in recent weeks, led by the announcement that, after 166 years, women will be allowed to become members of Pratt’s. The decision has been met mostly with resigned acceptance by the club’s membership, which includes at least a dozen MPs, and has triggered renewed discussion of possible reform at the hardcore handful of gentlemen’s clubs that refuse to admit women. Members of the Beefsteak, another men-only dining club populated with MPs, actors and judges, believe it is likely it will be obliged to change its rules. A renewed drive by female campaigners was launched this month to persuade members of the Garrick, including Michael Gove and the actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Hugh…

Mona Crowston had only minutes to gather her belongings before the wildfire that had been burning for days at the edge of her town swept down towards her house. The 84-year-old already had a suitcase packed, just in case. “I made sure to tidy up what I could before we left. The last thing I wanted was to return home and have a messy room,” she said. She and her husband left on 30 June 2021. Months later, when they finally returned to the site of their home of 47 years, all they found was charred and crumbled foundations. Most of the Canadian town of Lytton had also been destroyed. This year’s spring wildfire season has been the worst on record in Canada, with more than 5m hectares of land…

GEORGE MONBIOT The far-right warms to climate chaos Page 48 → Last Friday, a man who leaked classified national security documents to the press died at the age of 92 at his home in the San Francisco Bay Area. Last Tuesday, a man who took classified documents to his Miami home that was also a resort frequented by a wide array of characters, refused to surrender them, and unleashed a flock of lies about the whole business, was arraigned on 37 felony charges. We know that Daniel Ellsberg leaked documents in the hopes of stopping a war, preventing deaths, and exposing a government that had through five presidencies lied about that war in Vietnam to justify and perpetuate it. We don’t know exactly why Donald J Trump absconded from the…

Nairobi’s bustling Kenyatta market is an unlikely place to hear classical music. Yet playing earlier this month in front of stalls where butchers roast meat and hairdressers compete over heads to braid was a very surprising busker: the distinguished cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Playing Over the Rainbow alongside Kenyan percussionist Kasiva Mutua, he matched his cello to her beats in a truly eclectic mix. Ma’s broad artistic sensibilities made weaving together the diverse musical traditions of drum and cello seem like a natural fit. “It was symbolic to introduce [classical] music to the crowd through something they know and understand,” said Mutua. “Africans understand rhythm to their core.” Ma’s pop-up market performance typified much of his visit to the city – a daring, headfirst dive into the realities of Kenyan artists.…

When Nazi officers arrived at the home of 15-year-old Hannah Pick-Goslar, she had her suitcase ready. They had sealed off her neighbourhood, blocking roads and stationing soldiers on every bridge. Early in the morning, loudspeakers blared in the streets, telling Jewish residents to prepare for departure. Then a member of the green police, the wing of the German army tasked with policing civilians, banged on the Goslars’ door and told them: “You have 20 minutes to pack your things.” The title of Pick-Goslar’s memoir, My Friend Anne Frank, is misleading and – however unintentionally – does it a disservice. This is not really the story of Frank, who achieved posthumous fame through the diary she kept while in hiding, even though, as a neighbour and close friend of the author,…

What’s the best way to store and use up spices? Grace, Shef field, England, UK We all have those trusty spices that we reach for time and again to bring flavour – Heat! Sweetness! Sourness! – to a dish, but there are also those that lurk at the back, unused and unloved. To prevent Grace’s cupboard from becoming a Schwartz history museum (other brands are available), she’s right to ask how best to store them. While supermarkets sell spices in jars, it’s best not to keep them this way. “They’ll lose their potency, which is really the singular point of a spice,” says Rachel Walker, the founder of Rooted Spices and co-author, alongside Esther Clark, of The Modern Spice Rack. Instead, store them in an opaque container out of direct…

