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Trump unveils new education policy loaded with culture war proposals
“As the expressing goes, personnel is plan and at the conclusion of the day if we have pink-haired communists teaching our youngsters we have a main problem,” Trump reported. “We’re at the end of the record on schooling and but we spend the most, but we’re going to be tops in education and learning no subject where you go everywhere in the planet.” While significant swaths of schooling policy are dictated by point out and neighborhood governments, Trump’s proposals still symbolize a radical departure from prolonged-standing approaches. Taken in whole, they characterize an try by the previous president to set his have imprint on debates close to the nation’s faculty…
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Russia-Ukraine war live: mayor reports at least one dead in Kyiv after wave of Russian missiles | Ukraine
At least one killed, two wounded after missile attack on Kyiv – mayor Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko has posted to Telegram to say that at least one person has been killed as a result of this morning’s attacks. He writes: As a result of a rocket hitting a non-residential building in the Holosivskyi district, there is currently information about one dead and two wounded. The injured were hospitalised by medics. Updated at 05.59 EST Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature In Odesa, Suspilne reports that the utility company DTEK says “due to damage to the energy infrastructure, emergency power outages may last for…
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Russia-Ukraine war live news: drone strike on Kyiv; UK to announce new artillery package | Ukraine
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Summary The time in Kyiv is nearly 1pm. Here is a round-up of the day’s stories so far: At least two powerful explosions rocked Ukraine’s capital in the early hours of Monday morning, as officials claim the city was hit by a series of Russian drones. Multiple local news sources reported the blasts in central Kyiv. Several loud blasts were also heard in the city’s surrounding regions, Reuters witnesses reported. A fire was also reported in Kyiv’s central Shevchenkivskyi district. Ukraine’s air force says it shot down 30 out of 35 Russian-launched Shahed drones overnight. The…
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EXPLAINER: Can Ukraine pay for war without wrecking economy?
FRANKFURT, Germany — Even as Ukraine celebrates modern battlefield victories, its federal government faces a looming obstacle on the financial front: how to shell out the tremendous value of the war effort and hard work without having triggering out-of-manage rate spikes for regular persons or piling up financial debt that could hamper postwar reconstruction. The wrestle is obtaining financial loans or donations to go over a huge funds deficit for subsequent year — and do it without the need of making use of central financial institution bailouts that danger wrecking Ukraine’s currency, the hryvnia. Economists performing with the authorities say that if Ukraine can shore up its funds by way…
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Russia-Ukraine war live: more explosives found in Spain after Ukraine embassy incident; Zaporizhzhia engineer accused of collaborating | Ukraine
Spanish police investigate four more incendiary devices and letter bombs Sam Jones Police in Spain are investigating four more incendiary devices and letter bombs, a day after one exploded at Ukraine’s embassy in Madrid. The devices have now been sent to the prime minister, the defence ministry, an arms company that makes rocket launchers donated to Kyiv, and a military airbase near the Spanish capital, as well as the one found at the embassy. The first letter bomb exploded when it was opened by an embassy employee on Wednesday, causing minor injuries to the worker’s hands and leading Ukraine to warn its diplomats to bolster their security precautions. The second,…
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Russia-Ukraine war live: Kyiv monastery raided amid Russian spying fears; Moscow ‘not aiming to change Ukraine regime’ | Ukraine
1,000-year-old Kyiv monastery raided amid Russian spy fears Ukraine’s SBU security service and police raided a 1,000-year-old Orthodox Christian monastery in Kyiv early on Tuesday as part of operations to counter suspected “subversive activities by Russian special services”, the SBU said. The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra complex that was raided is a Ukrainian cultural treasure and the headquarters of the Russian-backed wing of the Ukrainian Orthodox church known as the Moscow Patriarchate, Reuters reported. “These measures are being taken … as part of the systemic work of the SBU to counter the destructive activities of Russian special services in Ukraine,” the Security Service of Ukraine said in a statement. It said…