Residents in the Ukrainian city of Herson may have some cause for hope. Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky set a cautious time to move forward. The country faces its biggest wave of strikes in decades, setting the stage for a winter of industrial discontent. And Chaim Sarannegi was first person to vote in newly independent India.
Russia says it will withdraw from the only captured Ukrainian provincial capital. We ask how the drawdown might go and what it means for the wider war. Britain is set for the largest wave of industrial action in decades; the strikes could throw the country into chaos. And the long life of Shyam Saran Negi, India’s first-ever voter.
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