For today, links to reports from the Associated Press, National Public Radio, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, a link to a revised article in Harper’s Magazine. — MCM
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The spotlight is on Ukraine at UN leaders’ gathering, but is there room for other global priorities? by Edith M. Lederer | AP UNITED NATIONS — The war in Ukraine and its visiting president take center stage at the United Nations this week, but developing countries will be vying for the spotlight as well in the first full-on meeting of world leaders since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted travel three years ago. The annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly . . . READ MORE . . .
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World leaders are gathering in New York for U.N. General Assembly. Reported by Michele Kelemen | NPR World leaders are taking stock of a set of ambitious goals to fight poverty and hunger around the world. Ukraine’s president is also expected to attend the general assembly. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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Ukraine retakes more territory in the east, south in counteroffensive. From Reuters. Ukraine reported today that its troops had recaptured more territory on the eastern front and advanced in the south in its military counteroffensive against Russian forces. Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said . . . READ MORE . . .
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Two people killed in overnight attacks on Ukraine — Officials. From Reuters. KYIV — Russia carried out a new wave of overnight air strikes and shelling in Ukraine, killing two elderly people and wounding several others in the southern region of Kherson, Ukrainian officials said today in various statements. In one they said Ukraine had downed 18 drones of 24 Russian drones and 17 cruise missiles overnight over the Dnipropetrovs’k, Poltava and Khmelnytskyi regions. READ MORE . . ..
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Chinese foreign minister to visit Russia for security talks. From AFP. China’s top diplomat Wang Yi will begin a four-day trip to Russia for security talks on Monday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said, the latest in a series of high-level visits and phone calls between the two sides. READ MORE . . .
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Russian Su-34 hits Ukrainian brigade’s deployment point in Kupyansk direction. From Tass. MOSCOW —The Russian Battlegroup West’s Su-34 fighter-bomber delivered a strike on a temporary deployment point of Ukraine’s 103rd territorial defense brigade in the Kupyansk direction, Battlegroup Spokesman Sergey Zybinsky told Tass. In addition . . . READ MORE . . .
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The tragedy of Volodymyr Zelensky, by Michael C. Desch | Harper’s Magazine In December 2022, Time magazine named the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky its Person of the Year. The reasons seemed obvious: When Russia invaded in February of that year, few thought that Ukraine would survive more than a week, or that its president would remain at his post in Kyiv. But . . . READ MORE with subscription . . .