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☆ This Soy-Butter Corn Ramen Has Peak Summer Flavor
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Melissa Clark | More About Melissa Clark | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you have a bit more time, there’s also her salt and vinegar kale chips with fried chickpeas and avocado and crispy potato tacos filled with cheese and potato skins for texture. Also on your table in 20 minutes and vegetable-based (though not vegetarian) is my recipe for a cherry tomato Caesar salad. Juicier and sweeter than the usual lettuce-only version, it’s got curls of Parmesan cheese and bits of anchovy providing a savory contrast. For dessert, how about a pale green basil Key lime pie? This one is more complex than the usual Key lime confection, with its especially fruity topping of macerated fresh strawberries.

Persons: ”, “, there’s, it’s, I’ve, Yewande, It’s Organizations: YouTube Locations: Uganda

LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - King Charles will mark 400 years since William Shakespeare's plays were published in collective form on Tuesday, bringing actors and directors together to celebrate his love for the bard and a book hailed as one of the most important in English literature. Compiled by Shakespeare's friends seven years after his death, the Folio contained plays which had never before been published. Now he is sovereign, Charles, 74, wants to shape a monarchy fit for the future. He has been president of the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1991. At the Windsor Castle reception on Tuesday, actors will perform including Simon Russell Beale and Harriet Walter, two of Britain's greatest stage actors.

Persons: King Charles, William Shakespeare's, Shakespeare, Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Camilla, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant, Shakespeare's, Henry IV, Simon Russell Beale, Harriet Walter, Sarah Young, Alexandra Hudson Organizations: ROYAL, Royal Shakespeare Company, Alexandra Hudson Our, Thomson Locations: Windsor, Britain

☆ What Pan Am flight attendants did next
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Annita Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Pan Am has always been synonymous with glamor, and its flight attendants lived their opportunities to the max. Pan Am flight attendants doubled as ambassadors for the airline. Seven former Pan Am flight attendants tell us where they ended up. Memories live on, with many of us becoming members of World Wings International, a non-profit organization of former Pan Am flight attendants. Other former Pan Am flight attendants have unique ways of honoring the airline.

Persons: CNN —, Pan, ”, Camille Lewis, Camille Lewis Camille Lewis's, Camille Lewis’s, Mother Teresa, primatologist Jane Goodall, Michèle Bennett, ‘, Doc ’ Duvalier, Camille, Phillip Keene Phillip Keene, Phillip Keene, Keene, Andrew Eccles, John Gielgud, Tracey Ullman, hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, Huey Lewis, –, “, Buzz Watson, Karren Pope, Onwukwe, Susan L, Taylor, Coretta Scott King, Don King, James Brown, Linda Reynolds, Reynolds, Walter Cronkite, ” Reynolds, Joe, ” Penny Powell Penny Powell, Penny Powell, Powell, Elena Williams Elena Williams, Elena Williams, Williams, John F, Kennedy, Jr, “ I’m Elena Sugarman, ” Annita Thomas Annita Thomas, Annita Stokes Thomas I, jetsetting, I’d, Thomas, Annita Stokes Thomas, William Tolbert, Kurt Strumpf, David Hinson, David Jeffery, Oprah’s, Linda Little Freire, Pan Amer Organizations: CNN, Pan American World Airways, Boeing, Pan, LA, Hollywood, JFK, “ Clippers, JFK Jr, Metropole Hotel, Roberts, Pan Am, “, World Wings, Pan Am Museum Foundation Locations: Rome, Rio, Pakistan, Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, Caesar’s Beach, Liberia, Saudi Arabia, Haiti, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, California, London, Amsterdam, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, Dakar, Senegal, La Guardia, Pan, Maryland, Pan Am, Dhahran, Vietnam, Spanish, Chicago, Memphis, Tokyo, West, East Africa, South Georgia, JFK, Narita, Georgia

