 Kyiv residents walking past the television tower that was struck by Russian artillery yesterday Ukraine and Russia will hold a new round of ceasefire talks today. The Russian and Ukrainian governments did not say where the talks will be held. This new attempt to reach a ceasefire comes after the Russian army stepped up its artillery attacks against Kharkiv on Tuesday and Russian paratroopers landed in the eastern Ukrainian city. More: - Russian forces said they have captured the port city of Kherson but Ukrainian officials contested that claim, saying that the city is still fighting against Russian invaders.
- Kherson is located in northwest Crimea, where the Dnieper River opens into the Black Sea.
- The mayor of Kherson told reporters that Russians had not yet occupied the city, but that there were "many wounded civilians" and that supplies were running low.
- A large armored convoy is en route to Kyiv, which saw major shelling yesterday from Russian artillery.
- Leading Russian dissident Aleksi Navalny issued a statement from prison, calling on Russians to protest against "the aggressive war against Ukraine unleashed by our obviously insane czar."
- The European Union has agreed to implement new sanctions against Belarus for helping Russia with the invasion.
- The sanctions include a ban on exports of fertilizer, timber, iron, steel, cement, and tobacco.
- Russia's central bank said that the Moscow Stock Exchange will remain closed today.
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 In his first State of the Union address last night, President Biden announced actions to punish Russia for invading Ukraine and highlighted his administration's efforts to combat inflation. Biden also said that the United States is entering "a new moment in the fight against COVID-19," as mask and vaccine mandates are dropped and public health policies adapt to endemic COVID. More: - Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had "badly miscalculated" and warned that he would pay a "high price" for invading Ukraine.
- He said the U.S. will close its airspace to Russian planes and will create a task force to "go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs."
- On domestic policy, Biden focused on his plans to ease supply chain disruptions, increase domestic manufacturing of cars and semiconductors, and invest in the physical and technical infrastructure needed to increase output.
- The President called for Congress to work with him on cutting the cost of prescription drugs, energy, and child care.
- He also called for bipartisan efforts to tackle the opioid crisis, improve mental health services, support veterans, and "end cancer as we know it."
- Biden pushed back against the "defund the police" narrative that many Democrats adopted during the summer of 2020, saying, "We should all agree: The answer is not to defund the police. The answer is to fund the police."
- Click here to read Biden's speech.
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 Left to Right: Texas Governor Greg Abbott, former U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke After winning their parties' primaries, Democrat Beto O'Rourke and Republican Greg Abbott will face one another in the Texas gubernatorial election on Nov. 8. Abbott, the current governor of Texas and the clear frontrunner, could become the fifth Texan to win three terms as governor if he wins the race, while O'Rourke is aiming to become the first Democratic governor of Texas since 1995. More: - Texas has pursued radically conservative policies with Abbott as governor.
- The controversial anti-abortion law passed last year effectively bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and allows citizens to sue one another in civil court for supporting another person's effort to get an abortion.
- Last week, Abbott instructed state agencies to investigate the medical treatment of transgender teenagers as child abuse.
- O'Rourke is a former Congressman who lost a tight race to Ted Cruz for a Texas Senate seat in 2018.
- He also had a brief and uneventful run at the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019.
- O'Rourke's campaign has ~$7M on hand, while Abbott's re-election organization has nearly $50M available.
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 Tom Littledyke in his van with supplies donated for Ukrainian refugees GOOD NEWS: An Englishman began a 1,300-mile trip across Europe to deliver supplies to Ukrainian refugees on the Ukraine-Poland border. Tom Littledyke, a former Royal Marine, is transporting food, blankets, and other goods in his minibus. More: - Tom and his girlfriend, Georgia Wellman, set up a JustGiving page to receive donations such as blankets, sleeping bags, children's clothes and toys, nonperishable food, coats, and toiletries.
- Tom will drive from Dorset to Kent and take a ferry to France before progressing on through Belgium and Germany to reach Poland.
- Tom expects to reach Korczowa, Poland, today and he plans to be back in the U.K. by the weekend.
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 The new government of Honduras has banned open-pit mining. Left-wing president Xiomara Castro also plans to cancel the environmental permits of mining projects across the Central American country but is unclear if this policy will apply to both future and ongoing projects. More: - Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc are all mined in Honduras, but indigenous activists have campaigned against the practice of open-pit mining for decades.
- Open-pit mining is particularly damaging to the environment because it typically involves the use of heavy machinery to raze through large plots of land.
- The new Ministry of Mining issued a statement calling mining "extractive exploitation" with environmentally harmful effects.
- Costa Rica and El Salvador have also restricted mining operations for environmental reasons.
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 A photograph of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong More than 100,000 Hong Kong residents have applied for British visas in the year since the U.K.'s visa program for Hong Kongers was launched. Many Hong Kong residents have left the city amid the fallout from 2019's pro-democracy protests and subsequent attacks on civil society by the city's pro-China government. More: - Hong Kong was a long-time British colony that was transferred to Chinese control in 1997.
- The city was meant to maintain independence and an open democratic system as part of the "one country, two systems" principle, but pro-China forces are pushing Hong Kong toward a closer relationship with Beijing.
- In 2019, tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents rose up against the city's government in some of the largest protests in the city's history.
- The visa program was launched by the U.K. in January 2021 to offer Hong Kongers a path to British citizenship.
- Of the ~103,000 visa applications sent in by Hong Kong residents, more than 97,000 have been accepted by the British government.
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 |  | Daniel Smith is an Inside Analyst who currently resides in Miami, Florida. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Daniel spent the last four years as a PhD candidate in Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He is fascinated by tech, business, politics, venture capital, and everything in between. When he’s not writing for Inside he can be found kicking a ball on the nearest rugby pitch. Follow him on Twitter @DanSmithInside. |  | | Editor | Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is writing an illustrated book about climate change that will be published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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