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🔴Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged his nation to stay strong as it suffers "painful losses" in the key cities of Severodonetsk and Kharkiv amid the fight for territory.

Follow all the latest on our #Ukraine liveblog here ⬇️
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🔴Some 500 civilians believed to be trapped alongside soldiers inside Azot, a chemical factory in Severodonetsk, are preparing to flee the city through a possible humanitarian corridor this morning
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… A man holds his baby inside Azot chemical plant's bomb shelt
🔴NEW:Ukrainian troops close in on Kherson after counter-attacks

Follow the latest updates on our #Liveblog here ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… An elderly woman sits at the entrance of an apartment buildi
🔴New: Kremlin cruise missile strike 'destroys Nato-supplied howitzers'

Follow the latest updates on our #Ukraine liveblog here ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Russia's cruise missile attack targeted howitzers provided t
🔴Ukraine pleaded with Western governments to decide quickly on sending heavy weapons to shore up its faltering defences, as Russia said it would evacuate civilians from a frontline chemical plant

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🇬🇧🇺🇦 Britain will soon deliver multiple-launch rocket systems to Ukraine in response to its request for arms to repel the Russian invasion, Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary, said today

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Ukraine's Presiden
🇪🇺🇺🇦 The European Union's executive is expected to propose on Friday that Ukraine become a formal candidate for membership of the bloc, diplomats and officials say, a significant political gesture to the country as it resists Russia's invasion.

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… The European Union flags flutter   Credit: REUTERS/Yves Herm
🇺🇸 The U.S. is expected to announce Wednesday that it will send about $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine, the largest single tranche of weapons and equipment since the war began, in a effort to help stall Russia's progress in the Donbas

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… US President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn of the White

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🚨 BREAKING: Two former US servicemen have been captured during fighting with Russian forces in Ukraine, the Telegraph has been told. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
The pair were taken prisoner during a fierce battle outside the north-east city of Kharkiv last week, according to comrades who were fighting alongside them
🇺🇸 Alexander Drueke, 39, and Andy Huynh, 27, had been serving as volunteers with a regular Ukrainian army unit. They are believed to be the first US servicemen to end up as Russian prisoners of war

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🔴European judges blocked a British government flight to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda in a last-minute move on Tuesday night.

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➡️The ECHR told the Government that the man, named only as KN, should not be removed until three weeks after the final domestic court decision in a judicial review into his deportation
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🤖Google’s AI expert on his ‘sentient’ chatbot: ‘It’s like a child that wants to be loved’

Blake Lemoine’s revelations have caused uproar – we caught up with him to find out more about LaMDA, the artificial intelligence bot

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⚠️Over the weekend, the Google engineer gave an interview accusing the company’s AI chatbot of being “sentient” – and all hell broke loose
💻LaMDA, which stands for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, is a bot that sucks in vast quantities of information from the internet
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🔴 Rwanda deportation flight blocked by European judges

Asylum seeker wins injunction to remove him from plane, just hours after UK court had rejected his plea, with others expected to follow suit ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
European human rights judges made an 11th-hour intervention on Tuesday night to block the deportation of the first migrants to Rwanda
🗣️ The European Court of Human Rights granted an urgent injunction to one of the asylum seekers to remove him from the flight, just hours after the UK Supreme Court had rejected his plea

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… The Boeing 747 charter flight had been waiting at RAF Boscom
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The families of the victims are still no closer to getting answers as to what happened – no one has been charged for any crime

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Marlene Anderson breaks down in tears as she remembers watching Grenfell Tower burning.

Ray ‘Moses’ Bernard, her father, died of suffocation and cyanide poisoning killed by the acrid smoke. When his body was recovered, “his remains were no more than 30 per cent of who he was”
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🗣️Wagwan?

Street slang is to be Britain’s main dialect

Multicultural London English could be the future of British English, say experts

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💬Multicultural London English could become Britain’s dominant dialect within 100 years, academics have said, as inner-city slang goes mainstream Commuters board a bus at a ...
🗣️The dialect known for terms like “peng” and using “man” as a pronoun emerged among the children of immigrants in the UK’s capital.

But the argot of the urban youth could be the future of British English Houses of Parliament, Thame...
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