Friday Briefing

Zelensky tries to shore up help in Washington

In a gathering on the White Home, President Biden advised Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian chief, that the U.S. can be “staying with you” in the course of the grinding warfare with Russia. On the similar time, a rising faction of the Republican Social gathering has threatened to carry up help that Zelensky mentioned may value his nation the warfare.

Biden mentioned that subsequent week the U.S. would start transport over Abrams tanks, which the Ukrainians had lengthy sought and have been a part of an present pledge. He additionally acknowledged that he had little alternative however to think about a bipartisan breakthrough for continued help for Ukraine.

Polls have proven a rising weariness over the warfare among the many American public, and dozens of Republicans say they’re against Biden’s newest request to Congress for $24 billion extra for Ukraine. Congress has already accepted $113 billion in help for Ukraine, together with round $70 billion for safety, intelligence and different war-fighting prices.

Tensions: The Polish authorities mentioned they’d provide Ukraine “solely” with already promised weapons amid a dispute between Kyiv and Warsaw over agricultural imports.

Evaluation: As Armenia and Azerbaijan conflict within the battle over Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia, drained by the warfare in Ukraine, has appeared incapable of performing as an indispensable energy within the area.

Separatism and a killing at a Sikh temple in Canada

A Sikh temple in Surrey, the town in British Columbia that may be a main heart of Canada’s Sikh diaspora, turned a house for the separatist motion below the management of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. He was gunned down exterior the temple in June, a killing that Canada has accused India of orchestrating.

Nijjar’s ascension to management in 2019 steered the temple in a much more strident and political course, most certainly rousing the suspicion of India, which labeled him a terrorist the next 12 months. The temple’s altering politics displays the evolution of Canada’s Sikhs and the political emergence of second-generation immigrants, specialists mentioned.

Murdoch steps down

The media magnate Rupert Murdoch, 92, is retiring from the Fox Information and Information Company boards, the businesses mentioned. His son Lachlan will develop into the only real govt accountable for the worldwide media empire that Murdoch constructed from a small native newspaper in Australia 70 years in the past; Murdoch will develop into chairman emeritus of the 2 firms and proceed to supply counsel.

With a model of right-wing populism, Murdoch’s firms have at instances held the ability to make or break presidents and prime ministers. He constructed that empire throughout three continents, serving to to shift norms and tastes in journalism, politics and fashionable tradition all through the English-speaking world.

How ought to artifacts from the wreck of the Titanic be dealt with? Ought to they be left to molder on the backside of the ocean, in honor of the greater than 1,500 individuals who misplaced their lives, or put in museums? And is there a center path?

James Cameron, recognized for his 1997 film “Titanic,” describes himself as a centrist between preservationists and salvors. “We shouldn’t take something from the bow and stern sections that may disfigure them,” he mentioned. “They need to stand as monuments to the tragedy.”

SPORTS NEWS

Rugby World Cup: French followers have packed stadiums, the Place de la Concorde and different venues to indicate their help in a land the place soccer guidelines.

Champions League debrief: The things you may have missed from the primary spherical of matches.

Premier League curiosities: Eight quirks from the 2023-24 soccer season to date.

What it’s prefer to be 13

For a 12 months, Jessica Bennett, a reporter for The Instances, adopted Anna, London and Addi, three 13-year-old American women from three states.

“I wished to place a face to the alarming headlines about teenagers and social media — particularly, women,” Jessica writes of her story. “And to know one rigidity: What occurs when women’ self-confidence, which has been proven to drop proper round this age, intersects with the factor that appears to be clearly contributing to their battle?”

Fights escalate in group messages, emotions get damage when photographs reveal who wasn’t included in a social occasion and an offhand remark in a bunch chat about “feeling bipolar” attracts disapproval. “It’s not as straightforward because it was once,” one lady mentioned. “Trigger you can’t escape social media except you delete the apps.”

That’s it for right this moment’s briefing. Thanks for becoming a member of me. — Natasha

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