🔴Russia has "strategically lost" the war in Ukraine and is now a "more diminished power" both diplomatically and economically than several months ago, the UK's armed forces chief has said.
Follow the latest updates on our #Ukraine liveblog here ⬇️
🇪🇺The European Commission will meet Friday to give its fast-tracked opinion on Ukraine's bid for EU candidacy, a step closer to membership.
Never before has an opinion been given so quickly on EU candidacy, which must be approved by all 27 member states telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴The evacuation of 568 civilians sheltering in bunkers under the Azot chemical plant in the embattled city of Sievierodonetsk is currently impossible due to shelling and heavy fighting, the governor of Ukraine's Luhansk region has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇺🇦Ukraine has taken a step closer towards joining the EU after the European Commission recommended it to be granted candidate status to join the bloc on Friday telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴The UK is set to host Eurovision in 2023 after broadcast bosses ruled that previous winner Ukraine was unable to stage the next song contest, with the BBC in talks over organising the event telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/1…
🔴NEW: Vladimir Putin's speech delayed by cyber attack
💰The tax-free payments are being offered by several unions threatening strikes this summer, and are being funded from vast “strike funds”
🚌Unite, which has threatened strikes in councils and across bus networks, has been putting up posters in local government buildings advertising its “£70 a day strike pay” to staff
🕰️British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh in November 1922.
He entered the burial chamber with Lord Carnarvon the following February.
The tomb was still intact and packed with treasures, including the sarcophagus containing Tutankhamun
🔴 Yet within six weeks of the opening, Lord Carnarvon was dead.
There followed a series of mysterious deaths of people who had either worked on the excavation or had visited the tomb, triggering a slew of newspaper articles suggesting that they were victims of an ancient curse
🔵 Boris Johnson is under attack from all sides of the Conservative Party.
The party risks suffering heavily at the ballot box next week when crucial by-elections, triggered in the wake of scandals involving former Tory MPs are held in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton
Ahead of the votes, we asked our readers why the Tories are getting it wrong and what they need to do to get it right ⤵️
🇺🇦 Russian forces have freed a celebrated Ukrainian medic who used a body camera to record her team's efforts to save the injured in the besieged city of Mariupol.
🗣️ Civilians trapped in the embattled Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk face being evacuated to areas deeper within Russian-occupied territory, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said.
🗣 Ahead of the publication of his new book, former Prime Minister @GordonBrown discusses Boris's behaviour, feeling 10 years younger and how Putin exploits weakness ⤵️
It is almost exactly 12 years to the day since an embattled Gordon Brown made his resignation speech outside No 10, clearing the way for David Cameron to form a new government with the Liberal Democrats...
But Brown has not been idling away in Fife, writes Celia Walden.
🔵 He is the UN Special Envoy for Global Education and has served as WHO Ambassador for Global Health Financing since last September. He also managed to write a book during the pandemic
From Tuesday, more than 40,000 rail workers will walk out, crippling Britain’s transport network and threatening GCSE and A-Level exams and hospital appointments
Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), has said he will not back down until workers are given a pay rise large enough to match soaring prices amid the cost of living crisis