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Russia has slowed natural-gas supplies to Europe amid the war in Ukraine — and the commodity giant is under “severe strain” because of it, a Yale University analysis found. “Contrary to widespread alarmism over the adverse impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on global commodity prices, the importance of commodity exports to Russia far exceeds the importance of Russian commodity exports to the rest of the world,” the experts wrote in the analysis, released July 20....

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Aug 2 (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Tuesday denied Russian claims that the country had destroyed six US-made HIMARS missile systems since the start of the conflict in Ukraine. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, according to Interfax, said on Tuesday that Russia destroyed HIMARS after Moscow deployed tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine on February 24. “We are aware of these latest allegations by Secretary Shoigu, and they are again patently false,” said Todd Breisel, the Pentagon’s acting spokesman....

Lieutenant Colonel Denis Mezhuev, commander of the 1st Sevastopol Motorized Rifle Guards Regiment, is believed to have died in battle. Russia has not confirmed his death, but social media users, including Andrey Kovalev, a Russian poet and composer, have demanded that he be posthumously honored with the Hero of Russia Award. Ukraine claims to have killed seven generals since President Putin’s invasion in February. Russia is also believed to have lost 33 lieutenant colonels or colonels, but has only confirmed the death of one....

The files – which were reviewed by Reuters and contain dozens of pages of documents and presentations as well as video links – are instructions on how to teach teenage children about conflict. It is not clear who shared the files in the group conversation, but many of the documents bear the emblem of the Ministry of Education in Moscow. The material includes course guides stating that Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine were heroes, that Ukrainian leaders had a common affair with people who collaborated with Nazis in World War II, that the West was trying to sow discord in Russian society, and that the Russians must stay together....

Ein Bewohner des südwestlichen Lembergs sagte der Nachrichtenagentur AFP, er habe dicke graue Rauchwolken hinter Wohnhäusern aufsteigen sehen. „Die Russen setzen ihre barbarischen Luftangriffe auf ukrainische Städte fort“, schrieb Mykhailo Podoliak, ein Berater des ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj, auf Twitter. Nach Angaben des Chefs der ukrainischen Eisenbahngesellschaft, Alexander Kamyshin, verursachte der Angriff auch Schäden an der Eisenbahninfrastruktur. Im Internet wurde ein Foto geteilt, das Feuer und Rauch über einem kleinen Gebäude neben einer Eisenbahnlinie zeigt....

Der Bomber schlug kurz nach Mittag in Kiew ein, die höchste Stufe seit dem Abzug russischer Truppen aus der ukrainischen Hauptstadt. Das russische Verteidigungsministerium sagte, der nächtliche Angriff habe eine Fabrik getroffen, die Raketen herstellt und repariert. Dazu gehörten Schiffsabwehrraketen. Vergeltung für Anschläge in Russland Das russische Verteidigungsministerium begründete die Angriffe in Kiew als Vergeltung für die ukrainischen Angriffe auf russisches Territorium, über die die russischen Behörden gestern mehrfach gesprochen hatten....

Auch 2022 wird es in Salzburgs „Magic Flume“ bunt © APA/BARBARA GINDL Stoppt den Zirkus! 2018 sorgte Lydia Steyer mit ihrer Inszenierung von Mozarts „Zauberflöte“ bei den Salzburger Festspielen vor allem dank der überladenen Zirkusästhetik für regelrechte Kontroversen. Das war erst vor vier Jahren – und doch wirkt es wie aus einer anderen Welt, vor Krieg, vor Pandemie. Festspielleiter Markus Hinterhäuser hat Steier nun die Möglichkeit gegeben, ihre Regie zu überdenken....

Deutschland: Flüchtlinge müssen Kriegsverbrechen anzeigen Bundesjustizminister Marco Buschmann will Kriegsverbrechen in der Ukraine mit Hilfe von Flüchtlingen in Deutschland aufklären. „Wir rufen alle ukrainischen Flüchtlinge auf, sich an jede Polizeidienststelle zu wenden, wenn sie Opfer oder Zeuge von Kriegsverbrechen geworden sind“, sagte der FDP-Politiker der Welt am Sonntag. Das Bundeskriminalamt wertet die Erkenntnisse im Rahmen der Ermittlungen der Generalbundesanwaltschaft aus. Auch Deutschland unterstützt den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof mit zusätzlichem Geld und Personal....

