Kherson: Ukraine claims new push in Russian-held region
By Leo Sands & Yaroslav Lukov
BBC News
Ukraine's military claims to have broken through Russia's first line of defence in the occupied Kherson region.
The reported push appears to form part of a long-awaited offensive being launched by Kyiv in an attempt to retake the country's south.
It follows weeks of Ukrainian attacks aimed at cutting off Russian forces there from main supply routes.
Russia's military has not commented on Ukraine's claim, but one official said this was "yet another fake".
Major sea-level rise caused by melting of Greenland ice cap is ‘now inevitable’
Major sea-level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice cap is now inevitable, scientists have found, even if the fossil fuel burning that is driving the climate crisis were to end overnight.
The research shows the global heating to date will cause an absolute minimum sea-level rise of 27cm (10.6in) from Greenland alone as 110tn tonnes of ice melt. With continued carbon emissions, the melting of other ice caps and thermal expansion of the ocean, a multi-metre sea-level rise appears likely.
Billions of people live in coastal regions, making flooding due to rising sea levels one of the greatest long-term impacts of the climate crisis. If Greenland’s record melt year of 2012 becomes a routine occurrence later this century, as is possible, then the ice cap will deliver a “staggering” 78cm of sea-level rise, the scientists said.
Black Sea dolphins casualties of Russia's war in Ukraine
Pacing up and down a beach of fine white sand on the Black Sea coast, 63 year-old Ukrainian scientist Ivan Rusev breathes a sigh of relief: he did not find any dead dolphins today.
A few moments earlier he had rushed towards what he thought was a stranded dolphin. Mercifully it turned out only to be "tangled fishing gear".
Rusev spoke to AFP from the Tuzly Estuaries National Nature Park, a protected area of 280 square kilometres (108 square miles) in the Bessarabia region of south-west Ukraine.
Rusev, whose weather-beaten face is shaded by a hat he brought during adventures in central Asia, is the scientific director of the park.
Opposition CDPJ asks Kishida to explain Abe's state funeral
A senior lawmaker of the main opposition party asked Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday to attend parliamentary committee sessions to explain the grounds for holding a state funeral next month for assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The public is split over the decision to hold the state funeral given Abe's divisive political legacy and scandals, as the government continues to make preparations to receive thousands of mourners including foreign dignitaries at the Sept 27 event at an indoor arena in Tokyo.
Jun Azumi, the Diet affairs chief of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, told reporters after making the request to his counterpart from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party that the prime minister should explain the decision "to the people in his own words in parliament."
Supporters storm gov’t HQ after Sadr ‘withdraws’ from politics
Iraq’s powerful Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr announced he is quitting political life for good and closing his political offices in a move that could further inflame tensions in the country.
The statement, published on Twitter on Monday, comes amid months of protests by his supporters backing his call for the dissolution of the Iraqi parliament, which has seen 10 months of deadlock – representing the longest Iraq has gone without a government – and for new elections to be held.
Why China's response to US warships in Taiwan Strait surprised analysts
Updated 0753 GMT (1553 HKT) August 29, 2022
After United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in early August, the Chinese military staged some of its biggest ever military exercises around the island.
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