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Zelenskyy shook up his Cabinet. The Ukrainian president made Yuliia Svyrydenko, Ukraine鈥檚 economy minister and the key negotiator in the mineral deal with the U.S, the country鈥檚 new prime minister and its first new head of government since the start of Russia鈥檚 full-scale invasion in 2022. Ms. Svyrydenko is one of several officials taking on new roles in a bid to energize a war-weary nation. 鈥� The Associated Press

The Senate passed some Trump cuts.听The president had requested the canceling of about $9 billion in spending. The legislation now goes to the House. The targeted spending ranged from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to U.S. food aid programs abroad. 鈥� AP

Syria sought to shore up a shaky peace. Government officials and leaders in the Druze religious minority announced a renewed ceasefire. One announced Tuesday quickly fell apart. Israel continued airstrikes after some that struck the capital, Damascus, part of a campaign it said is intended to defend the Druze. The Trump administration was working on an agreement to de-escalate the situation between Israel and Syria, Axios reported Wednesday, citing an unnamed U.S. official. 鈥� AP and Reuters

Russia escalated its drone attacks on Ukraine. It struck four Ukrainian cities overnight into Wednesday, injuring at least 15 people and targeting energy infrastructure. U.S. President Donald Trump has set a Sept. 2 deadline for the Kremlin to reach a peace deal in the three-year war. He has warned of possible severe sanctions if a ceasefire isn鈥檛 reached, and pledged more weapons for Ukraine. 鈥� AP

The Justice Department fired a high-profile prosecutor. It fired Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a prosecutor in the federal cases against Sean 鈥淒iddy鈥� Combs and Jeffrey Epstein. No reason was immediately given. 鈥� AP (We look at new GOP infighting over the Epstein case.)

Trump appeared to pivot on a firing at the Fed. Bloomberg had reported that the president was likely to terminate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, sparking a drop in stocks and the dollar and a rise in Treasury yields. Not the case, Mr. Trump said Wednesday, after which stocks and Treasury yields moved again. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 rule out anything, but I think it鈥檚 highly unlikely unless he has to leave for fraud,鈥� he said. Mr. Powell鈥檚 term ends in May 2026. He was nominated by Mr. Trump in 2017. 鈥� Reuters and AP

Germany and Spain issued arrest warrants for pro-Russian hackers. They targeted seven suspected members of a group calling itself NoName057(16), accused of cyberattacks against infrastructure and public authorities in multiple countries. That followed an international operation also involving the U.S., France, Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. German prosecutors and the European agency Europol said Wednesday. German prosecutors said more than 24 premises were searched. 鈥� Reuters

Cambodian authorities made 1,000 arrests over cybercrime. Prime Minister Hun Manet ordered a crackdown on cybercrime operators. The United Nations and other agencies estimate that cyberscams, most of them originating from Southeast Asia, earn billions of dollars for criminal gangs around the world. 鈥� AP

Astronomers found the seeds of rocky planets around a baby sun. NASA and the European Southern Observatory in Chile unveiled early signs of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 鈥� a yellow dwarf, like the sun, yet much younger at 100,000 to 200,000 years old and some 1,370 light-years away. Calling their finding an unprecedented snapshot of 鈥渢ime zero,鈥� when new worlds begin to gel, scientists on Wednesday hailed it as an opportunity to study how solar systems like ours came to be. 鈥� AP

Congress approved $170 billion for immigration enforcement and border security, including a more than doubling of the budget for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to $75 billion over the next four-plus years. Now that the Trump administration has the money to significantly expand its mass deportation efforts, the question is how quickly it can reach its goal of deporting 1 million unauthorized immigrants a year听following historic levels of illegal crossings under former President Joe Biden.听But the effort faces steep logistical challenges and growing听legal and humanitarian concerns about the administration鈥檚 enforcement tactics.

Since Jeffery Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while in jail on charges of sex trafficking of minors, a subset of Trump supporters has demanded the release of government files they claim hold criminal evidence against prominent people who associated with the disgraced financier. Mr. Trump campaigned on a promise to release this 鈥渃lient list,鈥� and later appointed officials to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation who prioritized the issue. The president鈥檚 abrupt pivot has now opened a deep rift. 鈥淭he base wants the truth,鈥� says 海角大神 Forte, chairman of the Sacramento County GOP.

