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Local ceasefire in southern Ukraine extends to entire Kherson Oblast, officials say

A localized ceasefire that began in Russia-occupied Oreshki, in the Russian-occupied southern region of Kherson province, appears to have been extended to wider areas of the Kherson province, where the city is located. The ceasefire is intended to allow humanitarian supplies to be brought in and civilians to be evacuated. Thousands of residents of Oreshki, on the south bank of the Dnipro River, are currently trapped without food, water or electricity.

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Science

How rising seas transformed dry land into Venice lagoon

Scientists uncover ancient hills and swamps that disappeared as sea levels rose across northern Adriatic Venice is famed for being a floating city, but research shows the land it sits on once lay many miles inland. Dramatic changes in sea level over 10,000 years have reshaped the northern Adriatic coastline, with much of the land that our ancestors roamed now lying beneath the waves. Samuele Ongaro, at the University of Southampton, and colleagues combined seismic data with sedimentary cores from the coastal basins of northern Italy, Slovenia and northern Croatia to model changes in sea level

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International

Exit polls show no clear winner in Israeli general election, with neither ruling nor opposition party expected to reach a majority

Votes were counted in Israel's general election (120 seats, proportional representation system) on the 27th. Exit polls carried out by multiple local TV shows that neither the ruling nor opposition parties are able to secure a majority. This general election was the first since October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian armed group Hamas led an attack on Israel, and in response, Israel began its offensive against the Palestinian Gaza Strip.

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International

Starshield at minimum wages: what Musk, Trump and Zelensky argued about

SpaceX Internet in Ukraine has started working again. However, the story of its slowdown has left behind many questions, the main one of which is who made the decision to limit it and why? The BBC Russian service tried to understand the peculiarities of the provision of services by SpaceX to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the claims that Elon Musk made against them.

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