This could mean a forced exit from the project for Shell and Japan’s Mitsui and Mitsubishi, which are minority shareholders in Sakhalin Energy Investment Co. Shell already said it would leave the project a few months ago and has since then been looking for buyers for its stake in Sakhalin-2. According to earlier reports, a sale could be made to a group of Indian companies. The Japanese companies, however, have not announced intentions to leave the project....

A soldier in a Ukrainian uniform contemplates the ruins of an Orthodox monastery in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. “This is a result of Putin’s war,” he says angrily, walking through the wreckage. “As a Christian, this is very offensive to me.” The soldier, whose name CNN agreed to withhold to protect his identity, says the callsign “Caesar.” He is one of hundreds, if not thousands, fighting to keep the city of Bakhmut, the current focus of the war, in Ukrainian hands....

The Saudis prefer to maintain close ties with Russia in oil policy, as the OPEC+ pact and control of a large part of the world’s oil supply have benefited both OPEC+ leaders — the Kingdom and Russia — over the past half-decade. Saudi Arabia, however, could use a little thaw in Saudi-US relations under President Biden, who no longer refers to the world’s top crude exporter as a “pariah” state....

Hutchinson’s testimony was so astonishing, Meyers said, that even Fox News “tried to summarize what happened, and when it was over, they just sat there in an awkward silence trying to figure out whose turn it was to speak.” The moment was “like when you get in the car with your parents after they took you to a movie that had a lot more nudity than they expected,” said the Late Night presenter....

“We still don’t know what exactly killed our children. But we know the law was broken that night, and probably many nights before that,” Ramaphosa told more than a thousand mourners at the funeral in East London for the youths who died in a pub nearly two weeks ago. “We are losing our future generation to the scourge of underage alcohol,” the president said, calling on police to determine the exact cause of their deaths and calling on officials to prevent young people from accessing bars....

Most of the rain in the Iberian Peninsula falls in winter as moist low pressure systems blow in from the Atlantic. But a high pressure system off the coast, called the Azores high, can block wet weather fronts. The researchers found that winters with “extraordinarily large” Azores highs have increased dramatically from one winter in 10 before 1850 to one in four since 1980. These extremes also push wet weather northward, making it more likely rainfall in northern UK and Scandinavia....

RCMP officials confirm 19-year-old Josh Burns was found dead shortly after midnight on July 4 when officers responded to reports of a homicide at a local business. Solaimane Elbettah, 27, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with Burns’ death. Both the victim and the accused are residents of Sudre, a town about 100 kilometers north of Calgary, but neither is from the city. Friends of the deceased confirm that Burns was from the town of Innisfail but had moved to Sundre for work....

Nobody knows that better than the Brooklyn Nets, who are now trying to find a new home for disgruntled superstar Kevin Durant. The Phoenix Suns appear to be the frontrunner to trade for Durant, and there are a few reasons why. First, Durant wants to go there, and while the Nets can ignore his wishes — Durant is under contract for four more years — things go more smoothly if everyone is happy....

Content of the article Police allege Claire Miller, 14, made the shocking declaration after being served breakfast at a prison McD that she “loved it,” the Harrisburg Patriot-News reports. Miller is accused of stabbing to death her sleeping sister Ellen, 19, in 2021. The dead woman had cerebral palsy and was confined to a wheelchair. “Oh, McDonald’s,” Manheim Township Police Officer John Martin told Miller during a court hearing. “I would have killed someone sooner if I knew I was going to get McDonald’s....

1 Russia yesterday claimed control of a key city in eastern Ukraine. Where? Lysychansk, the last major Ukrainian stronghold in the Luhansk region, which borders Russia. Ukrainian forces withdrew after weeks of fierce fighting. What it means: The loss gives Russia access to seize much of the rest of eastern Ukraine, its main target. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to retake the city. 2 Ohio police released video of officers shooting a black man dozens of times....

On Saturday, BC RCMP named the 22-year-old Duncan brothers as the two dead shooters from Tuesday’s fatal incident. CHEK News spoke to a former classmate of the twin brothers on condition of anonymity. The woman says she had classes with the brothers and was in their class when she graduated. He described the two as “very shy”. “They tended to keep to themselves and not get involved as much. I think in the last years of high school they started branching out a little bit more and making some friends,” the woman said....

It rises from 1.7 million people last week and is the highest estimate for total infections since late April. However, it is still below the high record of 4.9 million reached at the end of March. Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5 are probably behind the latest increase, the National Statistics Office said. They are considered to be the most dominant executives in the United Kingdom. The virus continues to be more prevalent in Scotland, where 288,200 people were likely to test positive for COVID last week, or one in 18....

The three major US stock indexes spent much of the session oscillating between red and green. The Nasdaq joined the S&P 500, closing lower in nominal terms, while the blue-chip Dow rose moderately. “The market is struggling to find direction,” said Megan Hormann, Verdence Capital Advisors’ chief investment officer in Hunt Valley, Maryland. “We have had disappointing data and the markets are waiting for the profit period, when we will have more clarity” in relation to future profits and the economic slowdown....

Judges have curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority over emissions from coal-fired power plants in a 19-state Republican-backed fossil fuel-led state led by West Virginia. The decision closes a nearly decade-long legal battle that began under the Obama administration and could bring President Biden’s ambitious plans to halve domestic emissions by 2030. “The Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia against the EPA is another catastrophic decision that aims to push our country backwards,” President Biden said in a statement....

Police say they dragged a car and arrested two Belgians in their 20s after the four elegantly dressed thieves staged the European Fine Arts Exhibition (Tefaf) in the southern city of Maastricht on Tuesday. Dramatic images on social media showed the robbers threatening people with weapons, before fleeing with an unknown amount of what the police called “loot”. The venue was evacuated, but visitors later returned to the exhibition, which has been watched by tens of thousands of people for several days....

Police were called to Anoka Street, near Bank and Heron Road, around 10:30 p.m. Two people were found stabbed to death and another was taken to hospital with stab wounds, police said. Police say another man died after “interacting with police” at the scene. The Special Investigation Unit is investigating the death. The SIU is investigating incidents involving police where there is death or serious injury. More to follow…