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Facing an election this weekend and the fallout from Aleksei Navalny’s death and the war in Ukraine, Russia has intensified online censorship using techniques pioneered by China.

The presidential vote in Russia begins on Friday and lasts through Sunday, and although it features the trappings of a horse race, it is more of a predetermined, Soviet-style referendum.

Telecommunications infrastructure has been devastated in the territory, largely preventing Palestinians from calling for help, coordinating the delivery of aid and communicating with family abroad.

Once dependent on Europe for trade, Russia has been forging new routes that will allow it to skirt Western restrictions. A planned railway through Iran could be key for those ambitions.

One woman said she had a hard time sitting down for meals knowing that many in Gaza were starving: “I keep asking myself, did they eat?”

There were hopes for a last-minute deal, but both sides said they weren’t close to an agreement.

Three days before the 2003 ceremony, the United States invaded Iraq. Despite pleas to delay the awards, the academy went ahead with what became a politics-suffused evening.

Ukraine has committed significant forces to defending the area, and Russian troops are now attacking across open fields with little cover.

Hundreds of square miles of the rainforest have burned as countries in the region battle a record number of fires fueled by extreme weather.

Neither man was hurt, and it was unclear whether the Russian Army was targeting them.