☆ Russian forces are running out of the critical radars they need to defeat Ukraine's artillery, UK intel says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Britain's defense ministry said Russian forces likely only have a few key systems remaining. For ground troops to surmount these obstacles means navigating through a slow and deadly process, and Ukrainian forces lack air superiority. "Russian ground forces survivability relies on effectively detecting Ukrainian artillery and striking against it, often with its force's own artillery," Britain's defense ministry said in a Monday intelligence update. According to an analysis by the open-source intelligence site Oryx, at least 38 Russian radars have been destroyed, damaged, or captured in Ukraine. "The priority Popov apparently gave to this problem highlights the continued centrality of artillery in the war," Britain's defense ministry said.

Persons: SERGEY SHESTAK, Ivan Popov, Popov, Caesar, Biden, Jake Sullivan Organizations: Service, High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, Getty, Arms Army, CAA, Separate Artillery Brigade, REUTERS, West, Oryx, NATO, National Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Bakhmut, Donetsk, AFP, Ukrainian, Avdiivka, Donetsk region

☆ The anti-Putin Freedom of Russia Legion says it has 'ambitious plans' for more cross-border raids into Russia, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Freedom of Russia Legion comprises defectors from the Russian army and other volunteers. The anti-Putin group launched two cross-border raids into the Belgorod region in May and June. Its commander told The Observer it's planning more attacks, bolstered by the dissolution of Wagner. "There will be a further surprise in the next month or so," the Freedom of Russia Legion's spokesperson and commander, Caesar, told the newspaper. The Freedom of Russia Legion is based in Ukraine and comprises a few hundred soldiers, who are defectors from the Russian army and other volunteers fighting against their homeland.

Persons: Wagner, Vladimir Putin, Caesar, Caesar —, —, Yevgeny Prigozhin Organizations: Russia Legion, Putin, Observer, Service, Legion, Guardian, Russian, Wagner Group Locations: Belgorod, Wall, Silicon, Russia, Ukraine, Shebekino, Al Jazeera, Moscow

[1/5] German Patriot air defence system units are seen at the Vilnius airport in Vilnius, Lithuania July 7, 2023. Many are also providing advanced air defence systems which the Baltic states lack. But for the region with total population of about 6 million people, this is not enough to sustain large militaries, invest in their own fighter jets or advanced air defence. NATO is NATO, and we feel ourselves safe because we are in NATO. He added that he feared waves of migrants at the border, or border violations, or military vehicles appearing at the border without explanation.

Persons: Janis Laizans, Joe Biden, Biden, Gitanas Nauseda, Caesar, Wagner, Edvard Rynkun, Elena Tarasevic, Col Steffen Lieb, Rustamas Liubajevas, Sabine Siebold, John Irish, William Maclean Organizations: Patriot, REUTERS, NATO, Belarus Allies, Baltic, European Union, Reuters, Wagner, Thomson Locations: Vilnius, Lithuania, Belarus, KANIUKAI, Russia, Baltic, Estonia, Latvia, Germany, Spain, France, Finland, Denmark, United Kingdom, Poland, Kaniukai, Ukraine, Kaliningrad, Russian, Minsk

☆ SPECIAL REPORT-Inside the subsea cable firm secretly helping America take on China
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Joe Brock | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +23 min

Reuters is revealing details of the Diego Garcia project and SubCom’s deepening ties with the Pentagon. SubCom’s loyalty is especially important because it is the only major U.S. subsea cable company. Rather, they carefully obscured the U.S. military component within a larger private-sector cable project, according to four subsea cable industry sources with knowledge of the arrangement. That project, known as the Oman Australia Cable, was spearheaded by SUBCO, a Brisbane-based subsea cable investment company owned by Australian entrepreneur Bevan Slattery. Once the Navy project was complete, AT&T’s submarine cable project morphed into a commercial business, the former employees said.

