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Retreat or a trap? Russia signals a surprise withdrawal from a key city, but Ukrainians are wary  NBC News Ukrainian troops shell Russian positions north of Kherson • FRANCE 24 English  FRANCE 24 English Russian Forces Follow the Nazi Playbook in Evacuation

A third of glaciers in UNESCO World Heritage sites will disappear by 2050  NPR Gravitas: World’s most iconic glaciers to melt by 2050?  WION Climate change: Kilimanjaro’s and Africa’s last glaciers to go by 2050, says UN  BBC Major glaciers set to disappear

A new report says glaciers in a third of UNESCO World Heritage sites will disappear. Two-thirds of glaciers in the heritage sites can be saved — but only if carbon emissions are cut quickly, it says. (Image credit: Roberto Schmidt/AFP

Israel Prime Minister Yair Lapid congratulates Benjamin Netanyahu on election victory  CNN Netanyahu returns with boost from far-right  CBS Mornings Benjamin Netanyahu may be back – but the true victory belongs to Israel’s far right  The Guardian Netanyahu’s win comes at a cost

President Joe Biden’s travel itinerary for his last big campaign swing before the midterm elections reveals his defensive stance in the campaign’s closing days.

U.S. and Chinese officials are wrangling over whether the two presidents will meet around the Group of 20 summit in mid-November in an effort to prevent strained relations from deteriorating further.

Art experts in the Netherlands unveiled an oil sketch on Thursday by the famous Dutch master Rembrandt after it languished for a century in a forgotten corner of a museum, believed to be an imitation. “The Raising of the Cross”

Trump’s third run for the White House appears a matter of when not if  The Guardian US

President Joe Biden is expected to speak Thursday on student debt relief less than a week before midterm elections.

The seeds of misinformation about next week’s midterm elections were planted in 2020. That’s when baseless conspiracy theories about the presidential election took root and festered, helping to spur the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.