Daily News July 1st 2022 9am Friday

Fighting continues in the Lugansk People's Republic, with Russian forces advancing on Kiev's positions in the city of Lisichansk. A 'goodwill gesture': Russia says it has pulled its troops from Ukraine's Snake Island to facilitate the UN-backed export of grain, cutting off Kiev's speculation on the global food crisis. We must not promote a famine – that's the message from the Pakistani Foreign Minister, as she urges the US to unfreeze Afghanistan's assets amid a severe economic crisis. The pentagon is scrambling to fill its worst recruitment drive in decades while the latest US hypersonic missile test ends in failure.