Persons: Diego Garcia, SubCom, Cerberus, Stephen Feinberg, Donald Trump, Feinberg, Joe Biden, Biden, Eckhard Bruckschen, They’ve, ” Bruckschen, Trump, Brad Smith, –, Mao Ning, ”, Jacob Helberg, Bevan Slattery, SUBCO’s, Richard Payne, Payne, “ We’re, ” Payne, Alex Kerska, Catherine Creese, Creese, David Coughlan, Coughlan, Slattery, SubCom’s Coughlan, Rich, Australia West Express –, John Mariano, Anthony Albanese, Albanese, Caesar, Kellee Wicker, ” Wicker Organizations: CS, SubCom, Google, Microsoft, Meta, ., U.S, Navy, Cerberus Capital Management, U.S . Navy, President’s Intelligence, Board, U.S . Navy’s Pacific Fleet, U.S . Pacific Fleet, U.S ., Pentagon, America Inc, Cable Consultancy, Reuters, Japan’s NEC Corporation, France’s Alcatel Submarine Networks, China’s HMN, U.S . Department of Defense, White, U.S . Department of Justice, Foreign, Oracle, China Economic, Security, Commission, U.S . Department of Transportation, Department of Defense, government’s, Cable Security Fleet, Oman Australia Cable, SUBCO, The, The U.S . Pacific Fleet, SUBCO’s Oman Australia Cable, Facebook, Defense, Intelligence, SubCom’s, London Stock Exchange Group, U.S . Coast Guard, Naval, Cable, Office, Tyco Telecommunications, Australian, Financial, Australia West Express, GoTo Networks, couldn’t, Netflix, AT, Tyco International, Tyco, New, Washington, Science, Technology, Wilson, “ Cables Locations: Diego, Indian, China, New Jersey, United States, U.S, Soviet, Washington, New York, Philippine, South China, Beijing, America, American, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Eatontown , New Jersey, British, Britain, Australian, Australia, Oman, Brisbane, Southeast Asia, The U.S, SUBCO’s Oman, Perth, SubCom, Guam, U.S . Pacific, Republic of Djibouti, of Africa, Djibouti, Sri Lanka, Scotland, Newfoundland

☆ Inside the subsea cable firm secretly helping American take on China
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +24 min

Persons: Diego Garcia, SubCom, Cerberus, Stephen Feinberg, Donald Trump, Feinberg, Joe Biden, Biden, Eckhard Bruckschen, They’ve, ” Bruckschen, Trump, Brad Smith, –, Mao Ning, ”, Jacob Helberg, Bevan Slattery, SUBCO’s, Richard Payne, Payne, “ We're, ” Payne, Alex Kerska, Catherine Creese, Creese, David Coughlan, Coughlan, Slattery, SubCom’s Coughlan, Rich, Australia West Express –, John Mariano, Anthony Albanese, Albanese, Caesar, Kellee Wicker, ” Wicker, Joe Brock, Mohammad Kawoosa, Edgar Su, Catherine Tai Design, Eve Watling, Marla Dickerson Organizations: CS, SubCom, Google, Microsoft, Meta, ., U.S, Navy, Cerberus Capital Management, U.S . Navy, President’s Intelligence, Board, U.S . Navy’s Pacific Fleet, U.S . Pacific Fleet, U.S ., Pentagon, America Inc, Cable Consultancy, Reuters, Japan’s NEC Corporation, France’s Alcatel Submarine Networks, China’s HMN, U.S . Department of Defense, White, U.S . Department of Justice, Foreign, Oracle, China Economic, Security, Commission, U.S . Department of Transportation, Department of Defense, government’s, Cable Security Fleet, Oman Australia Cable, SUBCO, The, The U.S . Pacific Fleet, SUBCO’s Oman Australia Cable, Facebook, Defense, Intelligence, SubCom’s, London Stock Exchange Group, U.S . Coast Guard, Naval, Cable, Office, Tyco Telecommunications, Australian, Financial, Australia West Express, GoTo Networks, couldn’t, Netflix, AT, Tyco International, Tyco, New, Washington, Science, Technology, Wilson, “ Cables Locations: Diego, Indian, China, New Jersey, United States, U.S, Soviet, Washington, New York, Philippine, South China, Beijing, America, American, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Eatontown , New Jersey, British, Britain, Australian, Australia, Oman, Brisbane, Southeast Asia, The U.S, SUBCO’s Oman, Perth, SubCom, Guam, U.S . Pacific, Republic of Djibouti, of Africa, Djibouti, Sri Lanka, Scotland, Newfoundland

