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At least 10 children among the dead as fears of an Israeli ground assault intensify in southern Gaza. A child finds his way through the rubble of a building hit by Israeli bombardment in Rafah [Mahmud Hams/AFP] The Israeli military has killed at least 28 Palestinians in strikes on Rafah immediately after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signalled that an invasion of the city in southern Gaza may be close. Three air raids on residential homes in the Rafah area killed at least 28 people overnight into Saturday, according to a health official and The Associated Press journalists who saw the bodies arriving at hospitals. As with many previous Israeli air raids, each attack reportedly killed multiple members of three families, including a total of 10 children, the youngest of whom was only three months old. This came hours after Netanyahu said he had ordered the military to plan for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians from Rafah in preparation for a ground invasion to accompany the air attacks. Netanyahu did not provide details or a timeline, but his announcement only exacerbated widespread panic among over half of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million po[CENSORED]tion who are now packed into Rafah. Many of them had been displaced several times before as a result of Israel’s war on Gaza. The Israeli leader has said clearing Rafah of the purported four Hamas battalions who are in the area would be necessary on his path to “total victory” over the group. Reporting from occupied East Jerusalem, Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands said, “At the same time, he said any massive army operation in Rafah can’t take place without the evacuation of civilians from the combat zone. He’s told the military and security establishment to come up with plans that do both.” “This is causing immense concern around the world. We’ve had the United States saying it can’t condone any operation there that doesn’t put in place a proper humanitarian plan. We’ve got the United Nations saying any forced displacement of the 1.4 million people there is out of line,” he said. Washington and other allies, as well as rights organisations, have warned Israel that invading Rafah would lead to “disaster” and the United Nations has continued to express concern over devastating consequences for civilians. “Where are they supposed to go? How are they supposed to stay safe?” asked the UN’s humanitarian affairs and relief chief Martin Griffiths on Saturday. Meanwhile, intense fighting continues to rage in areas across Gaza, with Khan Younis in the south still a main focus of Israeli ground and air attacks. The area’s largest medical facility, Nasser Hospital, is still under siege by Israeli forces who have killed dozens in the surrounding areas using among other things sniper fire and attack drones. About 300 overexerted medical personnel, 450 patients and some 10,000 displaced people are believed to be sheltering in the hospital, unable to leave because of Israeli fire and lack of safety elsewhere. Israel’s invasion of Gaza has killed at least about 28,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, with thousands more missing, likely remaining under rubble. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/10/israeli-military-kills-28-after-netanyahu-signals-rafah-invasion-plan

Relatives find body of Hind Rajab who had begged rescuers to send help after being trapped by Israeli military fire. Hind Rajab was missing since January 29 when the Israeli army opened fire on a car she was in, killing her relatives in Gaza [Courtesy of Ghada Ageel] The body of a six-year-old Palestinian girl, missing for 12 days after an Israeli tank targeted their family car in Gaza, has been found along with the bodies of two medics dispatched to look for them. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the family of the girl, Hind Rajab, confirmed on Saturday that all seven people inside the car were killed, with the Palestinian relief organisation saying it lost crew members Yusuf Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun in the Israeli attack on civilians in Gaza City. Family members found Hind’s body along with those of her uncle and aunt and their three children near a roundabout in the city’s Tal al-Hawa suburb, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. Another of Hind’s uncles, Sameeh Hamadeh, said the car was peppered with bullet holes. “The occupation deliberately targeted the ambulance upon its arrival at the scene, where it was found just metres away from the vehicle containing the trapped child Hind,” said the PRCS statement. “Despite prior coordination to allow the ambulance to reach the location to rescue the child, Hind, the occupation deliberately targeted the Palestine Red Crescent ambulance crew.” Earlier this month, the PRCS published an audio file in which Hind could be heard pleading on the phone with a member of the rescue team. All members of her family are believed to have been killed before her, leaving her terrified in the car with the dead bodies of her loved ones. “I’m so scared, please come. Please call someone to come and take me,” she was heard crying desperately in the call that PRCS said lasted three hours in an effort to