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Turkey says it is determined Ukraine will continue food exports despite Russia suspending its participation in a United Nations-brokered grain deal, a move that has heightened concerns for nations desperate for food aid. Russia suspended the deal on Saturday after what it said was a major Ukrainian drone attack on its naval fleet in annexed Crimea. Despite Moscow’s decision, cargo ships set sail carrying 354,500 tons of grain, the most shipments in a single day since the program began in August....

The claim comes (on Twitter, of course) from Richie Assaly, digital producer for the Toronto Star, who says he previously worked as a member of the editorial team. Assaly says “team leaders, management and curators are posting that they’ve been fired.” The move, if true, “will make Twitter noisier, more dangerous and less interesting,” he argues. Looks like Elon Musk fired his entire team of editors. These were the people who countered misinformation, built conversations through the Explore page, and helped make Twitter an unparalleled source for breaking news....

Changpeng Zhao, CEO and founder of Binance, said “a leaner workforce would make more sense” on the social networking platform. The cryptocurrency exchange has invested $500m (£441m) in Twitter as part of Musk’s $44bn buyout, which was completed last week and has since been followed by a series of changes and overhauls of the company. According to the latest reports in The Verge and Bloomberg overnight, Musk plans to cut around 3,800 jobs, with affected staff at the San Francisco-based company to be notified on Friday....

A woman in Fayetteville, Ark., arrived home to find Tyson, 32, asleep in her bed around 2 a.m., according to an arrest report shared by local news outlets. The unidentified woman said she did not know Tyson and called police to report an intruder. She reportedly told dispatchers that she may have left her front door unlocked, which is how Tyson could have gotten into her home. Responding officers said Tyson was mostly unresponsive at the scene and tried to go back to sleep after police started talking to him....

• Lire aussi : Front ou prison : en Russie, les manifestants arrêtés doivent choisir • Lire aussi : Zelensky appelle les Russes à “protester” contre la mobilisation • À lire aussi : Guerre en Ukraine : Sanctions de Moscou François Legault Ces scrutins sont qualifiés de “simulacres” par Kyiv et l’Occident et marquent une escalade majeure du conflit qui a débuté le 24 février. Dans le même temps, la mobilisation de centaines de milliers de réservistes russes se poursuit en Russie, le Kremlin cherchant à se rallier aux avancées de l’armée ukrainienne, forte en livraisons d’armes occidentales....

An official announcement will be made later on Friday. The step comes as the busy summer travel season begins and airlines are already preparing for record demand. Airlines have said that many Americans do not travel internationally due to concerns that they will be positive and will be excluded abroad. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has determined that science and data show that COVID tests before departure are no longer necessary, said the official, who declined to be named....

Die soziale Kälte der Wiener SPÖ trifft die Wiener mehr – aber es hätte auch anders gehen können. Wien (OTS) – In weiten Teilen Österreichs steigen derzeit die Fernwärmepreise. Doch während in anderen Bundesländern heimische Energieversorger überwiegend auf alternative Energieformen wie Wind, Sonne oder Wasserkraft setzen, setzt Wien Energie beim Kraftwerksbetrieb stark auf Gas. Allerdings müssen Sie es zu einem hohen Preis kaufen. Wien Energie, die vollständig in der Hand der Stadt Wien liegt, gibt diese Kosten mit einer satten Preiserhöhung von 92 % an die Wiener Bevölkerung weiter....

“The Russian occupation administration has begun the forced relocation of residents” of the Kherson region, particularly Skandovsk and Kakhovka, to Crimea or Russia, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday. Ukrainian officials and Western analysts remained wary of signs that Russia might leave the region. A Russian occupation official in southern Ukraine said on Thursday that Moscow is likely to withdraw its troops from the west bank of the Dnipro River, marking a massive retreat that, if confirmed, would be a major turning point in the war....

