A heat wave engulfs Japan and transgender activists in Pakistan debate protections.
Ukraine s military said Sunday it had withdrawn from the key eastern city of Lysychansk, the last city in the Luhansk province still held by Ukraine. Moscow s victory means Russian forces are in control of large parts of the Donbas, a coal-rich region that has become Russia's focal point since its defeat around Kyiv in the spring. Ukrainian forces are bolstering defenses along the border line between Luhansk and the neighboring province of Donetsk, residents said. After Ukraine withdrew from Lysychansk, explosions hit the center of a Russian city north of Ukraine, killing four, officials said. Since the beginning of the war, it has been the deadliest known episode affecting civilians in Russia. Moscow blamed Ukraine for the attack in Belgorod and Ukraine's military had no immediate comment.
The investigation into Russian war crimes may be the largest in history. Ukrainian men volunteered to protect their homes. Many of these untrained soldiers are dying on the other side of the country. Russia is using imprecise Soviet-era missiles to terrorize civilians, increasing the pace of attacks on residential targets.
Kaleem Ullah Khan, the mango man, has spent a lifetime grafting 300 varieties of mango onto a mother tree. The 82-year-old horticulturist grafted his own life story onto it as well. He said that sometimes the tree asks me questions and I sit up and think about them. It leaves me restless - what does it want?