☆ The circus around Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's much-vaunted fight is getting even stranger, with suggestions the bout could happen in the Colosseum
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been gearing up for a potential fight. TMZ reported Friday that Italy's culture minister told Zuckerberg it could be hosted at the Colosseum. Musk tweeted there was "some chance" the bout could take place at the legendary Roman venue. The circus around the potential fight between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk is getting even stranger — with claims it could take place in Rome's ancient Colosseum. Around the same time the report was published, Musk tweeted: "Some chance fight happens in Colosseum."

Persons: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Musk, Dana White, Python's, Brian, Augustus Caesar —, It's, Lex Fridman, White, Elton John's Organizations: TMZ, Morning, Italian, Elon, BBC, Meta, UFC

☆ Cheap Russian drone a menace to Ukrainian troops and equipment
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Max Hunder | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

[1/5] View of what appears to be a Lancet drone, in this handout still image released on January 22, 2023. Bendett said that, according to publicly available Russian sources, a Lancet drone costs approximately 3 million roubles (around $35,000). DRONE WARSUkraine has also developed strong capabilities in drones - also known as UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) - as a cost-effective way to hit Russian targets. Having fired on a Russian target, Voron said his Grad was immediately targeted by a Russian S-300 missile, which missed by about 150 metres. However, a Lancet drone then appeared in the sky and chased the Ukrainian rocket system.

Persons: Caesar, Bohdan, Samuel Bendett, Bendett, Yuriy Sak, Lancets, it's, Sak, Voron, Grad, Max Hunder, Mike Collett, White, Alex Richardson Organizations: Defence, REUTERS, Reuters, Center, New, New American Security, MISS, Drones, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Handout, DONETSK, Moscow, Ukrainian, Russian, Avdiivka, Donetsk, frontlines, New American, Russia, Iran, Soviet

☆ Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks to get honorary Oscars
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, June 27 (Reuters - Actor Angela Bassett and veteran filmmaker Mel Brooks will receive Academy Honorary Awards this year in honour of their careers and contribution to cinema, Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has said. The Academy announced it had voted to present the awards to two-time Oscar nominee Bassett and "The Producers" writer Brooks, as well as to editor Carol Littleton at its Governor Awards in November. "Across her decades-long career, Angela Bassett has continued to deliver transcendent performances that set new standards in acting. Mel Brooks lights up our hearts with his humor, and his legacy has made a lasting impact on every facet of entertainment," Yang added. Writer, director, actor and producer Brooks, who turns 98 on Wednesday, began his career writing comedy routines for Sid Caesar's TV shows.

Persons: Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks, Bassett, Brooks, Carol Littleton, Michelle Satter, Jean Hersholt, Janet Yang, Yang, Carol Littleton’s, Tina Turner, Exhale, Ramonda, Sid Caesar's, Oscar, Robin Hood, Littleton, Satter, Marie, Louise Gumuchian, Ed Osmond Organizations: Hollywood's Academy, Motion Picture Arts, Sciences, The Academy, Sundance, Jean, Governors, Sundance Institute, Academy, Thomson

☆ Square where Julius Caesar was killed opens to the public in Rome
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Rome CNN —History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new walkway on the ancient site on Tuesday. According to tradition, he died in the capital’s central Largo Argentina square - home to the remains of four temples. They are all currently below street level and up until recently could only be viewed from behind barriers close to a busy road junction. From Tuesday, visitors will be able to move through the site at ground level on the walkway and see the structures up close. Italian fashion house Bulgari funded the work at a site that was first discovered and excavated during building work in Rome in the 1920s.

