Chernihiv has been hit by several 🇷🇺 missiles, leaving at least 10 people dead.

“This would not have happened if Ukraine had received enough air defense equipment and if the world's determination to counter Russian terror was also sufficient,” says the city’s mayor.

JUST IN: #Myanmar army spokesman Zaw Min Tun confirms state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, president Win Myint moved out of jail to be placed under house arrest

Reasons for transfer: old age and extreme heat in jail

Kicked off a new series for The Context with Christian Fraser today! Every Tuesday until the EU Elections in June, we’ll be taking an in-depth look at different countries and the issues that’ll shape votes there. (1/2)

Assume Iran had conducted the exact same attack on April 2, the day after Israel’s consulate attack, and before Israel would’ve had same time to prepare, before a US-led coalition could be established, etc. Highly likely there would’ve been more damage.

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Israel says - with allies’ help - it has intercepted vast majority of more than 300 drones & missiles launched by Iran overnight.

Latest here: bbc.co.uk/news/live/worl…

Turns out advanced missile and drone defense systems work but you need them in volume and with ammunition - both of which Ukraine is now lacking.

Middle East situation @ 22.10 UK time:
- Jordan declares state of emergency, closes airspace
- Iran will try to flood Israeli defences by launching different drone and missiles types, with varied attack profiles
- Israel + US attempts to shoot them down, similarly, layered
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On America's great disappearing act in Myanmar. At one time the buzziest of foreign policy issues in Washington, as Myanmar spirals into worsening violence that threatens the entire region the country's once loud champions are all but silent.

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Renew president Valerie Hayer has summoned all her 100 MEPs to be present at key votes on creating a common EU migration policy in around one hour. It’s a crunch vote, and politicians are saying if one piece falls it will throw 8 years of negotiations into doubt.

Today’s Russian newspapers show that, sometimes, criticism of the authorities is allowed in the Russian press. That’s to say, criticism of local authorities, regional authorities…not the Kremlin. Plus, watch to the end for Anglicisms galore. #ReadingRussia

No stoner left unturned.

It began in brutal earnest thirty years ago today. I remember the the smell, the decomposing dead, the survivors, the fear, the abandonment, the lessons never learned, those days that seem like yesterday #Rwanda

The Burmese Army - which is accused of the genocide of #Rohingya Muslims - is now forcing their young men to fight for the military in the country's brutal civil war.

A revealing sign of desperation from #Myanmar 's junta as it loses territory in #Rakhine state, writes Jonathan Head.

How free is Greece’s media? I travel to my home town, Athens, to speak to journalists who have had their phones hacked by an advanced new spyware, been sued for defamation, and been under surveillance by the Greek intelligence agency.

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Reflections from our week in #Estonia & meeting the new generation facing up to the threat of #Russia - later on Radio4.

It's on From Our Own Correspondent (still my favourite prog after 20 years!)

You can also listen here. The two dispatches from #Rwanda are incredibly vivid:

The IDF has significantly reduced its presence in Gaza, having gone from a peak of 20 brigades to just a single one. Significance?
- an Op to take Rafah would require weeks of build up
- Israel's political 'morning after' plan may be absent, but we now see the military one
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The Russian air force is stepping up its use of Soviet-era weapons that have been retrofitted for 21st-century warfare and are pounding Ukrainian forces, pulverising towns and giving Moscow an advantage on the battlefield.

My piece for Financial Times on the Russian 'glide bombs' targeting

Here's my assessment from Jerusalem of six months of war in Gaza.

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