calm the frightened child. The Israeli army had earlier said it was not aware of the incident. The PRCS had started a count of the number of hours since it lost contact with Hind and the crew in trying to attract attention to the plight of Palestinian healthcare workers, who persist under constant attacks by the Israeli army. In an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic shortly after the family was targeted, Hind’s mother said she had managed to speak to her and an older cousin, 15-year-old Layan Hamadeh, who was with Hind in the car. “They are shooting at us. The tank is next to us,” Layan said in a recording released at the time. Then a barrage of shooting was heard, followed by screams, before the line cut out. The plight of Hind, revealed in the harrowing audio clips, underlined the impossible conditions for civilians in the face of Israel’s four-month assault on Gaza, which many governments have termed a “genocide”. Israel’s military has killed nearly 28,000 people – mostly women and children – since October 7 when Hamas fighters attacked Israel, killing more than 1,100 people and taking 253 captives, according to Israeli tallies. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/10/body-of-6-year-old-killed-in-deliberate-israeli-fire-found-after-12-days

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Along with some styling tweaks, the mid-size sedan swaps out its old turbocharged 1.6-liter engine for a more potent naturally aspirated 2.5-liter four-cylinder. Kia drew back the curtains on the U.S. spec for the 2025 K5 sedan, showing updated styling in line with what we saw on the Korea-market car in October. The front and rear ends of the mid-size sedan are restyled with new daytime running lights, and the interior hosts a larger central touchscreen. The big news is the new 191-hp naturally aspirated 2.5-liter four-cylinder, which takes over as the standard engine for all but the GT trim. There's no official date yet, but we're expecting to see the K5 on dealer lots sometime in the spring. After first revealing the Korea-market car back in October, Kia revealed the U.S.-specification K5 sedan at the Chicago auto show today. Along with revised front and rear ends, the mid-size sedan gains new tech, more standard features, and a new engine for the base models. Fewer Turbos, More Power When Kia revealed the Korea-market K5 back in October, we professed that we weren't expecting any major changes to the mid-size sedan's powertrain. Unfortunately, we can't bat a thousand (please don't tell your friends; our ego is fragile), even though we strive to be as close as possible. Thankfully, while we were wrong, we're happy to report that the 2025 K5 is up on standard power. Gone is the 180-hp turbocharged 1.6-liter four-cylinder previously found in most K5s. In its stead is a new (for the K5) 191-hp naturally aspirated 2.5-liter four-cylinder for all but the GT trim. The new engine still pairs with an eight-speed automatic transmission. Front-wheel drive comes standard and all-wheel drive is available, though only on the GT-Line. Unfortunately, the loss of a turbo has resulted in less torque, with the 2.5-liter engine producing 181 pound-feet compared to the old 1.6's 195. The much more powerful GT returns with an unchanged powertrain. It's once again propelled by a 290-hp turbocharged 2.5-liter four-pot mated to an eight-speed wet dual-clutch automatic that it shares with the Hyundai Sonata N Line. The sportiest K5 features bigger brakes, a unique suspension tune, and wider tires on larger 19-inch rims. A New Look Just like the Korean version, the U.S. K5 adds new headlights and taillights for its restyled front and rear ends. The re-visioned front end incorporates new amber-colored daytime running lights carved into the K5's front end in a zigzag pattern. Around the back, the taillights are larger than before and slash downward into the bumper. There's a plethora of new wheel choices as well, with the base LXS trim riding on a set of 16-inch wheels and the EX and GT-Line coming standard with unique 18-inch wheel designs. At the top of the lineup, the GT earns 19-inch wheels wrapped in 245/40R-19 Pirelli P-Zero rubber. The GT also gets a standard set of bright green brake calipers to match the seat stitching. It's What's Inside That Counts Speaking of seat stitching, the interior of the 2025 K5 is overhauled with new tech and a few quality-of-life improvements. Available as an option, the new 12.0-inch digital gauge cluster and new standard 12.3-inch central touchscreen can be stuffed behind a single piece of curved glass. Kia has added the wireless versions of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as standard features across the K5 lineup. The screen is also more responsive, and over-the-air updates are now possible. Controls for HVAC and audio are updated to Kia's familiar one-screen, two-function format. The small screen toggles between the two functions, letting you change the A/C or volume with a single dial. Changes for 2025 are rounded out with a new center console that gets larger cupholders, a wireless charging pad, and USB-C ports for the front and rear. As for when you can expect the K5 to start showing up on sale, Kia hasn't offered any specific dates, but we're expecting they'll begin hitting dealer lots in the spring. Official pricing should be released in the months before then. Even with the new standard features, we aren't expecting to see a major jump over the 2024 model's $26,745 entry price. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46682181/2025-kia-k5-us-details-specs/

