The European Union plans to invest around $104 billion to rebuild Ukrainian infrastructure destroyed during Russia’s invasion. The European Investment Bank aims to create an EU-Ukraine Gateway Trust Fund through which EU countries will contribute to Ukraine’s recovery in the form of grants, loans and guarantees, Reuters reported on Monday. The investment plan comes as Russia has decimated infrastructure with missile and artillery attacks across Ukraine, but especially in its eastern region....

“We always talk about it and we intend to prove it,” he added. Zelensky spoke to CNN as one of his top Western allies, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, announced he would resign. Speaking in Ukrainian through a translator, Zelensky said he was confident Britain’s policy towards Ukraine “will not change” even if the country’s leadership is in turmoil. “He resigned not because he was in Ukraine. On the contrary, I think what Johnson did for Ukraine helped us a lot....

Garoppolo has a broken leg, Little said. “How long has he been out?” Shanahan said. “It’s probably six months, at least,” Little told Shanahan. “It will be the whole season.” Shanahan is back at work. Miami 10, San Francisco 10. Tua Tagovailoa vs., now Mr. Irrelevant, Brock Purdy, last pick in 2022 draft. Shanahan had a vital game to win and a one-game lead in the NFC West to protect....

A senior director of the AgriFood Analytics Laboratory at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia calls the global food situation increasingly dire, but some relief is on the way. Sylvain Charlebois says you have to go back more than a decade to find the same level of food insecurity on a global basis, however, prices are expected to decrease. Commodity prices are falling, Charlebois says, meaning Newfoundlanders and Labradorians could see grocery prices peak between July and September....

Comment Jerry Harris, a former star of the Netflix documentary series “Cheer,” was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison for soliciting explicit photos and soliciting sex from teenagers at cheerleading competitions, the Associated Press reported. U.S. District Judge Manish Shah asked Harris to view the sentence as “an expression of the seriousness of your crimes, with some hope that all is not lost for you or your victims and that in the future some healing may come....

The CDU said it was acting on an earlier commitment by the German government made in late April to supply Ukraine with heavy weapons. “For the Ukrainian military, it’s a matter of quickly sending reliable hardware that can be deployed immediately to the front line. Such material is in the inventory of the Bundeswehr and is to be withdrawn from use by the Bundeswehr: the Fuchs armored personnel carrier,” the application states....

Ragnarok’s fancy collector’s editions and Jötnar editions were also revealed — both of which come with a 16-inch replica of Thor’s hammer Mjölnir, along with various other physical and digital extras. Each includes a steelbook case, but includes a digital download code instead of a game disc. If you don’t need the clutter, you could opt for the standard or digital deluxe editions — the latter comes with in-game items and various non-physical extras....

The audience sat quietly during a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the same time the attack began on Dec. 7, 1941. Sailors aboard the USS Daniel Inouye stood along the rails of the guided missile destroyer while it passed both by the grassy shoreline where the ceremony was held and the USS Arizona Memorial to honor the survivors and those killed in the attack. Ken Stevens, a 100-year-old survivor from the USS Whitney, returned the salute....

The Labor Department on Wednesday said there were a seasonally adjusted 11.3 million job openings in May, a decrease from the upwardly revised 11.7 million the prior month. The number of times workers quit their jobs also fell slightly to 4.3 million from the prior month.

Sign up to our free US news bulletin sent straight to your inbox each weekday morning Sign up to our free morning US email news bulletin Police in Moscow investigating the brutal stabbing murders of four University of Idaho students have pushed back against a rumor about one of the victim’s dogs as students have started returning to the college town after the Thanksgiving break. Kaylee Goncalves’ pet dog was found inside the home when the bodies of the 21-year-old, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were discovered at around noon on November 13....

SASKATUN – A center that can develop up to 40 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine a year has opened in Saskatoon, and officials say it may soon be rolling out vaccines across North America and Europe. The University of Saskatchewan Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Agency has completed construction of the Level 3 Restriction Facility, considered the largest in Canada. It is able to produce vaccines for both humans and animals for dangerous viruses....

Israel’s military said it intercepted three drones fired by Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement towards an offshore gas field in the Mediterranean. “Three enemy drones approaching the airspace in Israel’s economic waters were intercepted,” the military said in a statement on Saturday, adding that the drones were headed for the Karish gas field, which is partly claimed by Lebanon. The drones were not armed and did not pose a threat, Israeli military sources said....

Kraus hatte trotz leichter Erkältung alle ihre ersten drei Matches nach einem zweistündigen Match in drei Sätzen gewonnen, zweimal nach Satzrückstand. Im Halbfinale unterschritt er diesmal die Zwei-Stunden-Marke, musste aber erneut hart kämpfen und konnte die nächste Entscheidungsrunde mit einem Schlag abwehren. Im ersten und zweiten Satz stand es aus ihrer Sicht 1:3 und 30:40 (mit dem Breakball zum Doppelbreak gegen sie), im zweiten Teil verwandelte die Wienerin ebenfalls vom 3:5 zum 7:5....

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot could make multiple subpoenas to former President Donald Trump’s Justice Department for its role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), vice chair committee chairman, he said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. “The Justice Department doesn’t have to wait for the committee to indict,” Cheney said on ABC’s “This Week.” “And there could be more than one criminal citation....

Competitive eating phenomenon Joey Chestnut captured his 15th title Monday in the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, an annual Independence Day tradition in New York’s Coney Island The weight warrior downed 63 hot dogs and buns in front of thousands of noisy, sun-drenched Fourth of July revelers — many shamelessly wearing Nathan’s famous Styrofoam hot dog hats. The hot dog total was well short of the record of 76 frankfurters eaten last year by Chestnut, 38, of Indiana....

Le contenu Image de couverture : LAURENT VAN DER STOCKT POUR « LE MONDE » La prise de Lyssytchansk permettrait à l’armée russe d’avancer sur Sloviansk, à une soixantaine de kilomètres à l’ouest, déjà sous le feu de l’artillerie russe, et Kramatorsk, autre grande ville du Donbass dont les habitants vivent au son des bombardements et des sirènes d’alerte. Alexandre Loukachenko accuse l’Ukraine d’avoir tiré des missiles sur la Biélorussie....

Le jeune orque, retrouvé mort dans la Seine le 30 mai, n’a pas livré tous ses secrets. Selon les résultats de l’autopsie pratiquée sur le cétacé, rendus publics mercredi 6 juillet par la préfecture de Seine-Maritime, les analyses ont révélé la présence d’une balle à la base du crâne du cétacé. Cependant, ces munitions n’auraient pas été la cause de sa mort, les enquêteurs privilégiant le déroulement d’un état de faiblesse majeur....

Creasy said it would wait for lawmakers to vote on the issue for free, as a matter of conscience. He told the Guardian that the amendment would be tabled when the bill was read out at second reading. “Most women in the UK do not realize that abortion is not a right, but there is only one law that excludes persecution in some cases,” she said. “What the United States is teaching us is that we can not be complacent about enshrining these rights in law....

At least 51 people have been found dead, “stacked” inside a tractor-trailer truck near San Antonio, Texas, in what authorities believe may be the deadliest human trafficking incident in modern U.S. history. Another 16 people, including four children, were taken to local hospitals under different conditions, according to officials. Police arrested three people. The US Department of Homeland Security is conducting an investigation. A city worker heard a cry for help from an abandoned truck before discovering the gruesome scene Monday, according to San Antonio Police Chief William McManus....