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The view from villagers' gardens on the northern shore of Kakhovka Reservoir has changed significantly in the four days since an explosion destroyed the nearby dam and the waters receded.Mud flats stretch for hundreds of yards, and a long sandbar has emerged from the water reaching out across the bay.

Debates over whether and how to guarantee the long-term security of Ukraine and possibly admit it to the NATO alliance took center stage on Thursday in two gatherings of dozens of leaders from Europe and North America.Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and his NATO counterparts took on the status of Ukraine at a meeting in Oslo, as well as Sweden's application to join the 31-member alliance, following months of obstruction by alliance member Turkey.

Israel said on Friday that it had struck more rocket-launching sites operated by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group, in Gaza, and the group fired rockets into Israel, reaching as far as the hills around Jerusalem, as cross-border fighting stretched into a fourth day despite overnight mediation efforts to reach a cease-fire.

A stop-and-search order has been put in place in part of west London after a man was stabbed to death on Thursday evening.Police were called to Reynolds Road in Hayes at about 18:50 BST following reports of a disturbance involving a number of men.A man was found suffering from multiple stab wounds.He was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.

Michael Gove said he believed Boris Johnson was telling the truth when he told the Privileges Committee he did not think he was breaking Covid rules when attending leaving dos in No 10.The Levelling-Up Secretary said he accepted Mr Johnson's evidence that he saw thanking departing staff during the pandemic as part of the job of leading the country through the crisis.

A man has been arrested after a police officer was stabbed in Kent.Kent Police said the officer was in a serious but stable condition after the attack in Maidstone on Thursday evening.The force was attending an address in Albion Place at around 8pm on Thursday when the assault took place.The officer was airlifted to a London hospital with injuries consistent with stab wounds, police said.

A man has been arrested on a triple murder charge after a deadly knife rampage that left three dead in Nottingham city centre.Valdo Calocane, 31, of no fixed address, was tasered and arrested after allegedly knifing 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar on Ilkeston Road, before stabbing a school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, on Magdala Road and stealing his van, in the early hours of Tuesday.

The suspect in the Nottingham knife and van attacks is a former student of the University of Nottingham, the institution said in a statement.The suspect allegedly killed three people in a brutal knife attack and then ran over three others with a stolen van.According to multiple reports, the suspect was born in Guinea-Bissau, a country on West Africa's coast.

RAF Typhoons have intercepted Russian planes flying close to Nato member airspace twice in the past 24 hours.The initial incident unfolded when the British jets took off from the Amari airbase in Estonia on Thursday evening.They were accompanied by Swedish Air Force Gripens which scrambled to intercept a Russian Air Force IL-20 COOT' A and Su-27 FLANKER' B flying close to Nato and Swedish airspace, the RAF said.

A man has been arrested after a 12-year-old boy riding a bicycle died in a collision with a car in Birmingham, West Midlands Police said.Officers were called to the incident at the junction of Coventry Road and Berkeley Road shortly after 6.15pm on Thursday evening.The boy was pronounced dead at the scene.

A British girl injured in a knife attack at a lakeside park in the French Alps is in stable condition in hospital, according to reports.The girl, said to be aged three, was one of four children and two adults wounded when the suspect identified by police as a 31-year-old Syrian attacked people with a knife in the town of Annecy on Thursday.

The Atlanta Braves farm system had a mixed bag of games on Thursday evening, with a phenomenal pitching performance in Gwinnett stealing the show.Over in Mississippi they suffered a blowout loss, but Drew Lugbauer keeps hitting long balls and now has 12 on the season.(27-33) Gwinnett Stripers 2, (28-32) Charlotte Knights 1


Vaughn Grissom, SS: 0-4, .322/.398/.480

1686230048 One of the children injured in a knife attack in a playground in France is a British national.Foreign secretary James Cleverly confirmed their nationality in a statement following multiple stabbings in the town of Annecy in the French alps.President Emmanuel Macron called the attack an act of absolute cowardice and said the nation is in shock.

