The pause is not being taken seriously in Ukraine, for the most part. It has been greeted instead as more of a propaganda exercise. Pavlo Klimkin, the former foreign minister of Ukraine, told the BBC it was simply another Russian show of force.
He also gave details of how Trump wanted to co-operate with Russia after relations had been normalised. "Who doesn't want to have a world where Russia and the US are doing collaboratively good things together, thinking about how to integrate their energy polices in the Arctic, share sea lines maybe, send LNG gas into Europe together, maybe collaborate on AI together?"A four-mile (7km) dry stone wall is being built to help a major new commuter road blend into its Cotswolds surroundings.
Twelve stonemasons have already spent a year constructing the wall traditionally using honey-coloured Cotswold stone, at a pace of one metre per day, next to the A417 Missing Link between Gloucester and Cirencester.They are not expected to finish the task until the end of 2026."It's great to see the walls come to life, knowing that they will become a valuable habitat feature for many species as well as looking incredible," said Natasha James, an ecologist working on the wall.
The stone masons were taught how to construct Cotswold stone walls by experts at the Dry Stone Walling Association (DSWA).According to the DWSA, dry stone walls protect fauna from bees to toads to shrews, and flora from liverworts to rusty back ferns.
Dry stone walls are not built with mortar, but careful selection of interlocking stones ensures they are strong – the oldest ones in the UK date back thousands of years.
Bernard McEnroe, managing director of Master Stone Masons UK, has been working on the wall.Now, the 62-year-old Indian billionaire and a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose sprawling $169bn empire spans ports and renewable energy, faces US fraud charges that could potentially jeopardise his ambitions at home and abroad.
Federal prosecutors have accused him of orchestrating aand concealing it to raise money in the US. They allege Mr Adani and his executives paid bribes to Indian officials to secure contracts worth $2bn in profits over 20 years. Adani Group has denied the allegations, calling them "baseless."
But this is already hurting the group and the Indian economy.Adani Group firms lost $34bn in market value on Thursday, reducing the combined market capitalisation of its 10 companies to $147bn. Adani Green Energy, which is the firm at the centre of the allegations, also said it wouldn't proceed with a $600m bond offering.