Algeria declared three days of mourning after wildfires killed 12 people and injured dozens. Authorities said 46 fires remained active, with 54 people hospitalised for burns, including six in critical condition.
BBC News – World President Abdelmadjid Tebboune says he is not ruling out foul play after 100 wildfires were recorded.
BBC News – World President Abdelmadjid Tebboune says he is not ruling out foul play after 100 wildfires were recorded.
NYTimes – US Pike, 50, is being held in solitary confinement and faces an uncertain future after surviving a failed lethal injection.
BBC News – World Residents have begun leaving the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky through an evacuation corridor opened during a temporary local ceasefire. Senior Ukrainian official David Arakhamia said evacuees left for Russia's Anapa city with a Ukrainian delegation and are expected to fly to Belarus before returning to Ukraine by bus. The White House said US first lady Melania Trump helped negotiate the ceasefire and coordinate the humanitarian mission. Several hundred people are understood to have decided to stay in the devastated frontline town, which lacks gas, electricity and running water.
NYTimes – World Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta announced it is closing, citing pressure from Russian authorities. The outlet, whose co-founder Dmitry Muratov received the Nobel Peace Prize, said the government had orchestrated its demise. Reports noted recent searches of a senior editor's home and the detention of one of its journalists. Novaya Gazeta has been openly critical of Russia's war in Ukraine and was classed as a 'foreign agent' by Moscow.
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