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Ukrainian president says Russian forces continue to focus operations in direction of city of Pokrovsk after two villages were capturedUkrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said fighting in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine is “extremely challenging” and that Russian forces have continued to focus most of their offensive operations in the area in the direction of Pokrovsk.Zelenskiy said in his evening address:It is extremely challenging in the Donetsk directions, and it is in the Pokrovsk direction that there have been the biggest number of Russian assaults these weeks – the most intense enemy attacks are precisely there.Everyone who stops these

Science secretary Peter Kyle says national resilience suffered ‘catastrophically’ under ToriesThe UK science secretary has warned Britain is “desperately exposed” to cyber-threats and the upheaval of another pandemic, claiming that national resilience suffered “catastrophically” under the previous government.Deep public spending cuts under the austerity programme diminished the NHS and other local and national services, and hampered pandemic preparedness exercises, Peter Kyle told the Guardian, while too little was done to address rising cybersecurity risks. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/29/uk-desperately-exposed-to-cyber-threats-and-pandemics-says-minister Author : Ian Sample Science editor Publish date : 2024-07-29 06:00:16 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

In today’s newsletter: The US vice-president has changed the race for the White House – but pitfalls still lie ahead• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. In the week since Kamala Harris became the de facto Democratic nominee, the contest for the presidency has been transformed. Money has poured in, the polls have tightened, and the campaign is about something fundamentally different. The same Democrats who were almost catatonic over Joe Biden’s chances of victory because so many voters saw him as too old to do the job now believe that Donald Trump can be defeated.But

Use of the motorised luggage which is popular in parts of Asia, require safety equipment and a driver’s licence, according to Japanese lawAs record numbers of tourists flock to Japan to take advantage of the weakness of the Japanese yen, some are running into trouble with authorities thanks to the growing popularity of motorised, rideable suitcases.Two major Japanese airports have already asked travellers not to ride motorised suitcases within their facilities, according to Kyodo news agency, while police are urging domestic retailers to warn customers of the strict laws concerning their use. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/29/japan-rideable-luggage-suitcases-ban-crack-down-tourism Author :

Airwars says move is first step in effort to identify every civilian killed during Israeli military campaignA conflict monitor has named nearly 3,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza in almost 350 separate incidents during the first 17 days of the war – the first step in an exercise aimed at identifying every civilian killed during the Israeli military campaign.Though the 2,993 victims named are a fraction of the overall death total of 39,000 cited by the Palestinian ministry of health in Gaza, Airwars, the group involved, says the effort shows it is possible to name those killed while a war is