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An extensive public inquiry found that the causes of the Grenfell Tower tragedy stretched back decades, and that the deaths of 72 people were avoidable.

Russia attacked a number of cities a day after a devastating strike in the country’s east, Ukrainian officials said.

A damning final report into Britain’s worst residential fire since World War II blamed a litany of cost-cutting, dishonest sales practices and lax regulation for the blaze that killed 72 people.

Several ministers offered to resign in a major reshuffle of Ukraine’s government. While rescuers searched the rubble of a deadly strike on a military academy in eastern Ukraine, another Russian attack killed seven in the west.

Dmytro Kuleba has lobbied Kyiv’s allies to supply missile defense systems. He was among several Ukrainian ministers who offered to resign on Wednesday, an official said.

The latest proposals have yet to be finalized, and both Israeli officials and Hamas leaders have expressed pessimism over the prospects for an agreement.

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More tourists are eager to visit vanishing glaciers and ice caves, but warming is also making the sites unstable.

A South African beauty pageant contestant with Nigerian heritage was forced to withdraw from the competition after her participation fueled anti-immigrant sentiments.

The devastation of the strikes on Tuesday was shocking even to Ukrainians who have seen many such scenes during the war.