
France to recognize Palestinian state
In a historic move, French President Emmanuel Macron will recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations this September, making France the first major Western power to do so. With Gaza in crisis, the move could add pressure and revive diplomatic talks.
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Why are Thailand and Cambodia fighting?
Tensions are rising between Thailand and Cambodia over a border dispute that dates back to 1907. CNN's Will Ripley explains how the conflict has escalated.
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CNN reports from Gaza aid crossing
CNN's Nic Robertson is on the scene at the Kerem Shalom border crossing as aid agencies warn of rampant hunger caused by Israel's blockade of Gaza. Gaza's health ministry said on Tuesday that 900,000 children are going hungry, and 70,000 already show signs of malnutrition. Israel denies it is at fault and accuses Hamas of 'engineering' food shortages.
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Reopening the ancient tunnels 75 feet under Rome
CNN's Ben Wedeman was given an exclusive tour of ancient tunnels underneath Rome's Capitoline Hill. The tunnels, which archeologists say were once filled with ancient Roman shops and taverns, are set to open to the public in late 2026 or early 2027.
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Ukraine sees first major anti-government protests since start of war
Hundreds took to the streets after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a new law limiting the autonomy of anti-corruption agencies in his government.
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Peruvian police use superhero disguise during drug raid
An agent in the Peruvian police force disguised themselves as the Mexican superhero character El Chapulín Colorado during a drug raid in the nation's capital of Lima. Police said six members of a criminal gang were captured and that cocaine paste, marijuana, cell phones, and money were seized.
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Distressing images show starvation in Gaza
Distressing video footage shows a 41-year-old man in Gaza who died of starvation as humanitarian organizations urge for Israel to end its blockade of the enclave. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports.
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Small Irish town confronts its dark past
Excavations of the remains of nearly 800 babies have begun at a former so-called mother and baby home in Tuam, Ireland. At least 9,000 infants and children died in more than a dozen of these institutions over the course of eight decades.
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Fire tornado rips through Turkish forest
Turkey's forestry ministry has released video of a fire tornado tearing through the country's woodland. Hundreds of wildfires have gripped Turkey this summer, as well as Greece and other Mediterranean countries.
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Concerns grow over Australia's toxic algae bloom
A harmful algae bloom off the coast of South Australia, caused by high sea temperatures and runoff from flooding, is poisoning marine life and depleting oxygen in the water. The Australian government has stated that there is little that can be done to reverse the rapid rate of the climate crisis.
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International visitors to US will pay new fee
CNN's Richard Quest explains how the Trump administration enacted a bill that will require international visitors to pay a new 'visa integrity fee' of $250 dollars. The fee will apply to all visitors who are required to obtain nonimmigrant visas to enter the US.
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Mexico City residents furious over gentrification
Mexico City saw its second anti-gentrification protest in less than a month on Sunday with demonstrators furious over rising prices in the city and the record number of foreigners applying for a resident visa. The main nationality of those foreigners seeking to move legally to the nation's capital? The United States of America.
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Child flees Israeli strike on Gaza refugee camp
Video shows a child running away as Israeli munitions struck near a UNRWA school in Bureij Refugee Camp behind her.
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China cracks down on fake "Lafufu" Labubus
Fake Labubu plush toys, dubbed "Lafufu," have gained popularity due to shortages of the original dolls made by China's Pop Mart.
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Jair Bolsonaro denies coup charges as police raid home
Police in Brazil raided the home of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and enforced a ruling from the country's Supreme Court that Bolsonaro wear an electronic ankle tag. Bolsonaro is being accused of plotting to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election.
01:17 - Source: CNN
Taiwan conducts 10-day military drill
The Taiwanese government is preparing for a war they hope will never happen. For the first time this year, Taiwan combined two major civil defense exercises, with the drills lasting ten days. These drills have included urban combat, mass casualty simulations, emergency supply drops and cyber defense that could be enacted if an invasion was to occur. CNN's Senior International Correspondent, Will Ripley, reports.
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Deadly flooding grips South Korea for days
South Korea has been ravaged for days by intense flooding that's left more than a dozen people dead. Reuters reported more than 16 inches of rain fell in one area in just 24 hours, citing the country's Interior and Safety Ministry.