Persons: Rome, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, Caesar, Brutus Organizations: Rome CNN Locations: Rome, Largo Argentina, Italian

☆ Opinion | Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Adam Mastroianni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Perhaps no political promise is more potent or universal than the vow to restore a golden age. What these political myths have in common is an understanding that the golden age is definitely not right now. I and my colleague Daniel Gilbert at Harvard have found evidence for that bug, which we recently published in the journal Nature. We first collected 235 surveys with over 574,000 responses total and found that, overwhelmingly, people believe that humans are less kind, honest, ethical and moral today than they were in the past. Respondents of all sorts — young and old, liberal and conservative, white and Black — consistently agreed: the golden age of human kindness is long gone.

Persons: Caesar Augustus, Medicis, Adolf Hitler, Xi Jinping, “ Bongbong ” Marcos Jr, Donald Trump’s “, ”, Joe Biden’s, Daniel Gilbert, pollsters, — Organizations: Harvard Locations: China, Philippines

☆ Friends, Tourists, Countrymen, See Where Julius Caesar Was Killed
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Elisabetta Povoledo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Caesar was actually assassinated at the Curia of Pompey, a large rectangular meeting hall where the Senate of Rome met occasionally. But Shakespeare “could get away with” a little artistic license, Ms. Ceci laughed. ; the Temple of Fortuna Huiusce Diei, or Fortune of the Present Day, built in the second century B.C. ; the Temple of Feronia, a goddess of fertility, built about the end of the fourth century B.C. ; and the Temple of Lares Permarini, dedicated to the protectors of navigation, or according to others to the Nymphs, and constructed in the early second century B.C.

Persons: Monica Ceci, ”, Caesar, Pompey, Augustus, Shakespeare, Ceci, “, Ms, Irina Lumsden, They’ve, Fortuna Organizations: Curia, Fortuna Huiusce Diei Locations: Rome, Melbourne, Australia, Fortuna Huiusce, Lares

☆ Rome to open ancient square where Julius Caesar was killed
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/5] General view shows the archaeological area of Largo Argentina a day before it reopens to the public after restoration, in Rome, Italy June 19, 2023. REUTERS/Remo CasilliROME, June 19 (Reuters) - History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new walkway on the ancient site on Tuesday. According to tradition, he died in the capital's central Largo Argentina square - home to the remains of four temples. Italian fashion house Bulgari funded the work at a site that was first discovered and excavated during building work in Rome in the 1920s. The area - close to where Caesar is supposed to have exclaimed "Et tu, Brute?"

Persons: Remo Casilli ROME, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, Caesar, Brutus, Keith Weir, Andrew Heavens Organizations: REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Largo Argentina, Rome, Italy, Italian

☆ NATO pushes for common standards to tackle shortfalls in artillery munitions
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Sabine Siebold | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

But the lack of common standards among the various manufacturers has hampered the flow of munitions supplies. It will take place on the sidelines of a NATO defence ministers' meeting in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. Demand for 155mm artillery rounds has soared in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. "If national governments could bring themselves to throw national standards over board and agree on common NATO standards – in particular with regard to munitions – this would be a landslide change," the defence source said. Before that many NATO countries had already run down their stocks as governments considered wars of attrition with big artillery battles a thing of the past.