1686230048 One of the children injured in a knife attack in a playground in France is a British national.Foreign secretary James Cleverly confirmed their nationality in a statement following multiple stabbings in the town of Annecy in the French alps.President Emmanuel Macron called the attack an act of absolute cowardice and said the nation is in shock.

The streets of east London were a sea of claret and blue on Thursday evening as thousands gathered for the West Ham trophy parade after their Europa Conference League victory.The parade started at the Champions Statue - which depicts the club's 1966 World Cup winners - in Barking at 19:00 BST and slowly made its way to Stratford Town Hall.

West Ham will celebrate their Europa Conference League triumph with an open-top bus parade around East London on Thursday evening.It is West Ham's first major trophy since 1980 and their first in Europe since 1965."It will be fantastic to see fans from across London fill the streets," said West Ham chairman David Sullivan.

Nikki Haley's supporters are quick to repeat a theme that has become central to her campaign: She has been underestimated before.So when Ms. Haley, the former South Carolina governor and ambassador to the United Nations, recounted on Thursday evening what the former CNN anchor Don Lemon had said about her during a recent broadcast, the crowd of hundreds who had gathered to hear her speak erupted in applause.

A group of students at West Texas A&M University have announced a new venue for their charity drag show, which was initially set to take place on campus before it was canceled by the school's president.The performance, titled A Fool's Drag Race, will occur at the Sam Houston Park in Amarillo, according to a flyer posted by Spectrum WT, the university's student-led LGBT+ organization.

A yellow warning for thunderstorms across swathes of England has been issued by the Met Office as temperatures climb towards 30C.The alert is in force from 2pm to 9pm on Saturday and covers cities including Manchester, Cardiff and London.The Met Office warning says there is a small chance that homes and businesses could be flooded as a result of heavy rain.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, center, helps raise a Pride flag outside of the Department of Energy as the Biden administration celebrates Pride Month.Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Biden on Thursday will announce new actions to try to address discrimination against LGBTQI+ Americans including the appointment of a new point person at the Education Department to address an increase in book bans.

University of Washington senior Anthony Edwards was headed back to Seattle from a spring break road trip to the San Francisco Bay Area when a friend mentioned he might be able to see the northern lights from as far south as California late Thursday.From his hotel in Yreka - not far from the Oregon border - Edwards drove a few minutes east to try to escape any man-made light that could interfere with his view of the phenomenon, scientifically known as the aurora borealis.

On Tuesday, amid high winds and stormy conditions, a eucalyptus tree toppled over at the Oakland Zoo and landed on a recently completed aviary that held dozens of birds and small mammals.No animals were harmed, but six birds escaped the enclosure through mesh torn open by the fallen tree.By Thursday, three of the birds had been returned to captivity, as they had not strayed far from their damaged home.

"The best thing to be said about the current deal on the debt ceiling is that it could have been much worse."Sen. Bernie Sanders (left) and Sen. Jeff Merkley leave after a news conference on debt limit at the U.S. Capitol on May 18, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong / Getty Images Five members of the Senate Democratic caucus voted against the debt ceiling package negotiated between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) and the White House on Thursday, condemning cruel provisions in the bill aimed at harming the nation's most economically vulnerable populations.

The Supreme Court is looking less like a bench and more like an auction house, said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.Virginia Thomas, conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, leaves a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill on September 29, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni Thomas are under fresh scrutiny as yet another revelation, this one reported by the Washington Post on Thursday evening shows Ginni received tens of thousands of dollars in off-the-book compensation from a powerful right-wing nonprofit shortly before the group "soon would have an interest before the court" - a pivotal voting rights case.

The Treasury Department building in Washington, DC, May 19.Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP The faucets at the US Department of the Treasury are set to turn back on after nearly five months of frozen pipes.In a vote on Thursday evening, the Senate approved a measure to suspend the nation's debt limit through January 1, 2025.

Former President Donald Trump will not testify in the E. Jean Carroll civil battery and defamation trial after his attorney did not inform the court of any change in strategy before a judge-imposed deadline of 5 p.m. Sunday.While attorneys for Carroll and Trump rested their respective cases in the trial in Manhattan federal court on Thursday evening, District Judge Lewis Kaplan had left a window for Trump to testify, even as the former president's attorney said that would be highly unlikely.