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Brazil's Lula tells Christiane Amanpour: Trump 'Was not elected to be emperor of the world'
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview it was 'a surprise' to see President Donald Trump's letter posted to Truth Social, threatening Brazil with a crippling tariff of 50% starting August 1st. Lula says that he initially thought the letter was 'fake news.' Watch the full 'Amanpour' interview on CNN.
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Gaza's only Catholic church hit by Israeli strike
Gaza's only Catholic church was struck by an Israeli tank, killing three and injuring many more, church officials said. It became internationally recognized after reports emerged that the late Pope Francis used to call the church daily. CNN's Nada Bashir reports
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Prince Harry recreates his mother's historic landmine walk
Following in his mother's footsteps, Prince Harry visited Angola's minefields just as Princess Diana did 28 years ago. The Duke of Sussex was in Angola with The Halo Trust as part of the group's efforts to clear landmines.
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Massive fire destroys Tomorrowland's main stage
Tomorrowland's main stage went up in flames just days ahead of the festival's opening in Boom, Belgium.
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How Trump's image is changing inside Russia
Once hailed as a pro-Kremlin figure, President Donald Trump's image is changing inside Russia. It comes after Trump vowed further sanctions on the country if a peace agreement with Ukraine is not reached in 50 days. CNN's Chief Global Affairs Correspondent is on the ground in Moscow with the analysis.
01:41 - Source: CNN
Who are the armed groups clashing in Syria?
Dozens were killed in Syria this week after clashes between government loyalists and Druze militias in the southern city of Suwayda, prompting Syrian forces to intervene. That, in turn, triggered renewed Israeli airstrikes.
01:57 - Source: CNN
Syrian anchor takes cover from airstrike live on TV
An airstrike on the Syrian Ministry of Defense was captured live on Syria TV, forcing the anchor to take cover. Israel has been carrying out airstrikes on Syria as part of its commitment to protect the Druze, an Arab minority at the center of clashes with government loyalists.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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- San Francisco Chronicle
European leaders to join Ukraine's Zelenskyy for White House meeting with Trump
KYIV (AP) — European and NATO leaders announced Sunday that they'll be joining President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington for crucial talks with President Donald Trump, rallying around the Ukrainian leader after his exclusion from Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The remarkable move — with one European leader after another announcing that they'll be at Zelenskyy's side when he travels to the White House on Monday — was an apparent effort to ensure that the meeting goes better than the last one in February, when Trump berated the Ukrainian president in a heated Oval Office encounter. 'The Europeans are very afraid of the Oval Office scene being repeated and so they want to support Mr. Zelenskyy to the hilt,' said retired French Gen. Dominique Trinquand, a former head of France's military mission at the United Nations. 'It's a power struggle and a position of strength that might work with Trump," he said in a phone interview. The European leaders' presence at Zelenskyy's side, demonstrating Europe's support for Ukraine, could potentially help ease concerns in Kyiv and in other European capitals that Ukraine risks being railroaded into a peace deal that Trump says he wants to broker with Russia. It wasn't immediately clear whether all or just some of them would be taking part in the actual meeting with Trump. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on X that she will take part in the talks, "at the request of President Zelenskyy.' The secretary-general of the NATO military alliance, Mark Rutte, will also take part in the meeting, his press service said. The office of President Emmanuel Macron announced that the French leader will travel on Monday to Washington 'at the side of President Zelenskyy' although it didn't immediately specify that he'll be in the meeting. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will also be part of the European group, but the statement from his office likewise didn't specify that he will be in the talks with Trump. The grouped trip underscored European leaders' determination to ensure that Europe has a voice in Trump's attempted peace-making, after the U.S. president's summit on Friday with Putin — to which Zelenskyy wasn't invited.