Armenia鈥檚 government is facing off against its ancient church as the former tries to forge a peace deal with the country鈥檚 long-time enemy, which the church sees as a deep betrayal 鈥� as do many Armenians.听鈥淭he Armenian Apostolic Church is one of the only institutions that is respected across a broad spectrum of Armenian society,鈥� says Atom Mkhitaryan, co-chair of the Armenian Association of Political Scientists.听Ultimately, the struggle between the government and the leaders of the Armenian Church establishment are likely to determine the little country鈥檚 future direction, and whether it faces West or continues to face East.

During the pandemic, foreigners arrived in Mexico City in droves, digital nomads newly untethered by the freedom of remote work and looking for new places to settle. That influx fueled a sense among residents of being pushed out and replaced. Now, with Mexico City acting as a FIFA World Cup host next year, residents are even more worried about the cultural 鈥渨hitewashing鈥� of their city and its neighborhoods.

Ten years ago, a man named Freddie Gray died while shackled during a violent ride through Baltimore in the back of a police van. In a series of gatherings this summer, artists throughout the city are remembering Mr. Gray through their creative works. That impulse has a deep tradition. Black Americans have long turned to art in response to racial injustice and structural violence. 鈥淎rt can be used as a challenge,鈥� says LaToya Pegram, an art therapist. 鈥淚 feel like it鈥檚 a less threatening way to combat what鈥檚 being resisted.鈥�

As technology 鈥� and its tendency to isolate people physically 鈥� has become more common, many parents are looking for more ways to get their kids out of the house and into the woods. The nonprofit Greenagers in western Massachusetts employs crews of local high schoolers to help maintain trails. Brian Arthur, a college student and team leader, says work reminds him of the childhood wonder of 鈥渇alling in love with nature.鈥�

One of the more unusual, and perhaps important, protests in Europe this year was a silent march July 11 of about 1,000 people in Novi Pazar. The city, located in the largely 海角大神 country of Serbia, is predominantly Muslim.

The march took place on the 30th anniversary of the worst massacre in Europe since World War II 鈥� the killing of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb soldiers.

Yet the protest was more than a commemoration of those killed in the village of Srebrenica in neighboring Bosnia. And it was more than a call for 海角大神 Serbs to remember how a past regime supported the genocide of Bosnian Muslims听in 1995.

Rather, the march 鈥� which included women in hijab waving the Serb flag 鈥� marked the expansion of Serb identity beyond the ethno-nationalism forced on the country under the 12-year authoritarian rule of President Aleksandar Vu膷i膰.

Muslims in Serbia have now joined student-led protests that began eight months ago and have rocked the government of Mr. Vu膷i膰 鈥� who worked for the dictator who ruled during the 1995 massacre. Their protest July 11 also remembered those 鈥渒illed by this regime in Serbia.鈥�

The student protests, which occur almost daily in many cities, are aimed at bringing down a government seen as responsible for the corruption behind the collapse in November of a new concrete canopy at a railway station. The incident killed 16 people.

It is Muslim Serbs who are now trying to persuade people that acknowledging the ethno-nationalist roots of the genocide is necessary to rid Serbia of its current repressive leaders, who both deny the genocide and use violence to suppress dissent. Last year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring July 11 as a day of remembrance of the Srebrenica genocide.

鈥淪erbia cannot get rid of Vu膷i膰 without asking how it all started,鈥� Aida 膯orovi膰, a human rights activist, told Danas news.听Serbia鈥檚 students have been struggling to include the massacre in their protest strategy.

鈥淎 government that buries the truth about the past cannot be trusted to deliver genuine justice, transparency and democratic rule,鈥� wrote Fred Abrahams, who covered the south Balkans for Human Rights Watch, in Euractiv.

The march in Novi Pazar was an opening for Serbs, especially pro-democracy students, to not bury the truth.