The deaths of as many as 500 people feared drowned in the sinking of an overcrowded fishing boat off southern Greece have once more thrown a spotlight on the world’s deadliest migratory route – and Europe’s failure to tackle one of its greatest challenges. Since the International Organization for Migration (IoM) launched its missing migrants project in 2014, an estimated 27,000 people trying to reach Europe have been recorded as dead or disappeared while trying to cross the Mediterranean. More than 21,000 of those deaths have occurred on the so-called central Mediterranean route from Libya or Tunisia north to Greece or Italy, a crossing that can take several days and is often made in unseaworthy, dangerously overloaded boats. Most migrants to Greece now cross from Turkey, either reaching the eastern…

Donald Trump is contending with criminal charges for violating the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice but the immediate political damage has been felt most acutely not by the defendant but his other rivals for the Republican presidential nomination. Maddeningly for Trump’s rivals, the biggest winner politically – so far at least – of the indictment against Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents case appears to be Trump himself, who has been the singular focus of news coverage and embraced as a martyr by much of the wider Republican party. Advisers for other campaigns have privately complained that Trump has sucked up so much oxygen that their candidates cannot get attention unless they agree to discuss Trump and his chances of beating them as though they were any other political commentator.…

This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, titled Laboratory for the Future, was inaugurated on the same day that the leaders of the G7 nations met in Hiroshima. Both signalled the end of globalisation, and both displayed the promise and perils of a fragmenting world. Of all the arts, architecture is the most globally homogenising. Erecting copycats of Paris and London was a staple of European colonial policy. Today, the same glass-and-steel tower blocks dot interchangeable financial capitals the world over. But the 2023 Biennale’s curator, the Ghanaian-Scottish architect Lesley Lokko, is using the event to critically reassess that one-world narrative. “The dominant voice,” Lokko writes in the exhibition introduction, “has historically been a singular, exclusive voice, whose reach and power ignores huge swathes of humanity.” Brazil’s show centres on unearthing the…

It is hard to escape the noise of the TT festival. On a small, quiet island, the sudden arrival of tens of thousands of visitors on their motorbikes is a shock to the system. Many residents look forward to June when the island bursts into life. The pubs probably make more in a fortnight than the rest of the year. But many islanders loathe the chaos and inconvenience. Having no interest in the bikes myself, the TT means something altogether different, for it coincides with one of the greatest wildlife phenomena to be found in the British Isles: the flowering of our traditional hay meadows. Haymaking is among the most ancient forms of agriculture. Dry grass cut in late summer will preserve itself and get a flock or herd through…

Across 1 Picture king amongst group of pieces leading to check (6) 4 Attractive woman’s detailed incantation (6) 9 Strained sound of rebuke muffling answer (4) 10 American trips taking in crumbling hall on an irregular basis (2,3,5) 11 Reveal hesitation about nationalist question (6) 12 Extinct bird mentioned in dreary lecture (5,3) 13 Power gap filled by party leader (9) 15 Rumour I ignored – it’s not sweet (4) 16 Large organ broke? Not quite (4) 17 Ministers not entirely caring about first one leaving wild party (9) 21 Fine translation of ‘sucre’ to indicate this? (8) 22 Children’s programme taking over core of series (6) 24 It’s used for lifting things without tipping? (4,6) 25 Tack holding rear of carpet is a bother (4) 26 Cracker show held…

Across 1 Indication that something should be taken away (5,4) 8 Expensive in France (4) 9 Serious lapse – it’s normal (anag) (6,3) 10 Smile broadly (4) 13 Single (5) 15 Moving part on a vehicle? (6) 16 In the region of (6) 17 Occasional extravagances (6) 19 Contest (6) 20 Gap (5) 21 One gets caught after taking it (4) 24 Financial controller (9) 25 Honour – Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded 1645 (4) 26 Scope (9) Down 2 Click on it to open a computer program (4) 3 Plotting (something) (2,2) 4 Salty – as Nile (anag) (6) 5 Pig or fowl? (6) 6 Immediately after that point (9) 7 Gin-reared (anag) – British soldier (9) 11 Somewhere to wait (9) 12 Gross (9) 13 Parts (of a whole)…