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White House says theme of president’s speech will be democracy as he speaks from Pointe du Hoc Beyond marking the anniversary of D-day, Joe Biden is using his visit to Normandy to rally support for Ukraine. Today, the Guardian’s Angelique Chrisafis reports that he apologized to Volodymyr Zelenskiy for the delay in getting the country military aid:The US president, Joe Biden, has apologised publicly to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, for the months of delay in American military assistance that allowed Russia to make gains on the battlefield, and announced a further $225m (£177m) in military aid to Ukraine. Continue

PM, who left to attend an ITV interview, says ‘the last thing I wanted was for the commemorations to be overshadowed by politics’Sign up for Election Edition, our UK general election newsletterI think it would be fair to say that children’s minister David Johnston is not having a vintage media round today.First he was ambushed by Rishi Sunak issuing his D-day absence apology while the minister was literally out defending Sunak by repeatedly pointing out that he had been in France earlier in the day and in Portsmouth the day before . Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/jun/07/general-election-2024-bbc-debate-uk-politics-live-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer Author :

Residents said that tanks have taken control along the border with Egypt and were making raids towards the west and centre of the citySee all our Israel-Gaza war coverageAt least nine Yemeni employees of UN agencies have been detained by Yemen’s Houthi rebels under unclear circumstances, authorities said on Friday, reports the Associated Press (AP). The news agency adds that others working for aid groups are also likely to have been taken.The detentions come as the Houthis, who seized Yemen’s capital nearly a decade ago and have been fighting a Saudi-led coalition since shortly after, have been targeting shipping throughout

As grim memory of world war fades, many people are anxious amid rise of nationalist, country-first rhetoricTwenty-two British D-day veterans, the youngest nearly 100, crossed the Channel on Tuesday to mark this week’s 80th anniversary of the landings in Normandy, representing a thinning thread to the heroics of two or three generations ago when about 150,000 allied soldiers began a seaborne invasion of western Europe that helped end the second world war.Ron Hayward, a tank trooper who lost his legs fighting in France three weeks after D-day, told crowds assembled in Portsmouth on Wednesday why he and other soldiers were