Washington Post
25 minutes ago
- Washington Post
The Ukrainian children killed in Russian strikes this year
The year began with a new U.S. president and hope for a ceasefire in the grinding war. Instead, Russian attacks on Ukraine have intensified. Russia continues to relentlessly bombard Ukraine each day, killing and wounding civilians. July was the deadliest month in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion began in 2022, with 286 people killed and 1,388 wounded, according to the United Nations. The number of civilians killed and wounded in Ukraine in the first seven months of the year increased by 48 percent compared with the same period the year before. On Friday, President Donald Trump hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska for direct talks, but the summit yielded no breakthrough or any sign that the attacks on Ukraine will end. Trump dropped his insistence on a ceasefire and Putin demanded territorial concessions that are unacceptable to Ukraine, according to officials familiar with the talks who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy. A May 23 portrait of Snizhana Solonichenko, 46, the mother of Nikita Solonichenko, 17, who was killed in a Russian ballistic missile attack on April 4; her son and Nikita's younger brother Maksym, 8; and Nikita's girlfriend, Anna Stepanova, 17, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. Since Nikita was killed, Anna has moved in with Snizhana and her family. Nikita's father has served in the army for more than three years. (Oksana Parafeniuk/For The Washington Post) Nikita Solonichenko, 17 Killed by a Russian missile in Kryvyi Rih on April 4 Ukraine has long agreed to a 30-day ceasefire to set the stage for negotiations to end the war. Russia has refused. Instead, it has ramped up attacks on heavily populated areas, according to independent military analysts and a Washington Post analysis of data from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Russia says it targets military facilities and personnel as well as public infrastructure that it says aids the Ukrainian military. Radislav Yatsko, 7 Killed by a Russian missile in Kryvyi Rih on April 4 At least 55 children have been killed in Ukraine this year, according to the U.N. The Washington Post confirmed that at least 43 of those children were killed in Russian attacks on Ukrainian-controlled territory. Post reporters verified these 43 deaths with parents, relatives, teachers and local officials, and visited the families and graves of more than 20 of them. These are some of their stories. Sofia Yavorska, 9 Killed by a Russian missile in Poltava on Feb. 1 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: A residential building in Poltava, Ukraine, that was damaged by a Russian missile on Feb. 1, killing four people, including Sofia Yavorska, 9. Yehor Yavorskyi holds a portrait of Sofia, his granddaughter, and her parents, Dmytro Yavorskyi and Olena Yavorska. Sofia Yavorska's grave in Poltava. Yehor Yavorskyi, 62, loved everything about his 9-year-old granddaughter: the way she studied the encyclopedia and played tennis, how she danced and drew, the way she made candles and figurines, and even bracelets that she sold in the park to raise money for soldiers like her dad. Yehor also loved how she used to tease him by pulling at his big gray beard and begging him to shave, insisting, 'I want to see my grandfather be young!' Story continues below advertisement Advertisement On Feb. 1, Sofia's grandmother, Olena Yavorska, 59, felt an explosion as she arrived to work at a shop in Poltava. When her son, his wife and Sofia didn't answer her calls, she rushed to their apartment screaming for someone to save her family. A rescue worker pulled her aside and asked her which part of the building they lived in. 'The first entrance,' she recalled replying. 'Grandma,' he told her, 'the first part is gone.' The Russian cruise missile had destroyed Sofia's apartment, killing the 9-year-old and her parents. To honor Sofia's wishes, Yehor shaved his beard for the family funeral. Maksym and Tymofii Kotov, 11 and 13 Killed by Russian shelling in the Donetsk region on March 11 Unnamed girl, 15 Killed by Russian shelling in Pokrovsk on March 17. Her family has not released her name. Uliana-Khrystyna Malenko, 17 Killed by a Russian drone in Zaporizhzhia on March 21 Valeria Podlipska, 3 Killed by a Russian drone in Kyiv on March 23 Unnamed boy, 10 Killed by a Russian glide bomb in Kramatorsk on July 22 Diana and Daniil Zapishnyi, 12 and 7 Killed by a Russian missile in Poltava on Feb. 1 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Diana Zapishnyi, 12, who was killed in a Russian missile strike in Poltava on Feb. 1 with her brother and parents, in a photo on her aunt's phone. Tetiana Zapishnia, 39, the children's aunt, in Opishnia, Ukraine, on May 22. A photo of Daniil Zapishnyi, 7, Diana's brother who was also killed in the Feb. 1 strike. After