By Jessie Yeung and Victoria Butenko, CNN

(CNN) — Russian missiles struck Kyiv early Thursday, with loud explosions heard in the Ukrainian capital just hours before British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to arrive for a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The attack hit two districts of Kyiv and killed two people, including a teenager, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service. The strike caused fires at warehouses and nearby vehicles, it said.

The attack came ahead of Starmer’s visit to Kyiv on Thursday – one of his final international engagements before he makes way for a new prime minister.

Starmer and Zelensky are set to discuss progress made in the war against Russia, including the UK’s efforts to support Ukraine both militarily and diplomatically.

“I am so proud of what Britain has contributed,” Starmer said in a statement. “That work will continue, and our cast-iron support for Ukraine will always endure. Not just for them and for European security, but for families in Britain who have felt the cost of this war through rising prices.”

The Thursday attack also comes after Zelensky dismissed Ukraine’s defense minister, Mykhaylo Fedorov, in a government reshuffle. Just days earlier, Zelensky had also dismissed Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, who had only served a year in office.

The reshuffle has been controversial, with some critics warning it could cause instability at a critical time of the war, Reuters reported. Fedorov led Ukraine’s war effort, including the technological evolution that has made Kyiv such a formidable opponent.

In a statement late Wednesday, Fedorov said it had been a “great honor” to serve in his role. He praised his team’s achievements during his tenure – including beefing up Ukraine’s drone program and air defenses, significantly increasing its forces’ ability to intercept Russian drones and cruise missiles.

Ukraine also successfully carried out a ballistic missile test, he revealed – conducted, “symbolically, on the day the government was formed.”

Nearly five years into the conflict, the toll has been heavy for both sides. Ukraine’s advanced drone campaign has had extraordinary scale and impact, especially in the past month. Kyiv has sometimes launched hundreds of drones in a single night, targeting oil refineries, naval vessels and weapons, showing an increasing ability to strike deep into Russian territory.

Some of these attacks forced Moscow to suspend traffic this week through the gateway to the Black Sea, a key waterway that had for years been out of Kyiv’s reach – limiting the Kremlin’s ability to trade with the rest of the world.

But Ukraine is feeling the pain, too. June was the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since April 2022, the United Nations said this week – an increase driven by long-range Russian missiles fired into urban residential buildings.

Zelensky has repeatedly pleaded with allies to provide more support in bolstering Ukraine’s depleted air defenses – including the tentative go-ahead from the US to manufacture its own Patriot intercepters, the only weapon that can take down some of Russia’s most advanced ballistic missiles.

In a surprise announcement on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Turkey last week, US President Donald Trump publicly gave Ukraine the green light to make the Patriots – though he was vague in his wording and admitted he had not yet discussed the issue with the US manufacturers of the systems.

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(CNN) — The US plans to impose a 25% tariff on some Brazilian imports, after a yearlong investigation concluded that the country had engaged in “unfair” trade practices.

United States Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer ‌announced the measures late Wednesday in a statement, saying their investigation concluded Brazilian policies harm the interests of Americans with practices relating to digital trade, unfair preferential tariffs, ethanol market access and other areas.

“President Lula and his government have not negotiated with the US in good faith,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on X. “His economic policies are bad for Americans and bad for Brazilians. For the past year, Lula has put his own ego ahead of making a deal for the welfare of the Brazilian people, and these tariffs are the price for that.”

The tariffs, first proposed last month, will go into effect on July 22.

Exemptions apply to some goods that could disrupt supply chains and that are not produced in the US, a notice shared by the Office of the USTR said. This includes certain raw materials, pharmaceuticals, coffee, among others.

Greer said the US remains open to continuing negotiations with Brazil to resolve the issues.

The US launched the initial investigation last July under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, designed to affect foreign practices affecting US commerce and competitiveness.

That same month President Donald Trump also announced a 50% tariff on Brazil –– later dropped –– and accused its government of human rights abuses. Trump had threatened economic measures if Brazil did not end its trial against the right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro.

Section 301 is most often invoked for countries that run a significant trade surplus with the US like China, which exported $202.1 billion more in goods last year than it imported from the US. The US goods trade surplus with Brazil was $14.4 billion last year, up 112.8% compared to the year prior.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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El presidente Donald Trump ha desaprovechado múltiples oportunidades para explicar a los estadounidenses cómo su última escalada ganará la guerra en Irán o cómo aliviará los precios perpetuamente altos de los alimentos, la vivienda y el combustible.

Ahora planea centrar su discurso nacional del jueves por la noche en una obsesión personal con el pasado: su falsa afirmación de que ganó las elecciones de 2020.

Los críticos temen que todo esto forme parte de un esfuerzo acelerado por minar la confianza en los sistemas electorales y crear un pretexto para usar el poder federal e influir en las elecciones de mitad de mandato de noviembre.