Persons: Caesar, Jens Stoltenberg, KMW, Leonardo, Northrop, Abrams, Armin Papperger, Sabine Siebold, Gwladys Fouche, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Separate Artillery Brigade, REUTERS, NATO, BAE Systems, Turkish, Dynamics, Leopard, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, British Storm Shadow, Rheinmetall, RND, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Avdiivka, Donetsk region, BRUSSELS, Kyiv, NATO, Brussels, Kongsberg, Vilnius, Oslo

HAMBURG, June 11 (Reuters) - BioNTech (22UAy.DE) will go to court on Monday to defend itself against a lawsuit from a German woman who is seeking damages for alleged side effects of its COVID-19 vaccine, the first of potentially hundreds of cases in the country. The plaintiff claims she suffered upper-body pain, swollen extremities, fatigue and sleeping disorder due to the vaccine. Tobias Ulbrich, a lawyer at Rogert & Ulbrich, told Reuters he aimed to challenge in court the assessment made by European Union regulators and German vaccine assessment bodies that the BioNTech shot has a positive risk-benefit profile. Almost 768 million vaccine doses have been administered in the European Economic Area (EEA), which includes the 27 EU member states plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. Rogert & Ulbrich says it has filed about 250 cases for clients seeking damages for alleged side-effects of COVID-19 vaccines.

Persons: Tobias Ulbrich, Caesar, Preller, Ludwig Burger, Patricia Weiss, Emilio Parodi, Natalie Grover, Sam Tobin, Josephine Mason, Mark Potter Organizations: Reuters, European Union, Pfizer, European Medicines Agency, EMA, Economic, BioNTech, United, Thomson Locations: HAMBURG, Hamburg, Germany, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, United States, Italy, Milan, London

☆ Taylor and Conners to try and make it Canada Day at national championship
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Jun 10, 2023; Toronto, ON, CAN; Nick Taylor hits his tee shot at the 17th hole during the third round of the RBC Canadian Open golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY SportsTORONTO, June 10 (Reuters) - Perhaps no sporting event in Canada goes out of its way to tug at the heritage heartstrings more than the Canadian Open. But entering Sunday's final round there is plenty of Canadian content on the leaderboard with Nick Taylor and Corey Conners in position to make history. Six will start Sunday's final round two off the pace including Taylor, who rocketed into contention with a course record nine-under 63. "I would love to win the Canadian Open for the third time.

Persons: Nick Taylor, Dan Hamilton, Caesar, Bloody Mary, Pat Fletcher, Corey Conners, Taiwan's, Pan, Rory McIlroy, Taylor, Northern Ireland's McIlroy, LIV, McIlroy, I've, Steve Keating, Andrea Ricci Organizations: RBC Canadian, Sports TORONTO, Canadian, Oakdale Country, PGA, Thomson Locations: Toronto, Canada, Muskoka, Australia, Zimbabwe, Canadian, Saudi

☆ Ukraine counteroffensive: Is Kyiv's operation underway south of Zaporizhzhia?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Andrew Carey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The attacks had been repelled, Shoigu said, adding that Ukrainian forces had suffered significant losses of both soldiers and arms. The situation facing Russian forces was very serious, he said. Breaking Russia’s land-bridge to Crimea, by rolling back Russian forces to the Sea of Azov, is clearly a central military objective for Ukraine. Ukrainian troops fire a Caesar self-propelled howitzer towards Russian forces near the town of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region. Viacheslav Ratynskyi/ReutersCNN cannot independently verify claims made by Russian officials or those of well-sourced Russian military bloggers.

Persons: Sergei Shoigu, Shoigu, Semyon Pegov –, ” –, Volodymyr Zelensky, Alexander Kots, Vladimir Rogov, ”, Caesar, Ratynskyi Organizations: Ukraine CNN —, Russian Ministry of Defence, 47th Mechanized Brigade, Defense Ministry, Reuters CNN, Russian Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, Nova, Zaporizhzhia, Moscow, Orikhiv, Tokmak, Russian, Crimea, Azov, Melitopol, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Donetsk, Ukrainian

☆ Ted Cruz is citing the Bible and preaching on Twitter in defense of the LGBT community, and it's quite something
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ted Cruz preached tolerance for the LGBT community during a Twitter spat with a pastor. "Let he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her," Cruz tweeted. The Texas senator then invoked another Bible verse to support his argument that gay people should not be persecuted. We are talking the laws of man, not the Old Testament laws of God,'" Cruz tweeted. Cruz also mentioned another Bible verse — "let he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" — arguing that it is cruel and hypocritical to judge others for sinning.

