After years of relative calm, a western Ukrainian city comes to terms with being in Russia’s crosshairs

People gather at an aid station in Lutsk after a mass Russian attack on June 6 (State Emergency Service/Facebook) Editor’s note: Journalists from  misto.media contributed to the reporting of this article. Located... Read more »

Salt Path author Raynor Winn responds to claims she lied about ‘true’ story | Ents & Arts News

Salt Path author Raynor Winn has said claims she lied about her story are “highly misleading” and called suggestions her husband made up his illness “utterly vile”. A report in The Observer... Read more »

UK politics: Send children’s legal rights to extra support will be protected, says education secretary – as it happened | Politics

Phillipson says government will protect ‘legal right to additional support’ that Send children need Trott also asked Phillipson to confirm that no child would lose extra support they are currently getting through... Read more »

Caught between the Senedd and Westminster, Welsh Labour risks collapsing loyalty | Welsh politics

Playing Tom Jones and Catatonia at the decks and later taking to the dancefloor wrapped in a Welsh flag, Eluned Morgan, at least, was having a good time at the Welsh Labour... Read more »

Day 1,231: U.S. sending more defensive weapons to Ukraine, Pentagon says

The U.S. is sending more defensive weapons to Ukraine, the Pentagon says. Trump promised to immediately send 10 Patriot missiles to Ukraine after speaking to Zelenskyi on Friday, Axios said. Ukrainian troops... Read more »

UK government abandons energy ‘zonal pricing’ plan | Energy bills

The government has abandoned plans for “zonal pricing” that would have charged electricity users in the south-east of England more than those in Scotland, saying that a single national price would help... Read more »

By learning to wield political power, Greens could fill the void at the heart of British politics | Adam Ramsay

The Green party leadership election – by far the highest-profile in the party’s history – has largely been seen through the traditional lens of left and centre. On the one hand is... Read more »

Last orders: Pubs in Britain will close at rate of one a day in 2025, trade body warns | Hospitality industry

British pubs will close down at the rate of one a day this year, the industry’s trade body has warned, blaming high business taxes. At the same time, the hospitality sector has... Read more »

‘We need to learn how to live without America’ — Ukraine’s survival amid faltering U.S. aid

U.S. President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, July 8, 2025 (Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Ukrainians breathed a sigh of relief... Read more »

Kremlin exacts loyalty amid tightening crackdown on Russian elite

Russian President Vladimir Putin applauds during the ‘All For The Victory’ forum, which promotes victory over Ukraine, on July 6, 2025 in Moscow, Russia. The event is hosted by People’s United Front,... Read more »