Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak greets Volodymyr Zelenskiy as the Ukraine president arrives in the United Kingdom. The British offer to train Ukrainian pilots on modern Nato fighter jets is a carefully couched hint to the rest of Nato that at some point it may have to provide modern jets to help Ukraine defend its airspace from the Russian air force.
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UK Election will choose 650 members of the House of Commons
People throughout the United Kingdom will choose all 650 members of the House of Commons on July 4 for a term of up to five years. The party that commands a majority in the Commons, either alone or in coalition, will form the next government and its leader will be the prime minister.
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Tigist Assefa beats women’s world record at the Berlin Marathon, Eliud Kipchoge won the men’s race for the fifth time
Tigst Assefa broke the women’s world record by more than two minutes Sunday at the Berlin Marathon, as Eliud Kipchoge won the men’s race for the fifth time but couldn’t break his own record. Ethiopian runner Assefa, the winner in Berlin a year ago, ran the race in 2 hours, 11 minutes, 53 seconds to break the previous women’s record of 2:14:04 set by Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei at the Chicago Marathon in 2019.
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Intense fighting was under way in Bakhmut
The Ukrainian military said on March 3, Intense fighting was under way in Bakhmut as Kyiv’s forces repelled multiple waves of Russian attacks in the disputed eastern region of Donetsk. The General Staff of the Ukrainian military said besides Bakhmut, which has been the epicenter of fighting in the east for months, the Ukrainian military fought off at least 85 attacks by Russian forces in the direction of the cities of Lyman, Avdiyivka, and Shakhtarsk in the Donetsk region and in Kupyansk in the northeastern Kharkiv region