Persons: Ted Cruz, Cruz, —, Sen, Tom Ascol, Jesus, Caesar, Ascol, Hodges, Roe, Wade Organizations: Service, Newsweek, The Texas Tribune Locations: Florida, Texas, Uganda

☆ A 'fake moon' has been following Earth around the sun since 100 BC, and astronomers just noticed
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An asteroid has been trailing Earth around the sun since 100 BC, astronomers estimate. The space rock at first appears to be another moon, but it's actually orbiting the sun and not Earth. That makes this asteroid a "quasi-moon" or "fake moon." Scientists first discovered the space rock, called 2023 FW13, in March using the Pan-STARRS observatory in Hawaii. What makes this fake moon uniqueThe full moon rises behind the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.

Persons: Alan Harris, Christian Hartmann, Julius Caesar, That's, Adrien Coffinet, Harris, that's Organizations: Service, Space Science Institute, Sky, Eiffel, Reuters, Minor Planet, International Astronomical Union Locations: Hawaii, Paris, France

☆ Lindsey Graham is now a wanted man in Russia, and he said he will wear the arrest warrant like a 'badge of honor'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia issued an arrest warrant for Lindsey Graham after an edited video of him was posted online. Graham said that he would wear the arrest like a "Badge of Honor." Graham said in a statement on Monday that he would "wear the arrest warrant issued by Putin's corrupt and immoral government as a Badge of Honor." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office released an edited video from Graham's visit to Kyiv on Friday, where two clips of Graham were stitched together. The sequence of statements in the edited video, which made it appear that Graham was jubilant about Russians dying, angered Russian officials.

☆ From Ukraine to Sudan Aid Workers Don’t Pick Sides - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Mirjana Spoljaric | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

With great-power tensions rising and wars raging, the idea of neutrality these days may seem to many people anachronistic at best and amoral at worst. Today, there are a great many places where neutral humanitarian action is under grave threat. If we did, it wouldn’t be possible to provide humanitarian assistance to people across the world’s most contentious theaters of armed conflict. Here’s the problem: Civilians affected by armed conflict — whether in Ukraine, Sudan or Syria — are not always receiving the assistance they deserve. Worse, they’re being injured and killed in the crossfire or when combatants violate the laws of war.

☆ Supreme Court rules for homeowner in 'equity theft' dispute
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Lawrence Hurley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The Supreme Court of the United States building are seen in Washington D.C., United States on December 28, 2022. But the county sold the home for $40,000 and kept all the proceeds, Tyler's lawyers at the Pacific Legal Foundation say. The remaining states return the surplus proceeds when seized properties are sold. A year later, the county sold it for $40,000, keeping the $25,000 in profit. Owners have three years to pay the taxes and have an opportunity to repurchase the seized properties.

In a Telegram post, groups calling themselves the “Freedom of Russia Legion” and “Russian Volunteer Corps” said they had “liberated” a settlement in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine. The situation in Belgorod marks “the first time” that Ukrainian-aligned forces have launched “a cross-border land operation against Russian targets,” according to CNN’s Sam Kiley. A helicopter circles over Russia's Belgorod region, the site of fighting between Russian defectors and pro-Kremlin troops amid the war in Ukraine. The Freedom for Russia Legion numbers a few hundred of diehard, battle-hardened Russian volunteers fighting their own people as part of the Ukrainian armed forces. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesperson, said: “Russian forces are working to push out the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group from the territory of the Russian Federation and destroy it.

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