After a record-breaking round of games we assess the key factors, including the impact of new added-time directives Luton’s Carlton Morris celebrates after scoring one of the eight goals in his team’s 4-4 draw at Newcastle. Photograph: Scott Heppell/Reuters Once Phil Foden completed his hat-trick at Brentford to secure Manchester City’s 3-1 win, he set a record collective 45-goal haul for a Premier League round. It followed a weekend where only West Ham, losing 3-0 at Manchester United, and Sheffield United, beaten 5-0 by Aston Villa, failed to score. It eclipsed two weeks of 44 goals, the first in front of Covid-restricted empty stadiums in the second round of the 2020-21 season, and then last season’s 34th round, which included Brighton’s 6-0 walloping of Wolves and Crystal Palace’s 4-3 defeat of West Ham. Saturday’s haul of 26 goals over five matches was a record for a single day, heavily nudged towards that by Newcastle and Luton’s 4-4 draw. The 2023-24 season has brought comfortably the highest rate of goalscoring in Premier League history, with 730 goals rattled in from 228 matches, an average of 3.20 per game. Last season’s 380 matches delivered a previous record rate of 2.85 goals per game for 1,084 goals; no season’s matches have averaged above three goals per game. The self-proclaimed best league in the world just got better, though a statistical curiosity is that after last weekend the Bundesliga had a near identical rate of 573 goals in 180 matches – 3.18 – and the Eredivisie had 577 at a 3.21 average. La Liga’s 2.64, Ligue 1’s 2.51 and Serie A’s 2.55 rates show no vast difference from last season. Only the Premier League has made such a leap. Where might this season’s glut have come from? More attacking football from managers, better forward play, the rise of counterpressing, the decline of the classic defender, clubs struggling at the bottom, including Sheffield United who have conceded 59 goals and are in danger of setting a 38-game record? (The Blades are conceding at a rate of just over 2.56 goals a game; Derby, the holders of that 38-game record, let in 89 goals in 2007-08 at 2.34 per match.) The answer may be as simple as the 20 teams playing more football than before. Directives brought in at the start of the season, where officials are instructed to add the exact time lost to the end of each half rather than the previous nominal additions for subs and injuries and VAR checks, have led to much longer halves. Opta statistics show this Premier League season has featured by far the highest amount of added time, 11min 41sec a game on average. Last season, it was 8min 27sec. Incidentally, during that 2020-21 season without crowds, when it was suggested players were able to get away with less play-acting and time-wasting was similarly reduced, the average was as low as 6min 34sec. Those time directives, following those employed by Fifa for the 2022 World Cup, seek to keep the ball in play for longer. The more exacting time additions have had the desired result. This Premier League season, the ball has been in play for an average of 58min 31sec when compared with 54min 52sec last season. The previous highest came – that statistical outlier again – from the closed-door season in 2020-21. More added time leads to higher fatigue from defenders, more margin for errors, as matches lengthen. There have been 67 goals scored beyond the 90th minute – the record since Opta started recording this in 2006-07 is 72 – and the rate of 9.2% towers above the record of 6.7% set in the 2021-22 season. As might be expected, teams towards the top of the Premier League, with stronger – perhaps younger, more athletic? – squads are the beneficiaries of bonus football, with Liverpool and Arsenal level on eight goals scored beyond the 90-minute mark. Wolves and Aston Villa, two teams in fine form, have five each. Only Nottingham Forest have failed to score in time added on and one surprise lies in Manchester City, champions and looming title favourites, having scored only twice beyond the 90th minute. Perhaps they are saving theirs for later. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/feb/08/premier-league-goals-why-so-many

Culling of M90 comes amid ongoing legal battles over how to deal with bears deemed dangerous to humans A bear at the Parco Faunistico in Spormaggiore. An animal rights group said Trentino’s policy was ‘shortsighted and hostile to animals’. Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian nimal rights activists have decried the “brutal” culling of a bear by forestry police in Trentino following orders from the president of the mountainous northern Italian province. M90, a brown bear, was deemed to be a “danger to public security” after the animal was alleged to have intentionally followed people on three occasions, most recently a couple of hikers who were walking along a mountain path 1,400 metres above the town of Ortisé in the Val di Sole. The “excessively confident” bear, who was identified by its radio collar and ear markings, was also seen on 12 occasions “in residential areas or in the immediate vicinity of permanent dwellings”, provincial authorities said. Officials said Italy’s environmental institute Ispra had confirmed the need to “remove M90 as soon as possible”. The bear was traced to a forested area in the lower Val di Sole on Tuesday and put down. The killing comes amid ongoing legal battles between the president of Trentino, Maurizio Fugatti, and animal rights groups over how to deal with bears that are deemed dangerous. The debate intensified in April last year when Andrea Papi, 26, was mauled to death by a bear called JJ4 while jogging along a mountain path close to his village of Caldes. JJ4 had also attacked two hikers in 2020. Animal and environmental activists said they would protest in the provincial capital, Trento, on Saturday, arguing that the speed at which the order and execution of M90 occurred did not give them time to seek a reprieve. Lucia Coppola, a provincial councillor for the Green party, said: “It was a brutal act. The animal had never caused any damage, it should not have been considered dangerous.” Oipa, an animal rights group, said the province’s policy was “shortsighted and hostile to animals” and did not protect biodiversity. “We hoped until the end for a change of heart … but President Fugatti was deaf to the request of public opinion,” the group said. “M90 was a young bear guilty of having been spotted a few times near inhabited areas.” It said the only damage caused by M90 was to a farm fence and a bin for organic waste. Bears were brought to Trentino from Slovenia in the early 2000s as part of a project aimed at reversing the area’s dwindling brown bear po[CENSORED]tion. There are about 100 bears in the province. A committee established in the memory of Papi had expressed concern over the more frequent bear sightings, especially during winter when the animals would ordinarily be hibernating. It is believed they are venturing closer to inhabited areas in search of food, even in winter, due to the warmer temperatures. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/07/animal-rights-groups-decry-brutal-killing-of-bear-by-italian-forestry-police

Silvia and Pepe on their roof terrace in Mexico City, 2024. How we met Relationships How we met: ‘I wasn’t open to a relationship. But we ended up kissing and it felt very welcome’ Silvia, 54, met Pepe, 56, at a party in Mexico City when they were in their early 20s. At first she had no intention of dating him … Silvia was 19 when her mum died. “I’d been living in Boston on a gap year, learning English,” she says. “I came home to Mexico City when my mum was ill, but I didn’t know she had terminal cancer. I thought she would get better.” Her death came as a huge shock and Silvia plunged into a depression. Two years later, she was still struggling with grief. “My sister suggested we set up a screen printing business together, which was a nice distraction from everything because I became so busy with work.” A friend encouraged her to come along to a party. “I didn’t have many friends then, nor did I go to many parties, but she wanted to get me out of my little cocoon,” says Silvia. “I didn’t feel like going but I decided to give it a go.” Whenever we move around, coming back to Silvia gives me the base I need Another friend picked her up from her home, and brought Pepe along, too. “I’d just finished university and was living with my grandparents,” he says. “As soon as I saw Silvia, I was interested. We started talking in the car and I really liked her; she seemed different from the other girls I’d met.” Silvia enjoyed their conversations that night, but “wasn’t open to a relationship”. “My friend asked if she could give him my number and I said ‘no way’. But she ignored me and did it anyway,” Silvia says with a laugh. When Pepe called shortly afterwards, she was shocked to hear from him. “I told him I was going on holiday the following week and that I didn’t ‘do’ dating.” Still keen to get to know her as a friend, Pepe called again when she returned and suggested a “non-date” coffee and a walk. Silvia agreed to go and found she liked the way he listened to her. “He wasn’t just looking at me; he made me feel as if I was interesting. We discovered we loved cinema and had seen many of the same art exhibitions.” From then on, they met up as friends more frequently and Silvia began to realise how much she liked Pepe. “I felt really comfortable around him. I grew up with little self-esteem but, being with him, I felt I could be myself without fearing judgment. We ended up kissing one day and it felt very welcome.” The pair soon became inseparable: “On weekends, we used to watch three films in a row, or go to exhibitions, on road trips, to gigs or clubbing.” Pepe began working in marketing for a management consulting firm, while Silvia continued her business. In 1995, Pepe was offered the chance to move to London. “I invited her to come with me and she said yes,” he says. “We hadn’t considered marriage, but our families were more traditional, and it was seen as proper to get married before living together. So that’s what we did.” Pepe, Silvia and their son by Glastonbury Tor in 2005. They loved being in London, describing it as “the world’s creative capital”. “Pepe was having a ball and I had made the best group of friends,” says Silvia. “The only difficulty