THE NEW YORK TIMES: A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.
The World Health Organisation has questioned Russian officials on reports of a second pneumonia case linked to a Siberian plague research lab already under scrutiny after the death of a young researcher.
THE WASHINGTON POST: The former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of ‘treasonous espionage,’ including seeking to hand state secrets to foreign governments.
Dozens of people have been injured and hundreds arrested, officials say, in French student protests against teacher shortages and dilapidated buildings.
Putin’s forces target communication infrastructure, with the latest round of deadly strikes matching the intensity of the opening days of Russia’s Ukraine invasion.
The populist emphasis on national identity and threats to it, real and imagined, finds a deep response in voters adrift in a world they no longer understand.