They were arrested in Mariupol in April during a fierce battle for control of the port city before appearing in court in the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). It is understood that they have admitted “training to carry out terrorist activities”. A third man, Moroccan national Saaudun Brahim, has also been sentenced to death. The punishments were imposed by the Supreme Court of the GDR, RIA reported. The men were found guilty of “wage-making activities and committing acts aimed at seizing power and overthrowing the constitutional order of the GDR,” the Interfax news agency quoted a court official as saying....

The Beaver Blood Moon lunar eclipse, as it’s called (occurring during November’s Full Beaver Moon) will begin at 3:02 AM. EST (0802 GMT) and will reach totality at 5:16 a.m. EST (1016 GMT) before ending at 8:56 a.m. EST (1356 GMT). The “blood moon” phase will be visible from North and Central America, as well as from Hawaii, Alaska and parts of South America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, according to NASA (opens in new tab )....

Residents are watching future rail lines take shape across Ottawa as two contractors build the existing LRT to the south, east and west. With 44 kilometers of track, 24 new stations and a total project cost of more than $4.6 billion, the Stage 2 rail project is the most expensive in the city’s history. The western leg was always slated to open last, with an initial date of 2025. It involves building 11 stations from the existing Tunney station, west to Moodie and Algonquin College, with a 2....

The Biden administration opened applications for student loan forgiveness last month and planned to begin implementing the relief this month, but those actions were halted after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit temporarily blocked the measure. Of the multiple court cases across the country, a challenge by six GOP-led states is the only one so far that has succeeded in halting the program, at least for now....

At around 11pm on Thursday, police were called to the intersection of Notre Dame Avenue and Arlington Street after a man was reportedly attacked. Police found the 55-year-old with multiple injuries on his upper body at the bus stop. He was taken to hospital and later released. Police said the suspect, who was left behind at the scene, was arrested without incident. According to the police, the police claim that the victim was waiting at the bus stop when he was attacked, “without provocation”....

The crying came, worryingly, not from a passenger but from the pilot of the Wizz Air plane and was recorded in a TikTok video that went viral. Now, with the chaos prevailing in the industry, the heads of the airlines and the airports seem to be victims of the circumstances of both passengers and pilots. So where are the problems – and will they be resolved in time for the summer?...

Debi Johnstone recalled the words as she took the stand on the opening day of McCallum’s public trial on Monday. Johnstone is the woman McCallum is accused of running over his leg with her car after an argument in a Save-On-Foods parking lot on Sept. 4, 2021 — an allegation the 66-year-old denied. In peppered testimony, the pensioner admitted she and McCallum had an “unpleasant” exchange in a “heated conversation” as she sat in her open Mustang and he stood nearby....

Final thoughts Well, that was a game of crackerjack baseball. That’s not an adjective I’ve ever used to describe something before, but it feels fitting for what has been a one-series game for much of its run. The Phillies kept coming right to the edge of the lead, but the breaks continued to benefit the Astros. It’s a rough outcome for a Phillies team that looked to have the lead in the series after their Game 3 triumph....

No one was injured during the incident at the Harmondsworth detention center near Heathrow Airport, but power was still out just before 9am on Saturday, the department said. The Home Office initially claimed that “a group of prisoners left their rooms” and entered a yard “armed with various weapons”, but later retracted this claim. HM Police, Fire and Prisons services are at the scene. A Home Office spokesman added: “There has been a power outage at Harmondsworth immigration removal center and work is currently underway to resolve this issue....

EXTRAORDINAIRE – La situation est inacceptable. Le président du Samu-Urgences de France, François Braun, accusé par Emmanuel Macron de « mission spectacle » pour soins non programmés, a affirmé ce jeudi 9 juin que « les urgences ne peuvent plus être un bar ouvert ». D’une part, plus de 21 millions de passages aux urgences (en 2019), le double en vingt ans. En revanche, 120 services ont été contraints de réduire le spoiler cet été faute de soignants, selon le Samu-Urgences de France....