was finding work. So I retrained as a chef in 1998, got a job with a restaurant and fell in love with the kitchen’s smells and flavours.” Their son was born in 2004 and Pepe’s work was transferred to the Netherlands two years later, with stints in Switzerland. Although they loved the Netherlands, by 2020 Pepe wanted a change. “Our son was keen to learn more about his roots, so we decided to come back to Mexico City,” he says. Settling back in has been more challenging than they expected, but they’re enjoying the experience. “As we are older and have been to many places, we now see the city in a different light. We’re rediscovering Mexico with a curiosity we wouldn’t have had if we had stayed here,” says Silvia. She also loves her partner’s determined nature. “It doesn’t matter what the situation is, Pepe never quits,” she says. “He makes me feel so loved. When we became parents I fell in love all over again, because he’s such a great role model for our son.” Throughout their travels, Silvia has been Pepe’s “constant”. “Whenever we move around, coming back to Silvia gives me the base I need to land, rest and take strength so I can carry on.” says Pepe. “Regardless of where we are, she represents home, stability and family to me.” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/08/how-we-met-i-wasnt-open-to-a-relationship-but-we-ended-up-kissing-and-it-felt-very-welcome

Growing fears among more than a million displaced people in Rafah as Israel threatens large operation in the city. People gather to inspect the remains of a wrecked vehicle that was destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip [Said Khatib/AFP] Israeli forces bombed areas in the southern border city of Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s internally displaced po[CENSORED]tion is sheltering, as the United States warned that a military push into the city could be a “disaster”. Aid agencies have warned of a humanitarian catastrophe if Israel follows through on its threat to enter Rafah, where people are desperate for shelter and one of the last remaining areas of the Gaza Strip into which its troops have not moved. “To conduct such an operation right now with no planning and little thought in an area” where one million people are sheltering “would be a disaster,” State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said on Thursday. He said Washington had “yet to see any evidence of serious planning for such an operation”. Earlier, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that more than a million civilians were trapped in the city in southern Gaza. “Half of Gaza’s po[CENSORED]tion is now crammed into Rafah. They have nowhere to go,” he said. Palestinians in Gaza are desperately hoping a ceasefire could arrive in time to head off the threatened Israeli assault on Rafah, hard against Gaza’s southern border fence and now home to more than a million people, many of them in makeshift tents. Israeli planes bombed parts of the city on Thursday morning, residents said, killing at least 14 people in attacks on two houses. Tanks also shelled some areas in eastern Rafah, intensifying the residents’ fears of an imminent ground assault. Diplomatic efforts The warnings come as diplomats sought to salvage ceasefire talks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a Hamas proposal. In a sign that the diplomacy was not over, a Hamas delegation led by senior official Khalil Al-Hayya arrived in Cairo on Thursday for ceasefire talks with key mediators Egypt and Qatar. Netanyahu said on Wednesday terms proposed by Hamas for a ceasefire were “delusional”, and pledged to fight on, saying victory was in reach and just months away. Despite Israel’s rejection of the Hamas proposal, more talks are planned. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who met mediators this week on his fifth trip to the region since the start of the war, said he still saw room for negotiations. Blinken also said that the civilian death toll was too high and reiterated that Israel’s operation should put civilians first. “And that’s especially true in the case of Rafah, where there are somewhere between 1.2 and 1.4 million people, many of them displaced from other parts of Gaza,” he said. He said he had suggested some ways to minimise harm in talks with Israeli leaders, but gave no details. Blinken departed to return to the US on Thursday afternoon. The Hamas delegation in Egypt is expected to meet officials including Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel, Egyptian security sources said. Hamas proposed a ceasefire of four and a half months, during which all hostages would go free, Israel would withdraw its troops and an agreement would be reached on an end to the Israeli offensive. Its offer was a response to a proposal drawn up by US and Israeli spy chiefs with Qatar and Egypt, and delivered to Hamas last week. Hamas says it will not agree to any deal that does not include an end to the offensive and Israeli withdrawal. Israel says it will not withdraw or stop fighting until Hamas is eradicated. Israel began its large-scale military offensive after Hamas fighters killed 1,139 people and took 253 hostages in southern Israel on October 7, according to Israeli tallies. Israel’s military said on Thursday that, during the past day, its troops had killed more than 20 fighters in Gaza’s main southern city Khan Younis, now the site of some of the war’s most intense fighting. Gaza’s Health Ministry said at least 27,840 Palestinians have been confirmed killed, and more than 67,000 injured since the war began. The Israeli bombardment continued in Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, killing Palestinian television journalist, Nafez Abdel-Jawwad, and his son. At least 124 journalists and media representatives have been killed in the enclave so far, Gaza’s information ministry said. