Your Tuesday Briefing – The New York Times

Good morning. We are talking about extreme heat in the UK and alleged vandalism in Ukraine.

England is hot under a heatwave

The temperature in England is near yesterday’s record high like the blazing heat sweeping through the country. By mid-afternoon, Wales had noted Its highest temperature ever: The thermometer hit 37.1 degrees Celsius, almost 99 degrees Fahrenheit.

Infrastructure is under strain. Some train services was cancelled, while others are running at reduced speeds in case the rails warp. Flights at Britain’s largest airbase have been halted due to concerns that the tar could melt. And the chain of a Victorian bridge is wrapped in foil to keep the cracks from expanding and threatening the stability of the bridge.

Global warming has exacerbated heatwaves in Europe, which scientists say are increasing in frequency and intensity. at a rate faster than almost anywhere else on the planet. Scientists say there are changes in the jet stream.

Yesterday, the United Nations secretary general warned that humanity faces a “mass suicide“In the climate crisis. But the leading contenders to be Britain’s next prime minister seem more numerous focus on the cost of living crisis compared to the government’s ambitious targets of “zero” carbon emissions by 2050.

Ukraine seeks to root collaborators

Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, said the country was open 651 treason investigations on employees of the country’s law enforcement agencies and others suspected of working with Russia.

Russian sympathizers are Report the location of Ukrainian targets such as garrison or ammunition depots, officials said. Priests sheltered Russian officers and informed Ukrainian activists in Russian-occupied areas. An official said collaborators even removed explosives from the bridges, allowing Russian troops to pass through.

Ukraine’s shadow war against Russian collaborators turned light on Sunday, when Zelensky sacked two senior law enforcement officials. He did not accuse them of treason, but said that they had turned a blind eye to traitors in sensitive positions.

Zelensky specifically cited Ukraine’s security service, an unwieldy force with 27,000 employees, the largest in Europe. Many intelligence chiefs graduated from KGB schools, and Western allies say the service has too many areas of activity, leaving the agency vulnerable to corruption and vulnerable to being fired from a hunting role. spy.

Text definition: In Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014 and in eastern Ukraine, where the fighting has become fierce lately, deep cultural and historical ties with Russia have translated into pockets of support for Moscow. The threat posed to Ukraine for many years has become more acute during the war.

European Union: The foreign ministers added gold to Russia’s import ban list and approved 500 million euros to reimbursement to member states for weapons sent to Ukraine. That brings the bloc’s total spending on military aid to Ukraine to 2.5 billion euros.

Live cases on the rise in the US

Covid-19 is Rise again across America like BA.5 – the most contagious coronavirus variant yet – spurring a wave of new cases.

But many public health practitioners say the wave is cause for caution, not alarm: Hospitalizations have increased 20% in the past two weeks, but deaths have increased only modestly. cost. The country has entered a newer and less lethal phase in which vaccines and treatments have dramatically improved the chances of survival, an expert said.

Public health agencies are also hesitant to impose new restrictions, noting that most Americans are responding to the new wave with a collective shrug. Even residents of what was once one of the most cautious places in the country are hiding from masks, socializing indoors and continuing to escape countless warnings.

Retirement: Anthony Fauci, who has seen America weather the worst of the pandemic, said he would “almost certainly“Retired in January 2025, ending President Biden’s current term.

Monkey pox: The patient in New York City, the center of cases in the United States, described as excruciating pain and a struggle to seek care.

David Treuer’s father, an Austrian Jewish immigrant, loved the United States His native mother, born into a reservation, could never forgive it.

“What to do with this country that saved my father’s life and tried to destroy my mother?” David writes in a new, Touching essay for Times Magazine. “What to do with myself?”

Life Lived: Claes Oldenburg, a Swedish-American pop artist known for “The Giant Monument,” transforms household objects into giant, majestic abstractions. He died yesterday at the age of 93.

ARTS AND IDEAS

In its first exhibition, the Museo dell’Arte Salvata – Museum of Art Saved – paid tribute to the Italian art-stealing police team, which they say have returned thousands of works. for Italy.

It also highlights the ways in which pieces can get lost. Some works were stolen; others were damaged in earthquakes or other natural disasters. Many pieces need to be recovered: They have been pulled from ancient shipwrecks or ravaged by time.

The exhibition runs until mid-October. Then the pieces will move, usually away from Rome. Italy will try to return many of the works to organizations near their place of origin, a long-term effort by the country’s culture ministry.

“I think this is a wounded art museum, because the works on display here have been stripped of their context of discovery and belonging,” a museum official said.

He described the exhibit as a kind of “parenthesis in the life of the object” and said that “an illegal period has passed, and now a new life begins.”

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