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Biden is due to make brief remarks on Wednesday at an arrival ceremony, before receiving a briefing from Israeli defence officials on the US-supported Iron Dome system and a new laser-enabled system called Iron Beam.

Brittney Griner, the American basketball superstar detained in Russia, has written to US President Joe Biden pleading for help.

The United States has said the Group of Seven (G7) nations will ban the import of Russian gold with the aim of tightening sanctions screws on Moscow, which on Sunday carried out missile strikes on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv after making territorial gains in the eastern Luhansk region.

A student who survived the Uvalde shooting by covering herself in a classmate's blood has told Congress of witnessing the moment her teacher was killed during the massacre.

Vice-President Kamala Harris began her remarks at the White House by paying condolences to families who said goodbye to their loved ones for the last time on Tuesday morning.

In the course of the next few days, Priti Patel will make the most important ruling on free speech made by any home secretary in recent memory. She must resolve whether to comply with a US request to extradite Julian Assange on espionage charges.

Announcing his £35bn ($44bn) acquisition of Twitter this week, Elon Musk made a typically sweeping claim: “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.”

What about the surname of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, or Zelenskyy, depending on which U.S. publication you’re reading? (The Post and the New York Times, among others, prefer the single “y,” while USA Today, the Associated Press and others go with “yy.”) To some people..

Ukrainian officials say a hospital complex in the besieged southeastern port city of Mariupol has been hit by a Russian attack.

Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the western response to Vladimir Putin’s growing list of crimes has been to impose sanctions on his “cronies”. In recent years there have been particularly insistent demands for sanctions on rich Russian oligarchs resident in London.