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the main UN aid agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, said on X that the agency had not been permitted to bring food to areas where people are on the verge of famine. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/8/israel-escalates-rafah-bombardment-as-us-warns-of-a-disaster

As the war enters its 716th day, these are the main developments. A woman walks through debris from a badly damaged residential building in the town of Selydove [Genya Savilov/AFP] Fighting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Oleksandr Syrsky, who has led Ukraine’s ground forces since 2019, as the new head of Ukraine’s armed forces, after he dismissed General Valerii Zaluzhnyi in the biggest military shake-up since Russia began its full-scale invasion. Zaluzhnyi conceded that military strategy “must change”. Mayor Vitaly Barabash told state media that large numbers of Russian forces were “storming” Avdiivka, which has been under sustained Russian assault since mid-October and lies about 20km (12 miles) east of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk. Dmytro Lykhovyy, a Ukrainian military spokesperson, told national television that Russian and Ukrainian forces were engaged in fighting “within the town”. Russia and Ukraine exchanged 100 prisoners of war each with the United Arab Emirates acting as an intermediary, both countries said. Zelenskyy said most of those brought home had been captured in the three-month defence of Mariupol, which fell in May 2022. In one of the only independent assessments of the death toll from the brutal battle for Mariupol, Human Rights Watch said at least 8,000 people were killed by fighting or war-related causes, and named Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu among 10 people with “command responsibility” it said should be the focus of possible war crimes investigations. Ukraine’s air force said 11 of 17 Russia-launched drones targeting four regions of the country were shot down. No casualties were reported. Russia’s Defence Ministry said it destroyed a dozen Ukrainian missiles headed for the border city of Belgorod. Politics and diplomacy The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child urged Russia to “put an end to the forcible transfer or deportation of children from occupied Ukrainian territory” and return those taken to their families. Kyiv alleges some 20,000 children have been taken from Ukraine to Russia without the consent of their families or guardians. The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s children’s commissioner over the deportations. The Kremlin said Putin spoke on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping for an hour and that the two leaders rejected the “US policy of interfering in the internal affairs of other states”. Putin and Xi also saw eye-to-eye on the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin added without elaborating. Beijing has not condemned Russia’s full-scale invasion and claims neutrality in the conflict. Presidential hopeful and prominent Ukraine war critic, Boris Nadezhdin said the elections commission had blocked his bid to challenge Putin in March’s elections and that he would challenge the decision in the country’s highest court. Russian President Vladimir Putin told right-wing US journalist Tucker Carlson that Western countries needed to understand that it was “impossible” to defeat Russia in Ukraine. He also said Russia would fight for its interests, but had no interest in expanding its war into other countries such as Poland and Latvia. Putin and Carlson spoke for more than two hours in an interview that was dubbed into English and uploaded to Carlson’s website. Putin also told Carlson, who asked few tough questions and mostly just listened, that he thought “an agreement could be reached” in the case of jailed Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich who has been detained since March last year accused of spying. Gershkovich and the Journal have rejected the charges. A court in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don jailed a Ukrainian woman for 10 years for spying, after she was accused of providing information about Russian air defence and military equipment to Ukraine’s armed forces. Weapons A bill that includes $61b in aid for Ukraine moved forward in the US Senate after the failure of a broader bill including border control measures demanded by right-wing Republicans failed. It was not clear when the Senate would consider final passage, and the bill is likely to face hostility in the Republican-led House of Representatives. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/9/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-716

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