Russia bombs Kyiv
At least 5 missiles hit Kyiv early yesterday, the primary Russian strike in Ukraine’s capital in over a month. Russia stated the missiles destroyed tanks and armored autos provided by Ukraine’s Eastern European allies. At least one individual was injured, officers stated.
The assault, after 100 days of conflict, got here as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, warned that Moscow would hit targets it had to date averted if Western nations started delivering longer-range missiles to Ukraine. Follow the newest updates from the conflict.
The U.S. has warned that the Kremlin is making an attempt to revenue from its bombing and plundering of Ukraine’s grain manufacturing by promoting stolen wheat to drought-stricken international locations in Africa. Those international locations probably face a tough selection between displeasing a strong Western ally and refusing low-cost meals at a time when wheat costs are hovering and a whole bunch of hundreds of persons are ravenous.
The east: Combat continued to rage across the contested metropolis of Sievierodonetsk. Powerful explosions had been additionally heard in and round Kramatorsk, the capital of Ukrainian-controlled areas of the Donetsk area.
For Britons, Jubilee gives a short respite
Millions of Britons wrapped up a joyful four-day tribute to Queen Elizabeth II and her 70-year reign. Yet the temporary, candy pleasures of a protracted weekend in late spring belied a nationwide temper that has been reasonably bitter because the nation faces political ruptures and worries of stagflation, the double-whammy of recession and inflation.
An extended-simmering scandal over lockdown-breaking events at 10 Downing Street threatens to boil over: On Friday, boos drowned out cheers as Boris Johnson, the prime minister, entered St. Paul’s Cathedral for a service of thanksgiving for the queen. He could face a no-confidence vote as quickly as this week, in accordance with experiences within the British media.
Even if Johnson survives the vote, some predict he’ll face a winter of distress, because the nation offers with surging meals and gas costs. The International Monetary Fund estimated final month that shopper costs would soar 13 p.c this 12 months and subsequent. Other forecasters stated a recession was unavoidable.
Jubilee look: The queen, clad in inexperienced, emerged on the balcony at Buckingham Palace yesterday — one among two such appearances in the course of the celebration — after lacking many of the festivities due to hassle strolling. At a live performance the night time earlier than, she stole the present with a prerecorded sequence with Paddington Bear, voiced by the actor Ben Whishaw.
Biden’s ‘bad options’ for bringing down oil costs
President Biden’s deliberate assembly this summer season with Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, is simply the newest signal that oil has once more regained its centrality in geopolitics.
Biden has few instruments to deliver down prices on the pump, particularly when Russia, one of many world’s largest vitality producers, has began an unprovoked conflict towards a smaller neighbor. Two different oil-producing international locations that would improve manufacturing — Iran and Venezuela — have largely been lower out of the worldwide market by Western sanctions.
The U.S. is the world’s greatest oil and pure fuel producer, nevertheless it accounts for under about 12 p.c of the worldwide petroleum provide. The value of oil can nonetheless shoot up or tumble relying on occasions midway world wide. And when gas costs rise, shoppers can flip towards presidents who appear unwilling or unable to deliver them again down.
Analysis: “A president has to try,” stated Bill Richardson, an vitality secretary within the Clinton administration. “Unfortunately, there are only bad options. And any alternative options are probably worse than asking the Saudis to increase production.”
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Rewriting New York’s artwork historical past
Many artwork lovers can simply call to mind the work of the sculptor Louise Bourgeois — looming figures, by flip pneumatic or spindly; spiders and their derivatives; unseeing black eyes as tall as a baby.
But Bourgeois additionally made greater than 100 work in her first decade in New York, and lots of are unknown even to her greatest followers. Nearly half these work are actually on view on the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, Roberta Smith writes for The Times. Roughly a 3rd haven’t been proven in a long time, if ever.
The work are principally self-portraits and more and more sculpture-haunted. Others are expressions of maternal anxiousness and loneliness. “And some of Bourgeois’s paintings refer, intentionally or not, to larger horrors than herself — a woman desperate to be an artist,” Roberta writes.
Bourgeois’s radiant works disrupt the favored conception of New York portray within the Forties as a principally male endeavor, she writes: “They powerfully reflect her conviction that she has something to say and her own way of saying it.”
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