President Vladimir Putin said he would not back down in Russia’s war against Ukraine to a crowd of thousands in Moscow on Monday, a day after declaring victory in a performative election that prompted comparisons to other authoritarian dictatorships. https://nyti.ms/3VqqgXE

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Riches to rags to riches. Egyptian investment billionaire Mohamed Mansour’s life story has the miraculous twists of fortune more typical of a Victorian novel.https://www.forbes.com/sites/m....onicahunter-hart/202

Famine is projected in northern Gaza, according to a new report from a global authority on food security set up by UN agencies and international relief groups. It has classified a famine only twice before: in Somalia in 2011 and in South Sudan in 2017. https://nyti.ms/3PlYTKn

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