a Russian missile killed Daniil Zapishnyi, 7; his older sister Diana, 12; and their parents, it was up to Daniil's teacher to explain to his friends why he was no longer at school. Bohdana Drok had not trained for this moment — but she did her best to explain the war and why the boy who could never sit still unless food was on the table would not be coming back to class. For weeks after, her 7-year-old students would collapse in her arms to cry. Now, when air-raid sirens go off, she notices the children are much quicker to rush to the basement shelter. Teachers wanted to hang portraits of the siblings in a memorial. But they worried placing the photos in the hallway would be too upsetting for the children still processing the deaths. Instead, their images now hang on a wall in the principal's office. Students can come to visit privately when they need a moment with one of their lost friends. 'No goal can be justified if the price is the life of a human child,' Drok said. Mykyta Perekhrest, 15 Killed by a Russian missile in Kryvyi Rih on April 4 Kostiantyn Novik, 16 Killed by a Russian missile in Kryvyi Rih on April 4 Nicole Haranska, 5 Killed by a Russian drone in Kyiv on March 23 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Oleksandra Haranska, 26, lost her daughter Nicole, 5, and her husband, Oleksandr Haranskyi, 35, in a Russian drone strike on Kyiv on March 23. Baby pictures of Nicole in a photo album. Oleksandra holds one of Nicole's drawings. Oleksandr Haranskyi, his wife, Oleksandra, and their daughter Nicole moved to Kyiv believing it would be safer than their home village of Orikhiv, near the front line in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region. They desperately missed home: their 300 beehives, their successful honey business, their church. The couple had met through their evangelical faith and stayed busy in Kyiv with their new Christian community. Seeking privacy from the shared apartment where they lived, the family often slept in a mobile home on the church property. Story continues below advertisement Advertisement On March 23, they were all asleep there in the same bed when a swarm of drones struck. Oleksandra was pulled out of the rubble alive. Oleksandr and Nicole were killed. Nicole loved rainbows, art classes and church. She spoke about heaven more than most children her age. 'Mom, when are we going to run around on clouds with Jesus?' Oleksandra recalled her daughter saying. 'She believed in it fully.' Despite everything the attack took from her, Oleksandra said she has forgiven the Russian soldiers who launched the drone and killed her husband and child. 'When you say 'I forgive,' you liberate yourself,' she said. 'But I will not forget.' Arina Samodina, 7 Killed by a Russian missile in Kryvyi Rih on April 4 Oleh Kaliusenko, 17 Killed by a Russian missile in Sumy on April 13 Veronika Kariachka, 17 Killed by a Russian drone in Dnipro on April 16 Polina Osaulenko, 9 Killed by a Russian glide bomb in the Zaporizhzhia region on May 31 Kirill Golovko, 12 Killed by a Russian drone in Sumy region on Aug. 2 Danylo Nikitskyi, 15 Killed by a Russian missile in Kryvyi Rih on April 4 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The spot where Danylo Nikitskyi, 15; his girlfriend, Alina Kutsenko, 15; and two friends, Mykyta Perekhrest, 15, and Kostiantyn Novik, 16, were killed in a Russian ballistic missile attack in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on April 4. Nataliia Nikitska, 46, Danylo's mother, holds a pair of her son's boxing gloves. Danylo Nikitskyi's grave in Kryvyi Rih. The teenagers' parents were supposed to meet soon for a barbecue: a big step in their children's new relationship that started in January and had quickly turned serious. Instead they met for the first time over their children's dead bodies, laid out in the park. The 15-year-olds' hands were intertwined. Danylo Nikitskyi and Alina Kutsenko had fallen hard for each other with the typical intensity of first love. They were growing up fast: Danylo was no longer the little boy obsessed with learning magic tricks; Alina was no longer the little girl who dyed her hair bright pink in second grade. Even at 15, they were already planning their future, hoping to attend law school together in Odesa. 