The first observation is that even though we continue to see Russia fail — fail on the battlefield, pay a high price for very little gain, and suffer from domestic failures at home, I was really struck this week by how the Russian rhetoric was trying to cover up those losses, and what we saw was really very expansive rhetoric coming out of Moscow. Some examples of this — we heard Foreign Minister Lavrov reverse his administration’s previous denials that they are seeking regime change in Kyiv and — and he talked this week about getting rid of the regime in Kyiv....

Police are investigating reports of a shooting on the campus of Oakland Technical High School Sunday afternoon. OAKLAND, Calif. — Police are investigating reports of a shooting on the campus of Oakland Technical High School Sunday afternoon. Police have not released any official statement about what happened, but officers were seen searching the neighborhood near the school. Witnesses say the 10-year-old Pop Warner Football Team from the Fresno area was playing the Oakland team when shots rang out in the stands....

Le salaire minimum revalorisé Face à la hausse des prix, le salaire minimum a augmenté de 2,01 % au 1er août. Il passera donc de 1 302,64 euros net à 1 329 euros net mensuel, pour un travail à temps plein. Le salaire horaire minimum, quant à lui, passe de 8,58 € à 8,76 €. Cette réévaluation est automatique. En effet, le Code du travail prévoit une augmentation du salaire minimum lorsque l’indice des prix à la consommation augmente d’au moins 2% par rapport à l’indice observé lors de la dernière détermination du montant, ce qui est actuellement le cas....

Earth is set to take a direct hit from a solar storm today, Wednesday, August 3. The storm is said to be created through a coronal mass ejection that occurs in the Sun’s atmosphere, causing high-speed solar winds to make their way to Earth. The solar storm forecast was made by meteorologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). According to spaceweather.com, meteorologists observed “gaseous material flowing from a southern hole in the sun’s atmosphere....

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The former UK chancellor’s comments, made in a sunny garden, appeared to bear with the government’s rhetoric about “flattening” Britain and spreading wealth beyond the south-east. Sunak said he changed Treasury funding formulas to ensure areas like Tunbridge Wells got “the funding they deserve”, in a video clip obtained by the New Statesman magazine that quickly went viral. He said: “We inherited a bunch of formulas from Labor which drove all the funding into deprived urban areas....

Su Tseng-chang told reporters in the capital Taipei that he believed China was arbitrarily destroying the Taiwan Strait – the world’s most frequently used waterway – with its military exercises and its actions were condemned by other neighboring countries and the wider world . Image: Taiwan’s Prime Minister Su Tseng-chang. Photo: AP Beijing admits there were real shots but that they were “precision missile strikes” as part of exercises by its navy, air force and other parts in six zones surrounding the island....

Here are three elements from the first match of the spring championship: Big names … just not on the field The natural problem facing all start-up football leagues is that the top talent is in the NFL. This leads to a ceiling on the quality of football that is shown, and this was evident from time to time throughout Saturday’s game. Except for a few players who could make the avid college football observer say “Oh, this guy!...

ROME (Reuters) – A Ukrainian and a Russian woman took part in Pope Francis’s Good Friday “Cross Street” service, but their meditation was canceled after Ukrainians protested, saying the war had made it inappropriate. The traditional Via Crucis procession to the Colosseum in Rome had been embroiled in controversy earlier this week, when the show showed that two friends, a nurse and a female nurse at a Rome hospital, were involved....

Why it matters: Texts by MP Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) in the aftermath of the 2020 election highlight the difficult path taken by some Trump supporters to the January 6 election. . The representatives of both deputies confirmed the authenticity of the texts in Axios. “The messages speak for themselves,” said Roy’s spokeswoman Nate Madden. Lee Lonsberry, Lee’s spokesman, said: “The text messages tell the same story as Senator Lee from the Senate podium the day he voted to certify the nation’s election results....