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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 831

As the war enters its 831st day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Fighting At least eight people were injured, including a one-month-old baby, after a Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s central city of Dnipro. Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, said the United States’s Read More

Sunak and Starmer clash in heated first debate of UK general election

The two men clash over tax, health and the cost of living in fractious debate that failed to land any knockout blows. The leaders of the United Kingdom’s two top political parties have faced off in their first live television debate of the election campaign, attacking each other over issues from tax to immigration and Read More

French military trainers would be ‘legitimate target’ in Ukraine: Lavrov

Ukraine has said paperwork has been signed that would allow French instructors to train Kyiv’s soldiers. Any French military instructors sent to Ukraine would be a “legitimate target” for Russian armed forces, Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov said after Ukrainian officials revealed they were seeking training assistance for their troops from France. Lavrov Read More

Rep. Miller-Meeks beats back conservative primary challenge in Iowa race

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, on Tuesday fended off a conservative GOP primary challenge, setting up what is expected to be a close race this fall with a Democratic challenger. Miller-Meeks won against David Pautsch, an advertising executive, former Army tuba player and Gold Star father in the race for the GOP’s nomination for the 1st Read More

Firearms executive wins Dem nomination in Montana gubernatorial primary

Former senior firearms sales executive Ryan Busse has won the Democrat nomination in the Montana gubernatorial race to unseat Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte in November.  While most of Montana’s statewide leadership are currently Republican, the state’s governor’s seat was occupied by a Democrat for nearly a decade before being flipped red in 2020 by Gianforte. Read More

Former Navy SEAL Ryan Zinke wins GOP Montana primary

Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., has won the Republican primary against Mary Todd in the race to hold onto his Big Sky State seat in Montana’s 1st Congressional District. Zinke served as Secretary of the Interior under former President Trump for several years before launching a successful bid for Montana’s newly drawn district in the 2022 Read More