George and Amal Clooney have pledged to do whatever they can to help their adopted French community recover after fires forced them from their luxury property.
Glen Hansard, a singer-songwriter who was the frontman of popular Irish band the Frames and who shared an Oscar for “Falling Slowly,” a song from the 2006 film “Once,” died Wednesday in Dublin.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The continent is experiencing some of its biggest fires and highest temperatures ever. Residents are fleeing, leaders are struggling to respond and ‘it will get worse’.
Ukrainian forces hit one of Russia’s biggest oil refineries in its latest deep strike as Kyiv extended economic, military and diplomatic pressure on Moscow.
Wildfires in France and Spain that forced the evacuation of more than 300,000 people have stabilised, but extreme heat is forecast to return in the coming days.
It was the latest major crackdown on Big Tech by Brussels, which has led the world in reining in some of the world’s largest companies from Silicon Valley to Beijing.
Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi faces a balancing act between asserting the independence favoured by military reformers and accommodating political input on battlefield strategy.