'It was such a young love. A first love. And if they would have little misunderstandings it would upset them both endlessly,' Alina's mother, Marta Kutsenko said. The parents decided to bury the children together and are now designing a shared memorial plaque. Danylo's father said his favorite memory of his son, 'was everything between the 18th of November 2009 until the day of his death.' Alina Kutsenko, 15 Danylo's girlfriend, killed by a Russian missile in Kryvyi Rih on April 4 Tymofii Tsvitok, 3 Killed by a Russian missile in Kryvyi Rih on April 4 Herman Tripolets, 9 Killed by a Russian missile in Kryvyi Rih on April 4 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: A handmade car in the empty room of Herman Tripolets, 9, who was killed on a playground in Kryvyi Rih in a Russian ballistic missile attack on April 4. Svitlana Tripolets, 49, Herman's mother. A portrait of Herman in his room in Kryvyi Rih. From Svitlana Tripolets's apartment window, she looks down each day on the playground where her son, Herman, 9, was killed on April 4. Just after the explosion sent a shock wave through their building, Herman's father and sister rushed downstairs to find him. He was on the merry-go-round, dead. The family chose to cremate him, because Svitlana feared that if she knew his body was intact underground, she would just want to dig him out. They do not plan to change apartments, because no matter where they go, Svitlana said, the grief will always follow. Instead, they look out at the playground and remember Herman, who loved Legos, swimming and karate. 'He never had temper tantrums,' Svitlana said, 'and he said, 'I love my life.'' Viktoriia Kamienkova, 13 Killed by a Russian rocket in the Dontesk region on April 24 Danylo Khudia, 17 Killed by a Russian missile in Kyiv on April 24 Valeriia Khlibets, 15 Killed by a Russian drone in Pavlohrad on April 24 Dmytro, 14 months Killed by a Russian drone near Kherson on July 9 Matvii Marchenko, 6 Killed in a Russian ballistic missile strike on an apartment building in Kyiv on July 31 Alina and Anastasia Gumeniuk, 10 and 13 Killed in a Russian ballistic missile strike on an apartment building in Kyiv on July 31 Maksym Martynenko, 11 Killed by a Russian missile in Sumy on April 13 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: A collage of pictures of Maksym Martynenko, 11, who was killed with his parents, Nataliia and Mykola Martynenko, in a Russian missile strike on Sumy on April 13. Nadiia Krasnoshchok, 69, Maksym's grandmother, at her home in Stare Selo, Ukraine. The grave of Maksym Martynenko in Stare Selo. Maksym Martynenko, 11, was born into a family of evangelical Christians, but often resisted going with them to church. On Palm Sunday, he joined his parents for the first time in a while. As they rode the bus to church, Russia launched two ballistic missiles into Sumy's city center, killing 35 people, including Maksym and his parents. Maksym's leg was blown off, and his neighbor Valeria Peredrienko recalled how, when she saw him before his burial, the rest of his body was intact. It was almost, she said, 'as if he was about to get up and run to play.' Maksym left behind his faithful dog Rex and his grandmother, Nadiia Krasnoshchok, 69, who said she was so sedated in the days after their deaths that she is only now 'slowly coming to understand' that her only relatives are gone. 'I would smash Putin's face in myself,' she said. The family was buried together. Near their shared grave, someone placed a soccer ball — the same one Maksym used to kick. Margarita Titarenko, 12 Killed by a Russian drone in the Dnipropetrovsk region on April 29 Borys Zinchenko, 6 Killed by a Russian missile in the Sumy region on May 6 Oleksandr Kapitan, 15 Killed by a Russian glide bomb in Kherson on April 18 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The empty room of Oleksandr Kapitan, 15, nicknamed Sasha, who was killed in a Russian strike on Kherson on April 18. Oleksandr Sobchuk, 54, Sasha's father, at home in the Muzykivka village. Oleksandr Sobchuk holds a dog tag doctors gave him after his son died. Oleksandr Kapitan's grave in Muzykivka. Oleksandr Kapitan was born on July 25, 2009, a month sooner than expected, with all the risks that entails. For his parents, the boy, nicknamed Sasha, was a child of hope: Their first child, born a year earlier, lived only seven days. 'When I was allowed to hold him for the first time, I was very happy,' his father, Oleksandr Sobchuk, recalled. 'We were all very happy.' Sasha grew up bursting with life. He played soccer, built construction sets, repaired bicycles and made pizza with his mother, before she died from a heart attack last year. His family survived Russian occupation in their home village of Muzykivka, in the Kherson region, in 2022. When Ukrainian soldiers retook the area nine months later, Sasha rushed in excitement to greet them. He later befriended the Ukrainian troops stationed near his home, who several months ago gifted him with a marine's beret, a military jacket and several patches. He dreamed of one day joining them in the military. Story continues below advertisement Advertisement Then, on April 17, Sasha and Oleksandr were at a service station when Russian jets dropped glide bombs on Kherson, sending shrapnel into Sasha's head. Oleksandr used a rag to try to stop his son's bleeding. He called for help, but Russian drones prevented any ambulance from reaching them, so he rushed Sasha to the hospital himself. Doctors performed two long surgeries, and when Oleksandr was allowed into his son's room the next day, Sasha was breathing. His eyes were slightly open. 