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Elizabeth Gilbert halts release of a new book after outcry over its Russian setting

The Snow Forest by the author of Eat, Pray, Love was set to be released in February 2024, exactly two years after Russia invaded Ukraine. The backlash included hundreds of negative GoodReads reviews.

WEKU

Ukraine troops liberate four villages as stepped-up action puts Russians on the run

Soldiers seized communities in the Vremivka Ledge area of Donetsk in the south east, beat back assaults in the frontline town of Avdiivka and gained half a mile in the Bakhmut region

Daily Mirror

Media shooting itself in the foot

Comment: RNZ is struggling to control the damage after a rogue journalist started changing international news agency copy without any oversight. Mark Jennings looks at the impact this and other recent misjudgments by news organisations will have on trust in the media.

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Too soon to say where counteroffensive going, US says, but Washington confident Kyiv will prevail – as it happened

US secretary of state Antony Blinken says Ukraine should expect ‘robust’ political and practical support from the Nato summit

The Guardian - AU

How significant is the reported recapture of the first Ukrainian villages from Russia?

Resistance appears to have won back Storozheve, Blahodatne, Neskuchne and Makarivka in Donetsk

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Gilbert delays release of novel set in Russia, citing objections from Ukrainian readers

Author Elizabeth Gilbert is delaying publication of a novel she had set in Russia after she said she received an outpouring of “anger, sorrow, disappointment and pain” from Ukrainian readers who objected to releasing any work about Russia amid that country’s invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

Latest in Ukraine: The counteroffensive is on, so is massive flooding

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Cash-strapped Pakistan welcomes arrival of first shipment of discounted crude from Russia

Pakistan's government has welcomed the arrival of the first shipment of discounted crude from Russia under a key Islamabad-Moscow deal

The Independent UK

Eat, Pray, Love author withdraws new Russia-set novel from publication

Elizabeth Gilbert says now is ‘not the time for this book to be published’, following anger from Ukrainian readers over The Snow Forest, set in Siberia

The Guardian - UK

Putin uses public holiday to laud patriotic feelings as support for troops in Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin on Monday marked the Day of Russia national holiday by lauding the country’s patriotic tradition as a support for soldiers fighting in Ukraine

The Independent UK

How Latin America became the battleground in Cold War 2.0

Latin America is serving as a proxy battleground for a new Cold War as China, Iran and Russia seek to build influence, exploit resources and undermine the United States in the region.

The Week

Adored, scorned, impossible to ignore in life, Berlusconi in death draws tributes even from critics

Adored, scorned, impossible to ignore in life, Silvio Berlusconi in death drew tributes even from critics, and ever more lush praise from admirers, including Russian President Vladimir Putin

The Independent UK

5 new mysteries and thrillers for the start of summer

These new releases might take you from Europe to Africa to the Middle East to Russia and the United States — without leaving your hammock.

WEKU

Vladimir Putin appeals to Russians’ patriotism on national day

Vladimir Putin has marked Russia's national day by appealing to Russians' patriotic pride, saying it is a "difficult time" for the country.

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The Independent UK

Watchdog: Nuclear states modernize their weapons, Chinese arsenal is growing

A report on the world's nuclear weapons says the nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their arsenals and several of them deployed new nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable weapons systems in 2022

Al Jazeera

Pakistan gets first shipment of Russian crude under discount deal

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif calls arrival of the Russian crude a ‘transformative day’ for the crisis-ridden country.

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine accuses Russia of destroying another dam to slow counteroffensive

A week after Kakhovka dam collapse, Kyiv says smaller dam along Mokri Yaly river in Donetsk region has been blown up

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 474 of the invasion

Ukraine claims to have liberated frontline villages in western Donetsk; cooling ponds at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant are ‘stable and sufficient’

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The Independent UK

Mapped: Ukraine claims four villages captured in first gains of counteroffensive

Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukrainian ‘counteroffensive operations’ have started

France 24

A new Iron Curtain? Finland bolsters border with neighbouring Russia

In this week's Focus, we turn to the tense frontier between Russia and Finland. The rapport between these neighbouring nations has soured significantly in the wake of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine. Historically, their mutual border has been a theatre of confrontation and conflict. Currently, Finland is taking drastic measures…

Bangkok Post

China expands nuclear arsenal as global tensions grow: study

STOCKHOLM: The nuclear arsenals of several countries, especially China, grew last year and other atomic powers continued to modernise theirs as geopolitical tensions rise, researchers said Monday.

Al Jazeera

China, other states, fortify nuclear weapons arsenals: Report

Think tank says China had 17 percent more nuclear warheads in January 2023 compared with the year before.

The Independent UK

From GPS-guided bombs to electronic warfare, Russia improves its weaponry in Ukraine

As Ukrainian troops probe Russian defenses, Kyiv’s forces face an enemy that has made mistakes and suffered setbacks in the 15-month-old war

Radio France Internationale

NATO begins biggest ever air drills over Europe in show of force against Russia

NATO has begun the largest European air drills in its history as the military alliance seeks to demonstrate to potential adversaries that it is prepared to defend "every centimetre" of its members' territory.

France 24

Counteroffensive fighting 'tough', but Ukraine 'moving forward', says Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that fighting in a long-awaited offensive against Russian forces was "tough" but claimed Kyiv was "moving forward." Kyiv on Monday said it had wrested seven villages in eastern and southern Ukraine from Russian forces since the weekend. The claims could not be independently verified.…

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