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At the annual summit, NATO achieved some remarkable successes: Türkiye lifted its objections to Sweden’s membership; the alliance adopted new spending goals and military plans; and all 31 member states agreed that Ukraine belongs to NATO, a significant change of position stemming from Ukraine’s brave, unyielding defense of its country and Western values. .

Even so, the summit’s final communiqué was not disguised some serious tension between alliance members in a heated battle over how to describe Ukraine’s path to NATO membership. Ukraine was promised an invitation “when the allies agree and the conditions are met”, leaving both time and conditions unanswered to the astonishment of President Volodymyr Zelensky.

When Ukraine was originally promised membership in 2008, at a summit in Bucharest, the declaration was a way of masking deeper and more enduring divisions, with Germany and France completely opposes Ukraine’s membership, while Washington wants to give Kiev a clear path to accession. . That balance has now shifted.

Biden stated: U.S. president Compare the battle to expel Russia from Ukraine with the struggle for freedom in Europe during the Cold War, promising that “we will not waver” no matter how long the war continued. Russian President Vladimir Putin “still wrongly believes he can outlast Ukraine,” he said. He added: “He’s making a bad bet.”

Russian Army was disturbed by instability in the days since the brief mercenary uprising of Wagner three weeks ago, when the pressure from Moscow’s nearly 17-month war reverberated throughout the armed forces. One commander disappeared, two were killed and a fourth accused his leader of treason after being fired.

General Sergei Surovikin, the country’s former top commander in Ukraine, has not appeared publicly since the Wagner uprising. He is considered an ally of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary company, whose forces waged a brief uprising in late June, aimed at overthrowing Russia’s military leadership, before reneging on the agreement with the Kremlin.

The Times reported that US officials believe General Surovikin knew about the mutiny in advance, but did not know if he was involved. Within hours of the uprising began, Russian authorities quickly released a video of the general calling for Wagner fighters to surrender.

In other news about the war: Far-right Republicans, who are trying to roll out an annual defense bill with socially conservative policies on abortion, race and gender, have another request: severe restrictions on US military assistance for Ukraine.


Critics of the right-wing government’s plan to overhaul the country’s justice system have accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of what they call salami . tactics: shred the legal package to make it more bearable. (To prove it, some protesters brandished giant plastic sausages during this week’s protests.)

The government argues the plan simply gives more power to elected officials and gives more control over unelected Supreme Court justices, who the government deems exceeded their role. However, Mr. Netanyahu may be looking to move forward with the plan more slowly, after protests in March brought many parts of the country to a standstill.

By using a more piecemeal approach, the prime minister may be trying to appease his hardline coalition partners who insist on progress, while trying to make changes easier. to critics. Shelving the plan could mean the collapse of the government and a return to the political turmoil that has led Israel to hold five elections in the past four years.

In Jenny: President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority visited Jenin, a Palestinian city impoverished and scarred by war in the occupied West Bank, was the target of a two-day raid by the Israeli army last week.

Sophie Hughes is a literary translator, working between Spanish and English. It is “an uncompromising obsession,” she writes, that sometimes requires effort after effort — but not without its pleasures.

See how she carries a book from spanish to englishline by line.

Talk to a football legend: Zinedine Zidane talks about player development, composure in punishment and teaches imagination.

Author Milan Kundera, best known for his novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” which was made into a movie, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 94.

His lighthearted, sexually suggestive novels capture the breathless absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia, where the Communists seized power in 1948.

“It is difficult to overstate the importance of Milan Kundera, in the mid-1980s, to literary culture in America and elsewhere,” writes Dwight Garner in this review. “He is the most famous Czech writer since Kafka, and his novels bring news of sophisticated Eastern European societies trembling at the threat of Soviet repression.”

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