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According to Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, Russian attacks destroyed 30% of Ukraine’s power plants and caused “massive blackouts across the country”. leading to shortage of electricity, water, hot. WHO has warned of a potential humanitarian crisis if Ukrainians do not have basic services such as heat and water during the coming winter.

The Russian blow heralded a new phase of the war. Civilians and infrastructure have been targeted since the beginning of the invasion, but Russia has begun to focus on critical utility networks, whose collapse would lead to a kind of human disaster. new religion.

Russia’s campaign to attack cities far from the frontline goes on even as its forces are struggling in eastern and southern Ukraine. Since the beginning of last month, the Ukrainians have been on the offensive, retaking territory captured by Russia this year, although the movement appears to have slowed in recent days.

By the numbers: Ukraine’s Government Minister, Oleksii Chernyshov, said 408 sites in the country were attacked, including 45 energy facilities. Many attacks have hit thermal power plants that generate steam to heat homes and businesses.

In other news from the war:

  • The Danish authorities said that “Powerful Explosion” caused the Nord Stream pipeline to burst last month but declined to say who might have caused them.

  • After selling drones to Russia, Iran sent trainers to help Russian troops in Crimea use themUS officials said.

  • The EU has severed economic ties with Russia to support Ukraine, but some goods, such as diamonds, still explicitly exempted.


Railway and postal workers, nurses, some teachers and even high school students in France have followed in his footsteps. workers at oil refineries and nuclear plants by strike yesterday, in the biggest test yet to face Emmanuel Macron during his second presidency. The action follows massive protests in Paris on Sunday against the rising cost of living.

Macron’s government is under pressure from voters and Congress, where opposition parties are refusing to pass the budget. The president is currently fighting to defuse the fury on three different fronts – in the factories, on the streets and in Congress – before it coalesces with massive social unrest.

Initial calls by oil workers for wage increases to keep up with rising inflation have sparked underlying concerns about the country’s economic inequality and rising bills for families. labor. The strikes have left about a quarter of pumps nationwide completely or partially dry.

Subsidize: Macron’s government has spent nearly 100 billion euros ($98 billion) since November subsidizing energy bills for households and businesses, but inflation has pushed up the cost of many basic items in the economy. supermarkets in France, from frozen meats to paper towels.


Federal Reserve Officials in the US plan to raise interest rates, currently at around 3.1%, as of three-quarters of a point next month, as policymakers grow increasingly worried about the sustaining strength of rapid price increases – and increasingly worried that inflation currently self-feeding. While the central bank predicts a peak of 4.6% next year, that could increase.

Officials face two big choices: when to slow down the acceleration and when to stop them. The labor market in the US remained strong, and inflation remained flat at 6.6% throughout the year through September, even when fuel and food prices weren’t included.

Fed officials have become increasingly aggressive in their fight against inflation this year, as the price boom around the globe has proved more persistent than anyone expected. Officials fear that if they let rapid inflation linger, it will become a lasting feature of the US economy.

Europe: Annual inflation rate for September in France is at 5.5%, while Germany and Italy are at 10% and 9.4% respectively. New UK figures, where the annual rate stood at 9.9% in August, will be released this morning.

New research shows that Our assumptions about eating disorders are often wrong – and starving people can come in many shapes and sizes. Sharon Maxwell, above, suffered from an eating disorder for 19 years before receiving her diagnosis.

One psychologist said: “Most overweight people are shocked to learn that they have anorexia. “Nobody tells them you can gain weight and have anorexia, and they believe their problem is the weight.”

For one of football’s greatest goalscorers, goals aren’t enough: Paris Saint-Germain star Kylian Mbappe is a talented striker, but he craves the roles occupied by Lionel Messi and Neymar.

What does the FIFA world rankings really mean for the World Cup? It’s very complicated. Which country is at the top? Which team has improved the most? Who will be the lowest ranked team of the World Cup and which is the “group of death”?

“Y’all,” a pronoun that functions like “you” is necessarily plural, possibly a Southern term, but it is symbolic of the confusion and heterogeneity of American English. , a language that is both multifaceted and marked by an ugly history , Maud Newton writes in The Times.

The origin of “y’all” is mysterious: Although the term may have originated with Scottish-Irish immigrants, it is likely derived at least in part from the vernacular of the Blacks who were affected. slaves, their influence on Southern accents is undeniable but hard to trace.

Moving to Tallahassee, near the border with Georgia, Newton began using “y’all” more and more, she wrote. “I started to enjoy its warmth and inclusion, the way that everyone gathered equally under its umbrella. I have to admit: It doesn’t feel sexist, racist or classist. It feels friendly and – most of the time – authentic. “

For more: What does the way you speak say about you? Review this Times classic to create your own American English dialect map.

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