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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces hit an important fuel pipeline in the Moscow region that supplies the Russian army, Ukraine's military intelligence said Saturday, as Russia kept up a sustained campaign of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.The operation was carried out late Friday, according to a statement on the Telegram messaging channel. The agency, which is known by its acronym HUR, described it as a “serious blow” to Russia’s military logistics.HUR said its forces struck the Koltsevoy pipeline, which spans 400 kilometers (250 miles) and supplies the Russian army with gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from refineries in Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow.The operation, which targeted infrastructure near Ramensky district, destroyed all three fuel lin...

Authorities working on the case of the heist of priceless Napoleonic crown jewels from the Louvre last month have revealed key information about the team currently suspected of the daring raid. Prosecutors charged a 38-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man in connection with the robbery on Saturday, bringing the total number of suspects charged to four.Paris prosecutor Laure Beccau said the man was charged with theft by an organized gang and criminal conspiracy, and that his DNA was found inside the basket lift that was used to reach the museum's window. The woman is accused of being an accomplice. Beccau said both have denied their involvement in the robbery of priceless crown jewels in a daylight heist that has gripped France and stunned art lovers around the world, and both remain in cu...

After five years of saying it did not have plans to build a second location, a site plan for another H-E-B has been filed with the Lubbock site plan committee.Little is known beyond the address, which will be 5805 19th St. near West Loop 289, according to site review documents from the city of Lubbock released this week.Currently, the land on the southeast corner of the intersection between the West Loop and 19th Street is vacant but near a shopping center and across 19th Street from Academy Sports + Outdoors.H-E-B opened its first Lubbock location, 4405 114th St., in October of 2020. Around that same time, the company purchased land near 19th Street and Frankford, but said there were no plans to build there at the time. The company maintained this stance when asked again in 2022.Looking f...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday urged Southeast Asian nations to stand firm and strengthen their maritime forces to counter China’s increasingly “destabilizing” actions in the South China Sea.Speaking at a meeting in Malaysia with his counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Hegseth reiterated U.S. concern over what he called China’s aggression in the disputed waters that intensified in recent months, citing incidents such as ramming of vessels and the use of water cannons.The South China Sea remains one of Asia’s most volatile flashpoints. Beijing claims almost the entire region, while ASEAN members the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei also claim ownership of coastal areas and features. The Philippines, a key U.S....

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers have already cast their ballots in the first days of early voting in the NYC mayoral election, as the three front-runners show no signs of letting up on their campaigns. Democratic nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani sought out older voters on Friday, doing Tai Chi with seniors on the Lower East Side, before heading out with trick-or-treaters in Park Slope on Halloween evening. Andrew Cuomo, the former Democratic governor of New York who is running as an independent, courted conservatives in Brighton Beach, while the Republican Curtis Sliwa was in Greenwich Village on the sixth day of early voting, ahead of November 4 election day.Read More: ‘A Politics of No Translation.’ Zohran Mamdani on His Unlikely RiseSome 480,000 people have already voted in t...

Ministers may have breached privacy laws when they suspended the child benefit of thousands of families on the basis of flawed Home Office information, legal experts have said.At the same time, the UK’s data watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office, has contacted the national tax authority, HMRC, over the issues raised.Pressure on the government to reveal the reason incomplete Home Office travel data was used by HMRC as part of a benefit crackdown has mounted as the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for work and pensions, Steve Darling, said what had happened was “unacceptable”.“After the carers allowance repayments scandal, this news raises fresh concerns that things are seriously wrong within our welfare system, with people paying the price through no fault of their own.“Ministers mus...

A resident enjoying a drive came across an unfortunate sight: a swath of invasive species growing unchecked along the roadside.In the r/invasivespecies Reddit forum, one poster shared a video of their drive through the middle of Tennessee, depicting "20+ acres" of Bradford (or callery) pear trees along the roadway.(Click here to watch the video if the embed does not appear.)"I have never seen it this bad. I was astonished. I don't think there was [a] single other tree species there," they commented.Bradford pear trees have been a popular decorative tree for landscapers for decades, but they've proved to have more problems than they're ultimately worth.They have a notoriously strong odor, produce large amounts of fruit that litter sidewalks, and can form dense thickets, not unlike the one s...

He's at it again! Andrew Harnik / Getty ImagesAfter demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make room for his ballroom, Trump unveiled on Truth Social what he did to the Lincoln bathroom. Alex Wong / Getty ImagesFrom this:Related: Trump's New Ballroom Is Under Construction And The Pictures Are Pissing People OffTo this:AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHe captioned the post: "I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!"He also shared several closeups of the furnishings: "...

Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned Thursday that history could "repeat itself" and criticised attempts to rehabilitate the Soviet leader's legacy.Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953, presided over a totalitarian state that executed and imprisoned millions of people that he deemed political enemies.His legacy is controversial among Russians, some of whom glorify him for leading the USSR to victory in World War II while others deplore him as a murderous tyrant.At the Butovo firing range, a Stalin-era execution site near Moscow that has become a shrine to his victims, visiting Russians warned against venerating the wartime leader or emulating his ideas."This is our history. We must know it, and we mus...

It’s no secret that we live in a sleep-deprived society. More than a third of Americans don’t get enough shuteye, defined as a minimum of seven hours a night. It’s not just the U.S.: much of the developed world is in a similar situation. “Sleep deprivation abounds,” says Eva Winnebeck, a chronobiologist at the University of Surrey in the U.K. “People do struggle to get up. Alarm clock use is high, lack of sleep is high.” (A rule of thumb: If you need an alarm clock to wake up, it probably means you aren’t sleeping enough.)So why, exactly, do we compound the problem of sleep deprivation twice a year with Daylight Saving Time? Why do we, in spring and fall—on November 2 for Americans—mess with our internal clocks?Experts think we should put this practice to rest. The American Academy of Slee...