Attorneys for E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump rested their respective cases in the battery and defamation trial against the former president in Manhattan federal court on Thursday evening.Carroll, a former magazine columnist, alleges Trump raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s and then defamed her when he denied her claim, said she wasn't his type and suggested she made up the story to boost sales of her book.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the theft of a 12-week-old donkey foal that was reunited with its mother after it had disappeared for more than two weeks.The young animal, named Moon, was taken from Miller's Ark Animals in Hook, Hampshire, some time before 5pm on May 15.Hampshire police said appeals for information had attracted countless calls and online reports from members of the public before the animal was reunited with its mother, Astra, at the farm on Wednesday evening.

Six leading candidates in Toronto's mayoral election all began their fourth debate in 48 hours by trying to position themselves as the fiscally responsible choice who can invest in city services and build new affordable housing, while balancing Toronto's massive pandemic-related budget shortfall.The sold-out debate hosted by the Toronto Region Board of Trade and TVO Today Live was held Thursday evening at the Isabel Bader Theatre, where they sparred on issues like livability and prospects for economic growth.

WARNING: This story contains distressing details.A British father's quest to piece together the circumstances of his son's suicide led him to a Toronto-area man's website.Now after multiple deaths abroad in similar circumstances, Peel Regional Police are investigating.And Tom Parfett's father, David Parfett, is pleading for stricter access to a substance linked to an increasing number of suicides.

Waukegan police said Thursday evening they have charged two juveniles in the killing of Niolis Collazo, the young Waukegan High School coach and school counselor who was fatally shot last month.Police issued a statement saying that at around 8 a.m.Thursday, officers executed search warrants at two locations in Waukegan and took two teen boys into custody.

Burbank police are investigating the shooting deaths of a man and woman found Thursday evening in a restaurant.Police said they were called at 6:38 p.m. to a report of a person shot at Frank's Chicago Shrimp House, 6539 W. 79th St.
Police tried to render aid to a woman, found on the floor of the restaurant with apparent gunshot wounds, but she was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a statement.

There are not exactly a wealth of great concertos written for the trombone, that largely unheralded stalwart of the brass section.(Insert sad trombone sound here.)If anyone is going to change this state of affairs, it's Joseph Alessi, the principal trombone of the New York Philharmonic.He's an idol of legions of brass players for his rich tone, exemplary phrasing and virtuosic precision.

Fast fashion firm Asos has raised 75 million to support its turnaround plan.The group revealed plans on Thursday evening to raise funds in order to strengthen its balance sheet.The online retail business confirmed on Friday that it has completed a share placing, with 17.9 million shares at 418.1p each to secure the cash injection.

A 37-year-old man has died after being attacked by a dog in Leigh, Greater Manchester.Police were called to the incident on Westleigh Lane at around 9pm on Thursday evening to find a man with serious injuries believed to have been caused by a dangerously out of control dog.The man was taken to hospital but died in the early hours of Friday morning.

This week, parts of northern Italy's Emilia-Romagna region received half their average annual rainfall in just 36 hours.Rivers burst their banks and thousands of acres of farmland lie submerged.By Thursday evening, an estimated 20,000 people had been left homeless and 13 were confirmed dead.It is just the latest weather disaster to hit the country.

New York City's outdoor dining program, a popular pandemic-era measure designed to be a temporary salve for a devastated restaurant industry, is about to become a permanent part of the city's landscape.A City Council bill, released on Thursday evening, called for creating a licensing structure that would allow outdoor dining structures to exist in roadways, but only from April through November.

A man suspected of shooting dead a mother-of-two during a stand-off with police has died in hospital.Armed police and a trained negotiator were scrambled to a terraced house in Priory Road, Dartford, at 12.40pm on Saturday afternoon following reports of a disturbance.Hayley Burke, 36, was taken to a London hospital suffering from shots from a handgun and died on Monday evening.