'I really wanted him to get out of there, to fight for himself — he was a strong boy,' Oleksandr said. 'But the shrapnel was stronger.' At home in Sasha's room, everything remains in its place. A phone from his sister. The uniform gifted by soldiers. His notebooks, backpack and construction sets. From his window, Oleksandr looks out at the cemetery where Sasha is buried and sees his son's tombstone, marked by a large Ukrainian flag to match the graves of fallen soldiers. Mykhailo Shyhyda, 1 Killed by a Russian drone in the Chernihiv region on June 5 Bohdan Hareta, 17 Killed in a June 3 Russian rocket strike in Sumy; died in a hospital on June 10. Maria Siora, 11 Killed in a Russian missile strike on Kyiv on June 23 Dmytro Bezverkhyi, 5 Killed in a Russian drone strike in Sumy on June 24 Lev Lamekhov, 2 Killed in a Russian ballistic missile strike on an apartment building in Kyiv on July 31 Roman Hayovyi, 17 Killed in a Russian ballistic missile strike on an apartment building in Kyiv on July 31 Roman, Tamara and Stanislav Martyniuk, 17, 12 and 8 Killed by a Russian missile in the Zhytomyr region on May 25 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The grave in Korostyshiv of three siblings of the Martyniuk family: Roman, 17; Tamara, 12; and Stanislav, 8, who were killed in a Russian missile attack on May 25. Olena Martyniuk, 48, and Ihor Martyniuk, 55, hold portraits of their children in their home in Korostyshiv on June 27. Family and community members mourn the children during a farewell ceremony on May 28. People wait in line to say goodbye to the children during the farewell ceremony. The hour before his siblings' funeral began, Oleksandr Martyniuk, 24, was digging through what remained of his family home — searching for anything he could salvage. Across the way, a small pile was forming: a stack of dinner plates, a heap of toys, a red rug, rolled up tight. Then he found the chickens. For three days, they had been trapped without food or water under the rubble — the same rubble that had crushed his two younger brothers and sister days before. Oleksandr gently picked each bird up — some injured, some still far from full-grown — and moved them to safety in the trunk of a half-blown-up car. They clucked as his girlfriend quietly fed them grain out of her hand. Oleksandr was in Kyiv when the call came about the first Russian attack on his quiet hometown. A missile had plunged straight into his family's home. Staying busy was how Oleksandr was coping with this new world, the one where his childhood home no longer existed, his parents were wounded, and three of his four siblings were dead. Dusk was settling in. He quickly changed his clothes, showered and rushed to the church, where hundreds of mourners came to pay their respects. His mother was too unwell to attend her three children's funeral. Instead, it was Oleksandr who stood by his father, clutching his shoulders as hundreds of people lined up to pay their respects to the three coffins in the tiny church. Two were for Tamara and Stanislav, the youngest children, who had been studying traditional Ukrainian music at a nearby school. And one was for Roman, who was due to finish high school in weeks. That night, a teacher laid his graduation sash across his coffin. Oksana Parafeniuk and Serhiy Morgunov contributed to this report.
Yahoo
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- Yahoo
Hamas rejects Israel's Gaza relocation plan
CAIRO (Reuters) -Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Sunday that Israel's plan to relocate residents from Gaza City constitutes a "new wave of genocide and displacement" for hundreds of thousands of residents in the area. The group said the planned deployment of tents and other shelter equipment by Israel into southern Gaza was a "blatant deception". The Israeli military has said it is preparing to provide tents and other equipment starting from Sunday ahead of its plan to relocate residents from combat zones to the south of the enclave "to ensure their safety". Hamas said in a statement that the deployment of tents under the guise of humanitarian purposes is a blatant deception intended to "cover up a brutal crime that the occupation forces prepare to execute". Israel said earlier this month that it intended to launch a new offensive to seize control of northern Gaza City, the enclave's largest urban centre. The plan has raised international alarm over the fate of the demolished strip, which is home to about 2.2 million people. The war began when Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. About 20 of the remaining 50 hostages in Gaza are believed to be still alive. Israel's subsequent military assault against Hamas has killed over 61,000 Palestinians, Gaza's health ministry says. It has also caused a hunger crisis, internally displaced most of Gaza's population and left much of the enclave in ruins. Solve the daily Crossword