Good morning. We're covering the Ukrainian president's trip to Greece and an Iranian military delegation's visit to Russia. |
Plus: Bringing Orwell to Zimbabwe. |
 | | President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece.Kostas Tsironis/EPA, via Shutterstock |
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Dueling tours for influence in Ukraine war |
Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, arrived in Athens for meetings with the leaders of Greece and other Balkan nations to discuss security concerns and better integration with Europe. It was Zelensky's fourth stop on a European tour aimed at securing more weaponry. A day earlier, he received commitments of dozens of F-16 fighter jets from Denmark and the Netherlands. |
Brig. Gen. Kioumars Heydari, the head of Iran's ground forces, was welcomed to Moscow by his Russian counterpart. Heydari said that Tehran's ground forces were ready to increase their cooperation with Russia, Iran's state news agency reported. |
E.U. commitments: In Sweden on Saturday, Zelensky said he had reached an agreement involving the supply of armored vehicles. On Sunday, Zelensky went on to the Netherlands — securing a pledge for 42 F-16 fighter jets — and later Denmark, which said it would donate 19 of the military jets. |
In Athens, Zelensky referred to a Greek proposal to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets. But late yesterday, it was unclear what, if anything, Ukraine and Greece had agreed to. |
 | | Ethiopian migrants boarding a boat in Djibouti to reach Saudi Arabia, in 2019.Nariman El-Mofty/Associated Press |
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Rights group accuses Saudi guards of killing migrants |
Human Rights Watch said in a report released yesterday said that border guards in Saudi Arabia had regularly opened fire on African migrants seeking to cross into the kingdom from Yemen. Hundreds — and possibly thousands — of men, women and children were killed between March 2022 and June of this year, the report estimated. |
The guards have beaten the migrants with rocks and bars, forced male migrants to rape women while guards watched and shot detained migrants in their limbs, the report said, adding that the shooting of migrants was "widespread and systematic" and could constitute a crime against humanity. |
A Saudi government statement dismissed the report as "unfounded and not based on reliable sources." |
 | | Lucy Letby was convicted of killing seven newborns and trying to kill six others.Christopher Furlong/Getty Images |
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U.K. nurse gets life sentence for killing newborns |
Lucy Letby, a nurse who became the most prolific serial killer of children in modern British history, was sentenced yesterday to life in prison without parole. Her sentencing was the culmination of a yearslong case that has horrified the country and raised questions over the management culture that allowed her to evade detection for so long. |
Letby received a "whole life order," meaning she will spend the rest of her life in prison, a sentence reserved for the country's worst offenses. She is only the fourth woman to receive such a sentence. |
The government has ordered an independent inquiry into how Letby managed to remain undetected for years after the British news media reported that hospital managers had ignored repeated warnings about her conduct. |
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- Donald Trump's bail was set at $200,000 in a sprawling racketeering case charging him and 18 associates with election interference in Georgia. He said he would turn himself in on Thursday.
- In Ecuador, two presidential candidates — an establishment leftist and a newcomer from the business world — will compete in a runoff in October.
- Japan's plan to release into the ocean more than 1.3 million tons of treated water from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has triggered a backlash in the region, especially in highly polarized South Korea.
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Bringing Orwell to Zimbabwe |
George Orwell's "Animal Farm" is acclaimed around the world, including in Zimbabwe, which is holding elections tomorrow. Now, a Shona language translation of the classic is making it resonate on a deeper level. |
Shona storytellers have always used fables and allegory, and now Zimbabweans have adopted Orwell's allegorical tale to comment on the state of politics in the country, said Tinashe Muchuri, a poet and one of the lead translators. "The story can be set anywhere in the world and make sense," Muchuri said. "Human beings are not different; they act and behave the same when in power." |
Sixteen translators worked for seven years to create "Chimurenga Chemhuka," or "Animal Revolution." The names of the characters have been adapted to Shona, and the translation uses local dialects. The pigs speak Manyika, Muchuri said, as Zimbabwe's revolutionary leaders did, and the sheep bleat in slang. |
— Lynsey Chutel, our Briefings writer based in Johannesburg. |
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That's it for today's briefing. Thanks for joining me. — Jonathan |
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