Juventus played host to Sevilla on Thursday evening in the first leg of their battle for a place in this season's Europa League final.In front of a packed Allianz Stadium in Turin, the two teams played a good game in which only a last-gasp header from Juventus substitute Federico Gatti prevented the visitors from taking an advantage into the rematch, after Youssef En-Nesyri broke the deadlock in the middle of the first half.

A 29-year-old man suspected of shooting dead a 36-year-old woman during a stand-off with police has died in hospital.Armed officers and a trained negotiator were called to a terraced house in Priory Road, Dartford, on Saturday after reports of a disturbance.The woman, Hayley Burke, died on Monday evening after being taken to a London hospital, Kent Police said.

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Marco_Piunti/Getty Images A 15-year-old boy died after being shot in San Francisco's Fillmore District on Thursday evening, officials said.The San Francisco Police Department said in a news release issued Friday that it responded to a report of a shooting at 7:19 p.m. on the 1800 block of Eddy Street, which is just off Divisadero Street, three blocks from the Raymond Kimbell Playground.

The introduction of voter ID is a thoroughly good thing, the Northern Ireland Secretary has said despite the Electoral Commission acknowledging some people have been unable to vote as a result of the new requirement.Chris Heaton-Harris insisted the big problems critics warned of did not materialise, adding: I think most people have just taken to it as you would expect them to.

Members of the Italian Coast Guard carry the body of a dead migrant in a bag at the port of Isola di Capo Rizzuto in the southern Calabria region on February 27, 2023.Alessandro Serrano, AFP Italy's foreign minister cancelled a trip to Paris Thursday after a French minister criticised Rome's migration policy, in a fresh spat over the contentious issue between the two nations.

Police searching for the fiance of pregnant teacher Marelle Sturrock who was found dead in Glasgow have now recovered a body.Following the discovery of the 35-year-old at a property on Jura Street on Tuesday morning, police launched a murder investigation.The force had been searching for Ms Sturrock's fiance, David Yates, in connection with her death.

Thursday evening marks the start of the 2023 NFL Draft in Kansas City.This year, Ron Rivera and the Washington Commanders hold the 16th overall pick in the draft after yet another disappointing season without a winning record.A frugal free agency period saw the Commanders come out on the other side with still more questions than answers.

Metallica kicked off their 2023-2024 "M72 World Tour" at the Johan Cruijff ArenA in Amsterdam on Thursday evening (April 27th) in support of their new album, .The two-year outing ( tickets available here) features the metal icons playing two completely unique sets over two nights in each city.

Former President Donald Trump was indicted by the Manhattan district attorney on Thursday for his role in paying alleged hush money to a porn star.The move raised a number of legal questions as Trump vies for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination; one of them beingdo criminal charges disqualify Trump from being elected president?

The Boston Bruins couldn't hang on to their win streak Tuesday night against the Nashville Predators.Hampus Lindholm was highlighted as a player to watch prior to the game and was held scoreless in the contest after scoring eight points over his previous eight games.The Bruins will look to get back in to the win column on Thursday evening against the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Former Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has been confirmed as the new Bayern Munich head coach after the club sacked Julian Nagelsmann.Tuchel, 49, has agreed a contract until June 2025 and will take training for the first time on Monday.News of Nagelsmann's departure spread on Thursday evening and on Friday he returned from holiday to be told in person that he had lost his job despite leading Bayern to their 10th straight German league crown last season.

A police horse that was attacked by a dog in an east London park on Wednesday has been inundated with apples and treats from members of the public as he begins his recovery.Police said the brown male horse, named Urbane, was expected to fully recuperate from several wounds to his front legs, chest and underbelly.

The Philadelphia Eagles' interest in former Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott seems to have been overstated.With former Dallas Cowboys star running back Ezekiel Elliott needing a new place to play, that team may not be the Philadelphia Eagles after all.It goes without saying that the Cowboys and Eagles absolutely hate each other as bitter NFC East rivals, but these franchises are self-aware enough to recognize what has made the other good for some time.

King Charles has been forced to postpone his state visit to France as police and protesters continue to clash over President Emmanuel Macron's retirement age reforms.The monarch's trip next week with his wife Camilla, Queen Consort was set to be his first abroad after becoming king.But it has been postponed following the announcement of more widespread protests.