Daily News June 23 2022 9am Thursday

The team reports from the city of Gorlovka in the Donetsk People's republic as shelling of residential areas by Ukrainian forces intensifies. An online summit of the BRICS group of countries kicks off on Thursday. The meeting is going ahead despite Western attempts to drive a wedge between the emerging economies. The US Federal reserve appears to challenge President Biden's stance that Russia is to blame for soaring inflation in the US. Despite the EU's vocal green agenda, the bloc's demand for rubber imports from Africa is a key cause of deforestation in the region, according to an NGO report.