Israel’s “extensive” ground operations in Gaza; Russia’s biggest drone strikes on Ukraine, and more
The World in Brief from The Economist
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🗓️ 19 May 2025
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| 0:54.8 | Israel's armed forces said they had begun extensive ground operations in Gaza. |
| 0:59.7 | The move follows days of Israeli airstrikes, which killed 135 people overnight on May 17th to 18th, according to Palestinian officials. |
| 1:08.5 | Renewed ceasefire talks in Qatar has so far made little progress. |
| 1:12.7 | Earlier, Israel said that its negotiators would aim to end the fighting while securing |
| 1:17.1 | the release of all hostages, the exile of Hamas terrorists and the disarmament of Gaza. |
| 1:24.1 | Russia launched its biggest drone attack on Ukraine so far, the Ukrainian Air Force said. |
| 1:29.2 | Russia fired 273 drones at the region around Kiev, Ukraine's capital, as well as at |
| 1:34.1 | Nipopetrovsk and Donetsk in the east. The strikes killed one person and wounded several others. |
| 1:40.4 | Earlier, Donald Trump said he would call his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Monday in an |
| 1:45.2 | effort to end the bloodbath. |
| 1:48.7 | Raffel Tavskowski, the Liberal candidate for president, supported by Poland's ruling civic |
| 1:53.1 | coalition, and Carol Novrodsky, the candidate of the populist right, looked set to face |
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