No sería la primera vez que este presidente —de quien se espera que fortalezca la democracia estadounidense— la socava.

“No hay nada más importante, porque sin elecciones libres y justas, no hay país”, declaró el presidente el miércoles al presentar un adelanto de su discurso. “También hablaremos de otros temas, pero será un anuncio muy importante”.

La creciente retórica de advertencias de Trump está aumentando la inquietud de que no se limite a reciclar afirmaciones sobre las elecciones de 2020 que fueron desmentidas por varios tribunales, republicanos estatales e incluso por su propia administración durante su primer mandato.

Trump, como ya lo ha hecho en el pasado, parece estar construyendo una narrativa alternativa en caso de que el Partido Republicano obtenga malos resultados en noviembre y para presentar cualquier elección que no gane como, por definición, injusta.

Fuera de la Casa Blanca, nadie sabe qué dirá el presidente el jueves.

Pero aún no hay indicios creíbles de que posea nuevas pruebas contundentes de fraude electoral que contradigan la abrumadora evidencia de que las elecciones de 2020 fueron justas, ni los innumerables estudios académicos que demuestran que las irregularidades importantes son muy raras en las elecciones estadounidenses.

Pero el discurso de Trump podría confirmar un patrón ya conocido.

En 2016, 2020 y 2024, a medida que se acercaban las elecciones, el presidente intensificó sus esfuerzos por sembrar dudas sobre la imparcialidad de los comicios.

En 2020, esto se transformó en una injerencia electoral activa tras negarse a reconocer la victoria de Joe Biden e intentar anular el resultado sin pruebas.

Su campaña culminó en un disturbio protagonizado por sus seguidores con el objetivo de impedir la certificación de la victoria del presidente electo, durante el cual agentes de policía fueron agredidos y el Capitolio de Estados Unidos fue profanado.

En uno de los primeros actos de su segundo mandato, Trump indultó o conmutó las penas de cientos de personas condenadas en relación con los sucesos del 6 de enero de 2021, enviando el mensaje de que la violencia electoral o los intentos de subvertir la democracia en su nombre eran aceptables y estaban por encima de la ley.

Las alarmas vuelven a sonar, en parte debido al papel del director interino de inteligencia nacional de Trump, Bill Pulte, a quien el presidente insinuó que había enviado a la principal agencia de espionaje para encontrar pruebas de “elecciones fraudulentas”.

Mientras tanto, el FBI ha estado investigando las elecciones de 2020 en Georgia, estado que Trump perdió, tras incautar cajas de material electoral.

Dichas elecciones fueron declaradas libres y justas en repetidas

By Zachary Cohen, CNN

(CNN) — The investigation into a US strike that hit a school in Iran has sat for months with a military command while leaders have held off on ordering a critical, standard intelligence review to help determine what happened, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

Within a week of the strike, the first two stages of a “battle damage assessment” focused on answering basic questions including whether the strike hit and damaged the intended target had been completed, indicating that the US was responsible for striking the Shajareh Tayyiba school in Minab, the sources said.

But a third standard review stage, a step where analysts – typically from the Defense Intelligence Agency – review the entire body of relevant satellite imagery and other intelligence sources to provide a more holistic determination about what took place and how a strike impacted the broader mission, was not ordered, the sources said. That review would almost always be conducted in the immediate aftermath of a noteworthy strike, they said, but it had not begun as of early July.

An independent investigation – announced in March – was separately launched, and interviews were conducted with service members involved with the strike. Sources said that the information gained from interviews, material that could be useful to commanders still launching strikes against Iran to avoid mistakes, has been “locked down” by US Central Command with only a handful of officers permitted access to the details.

“There was no detailed analysis conducted and CENTCOM locked down the investigation/blocked anyone from looking into it,” one of the sources said.

A Defense Department official told CNN that “the investigation is ongoing.”

“We have nothing further to announce at this moment,” the official added.

The sources said the investigation would help determine fault for the mistaken strike.

The decision to launch the investigation should not have precluded DIA from conducting the more thorough third phase of the review, the first source told CNN, adding “both could have happened at the same time if they chose to.”

An additional DIA review would not, in and of itself, have determined who was at fault but could have been used as evidence, the source added.

A US official told CNN that the internal Pentagon investigation was intended to supersede a traditional third phase assessment, and both could not happen at the same time because it was clear after the initial review that the incident required a thorough probe – by an independent body outside of CENTCOM and unattached to other agencies that would have had a role in the strike itself.

Once the independent investigation findings were submitted to CENTCOM back in April, the subsequent delay was due to a need to examine what happened even further, the official said, pointing to the fact that the failures contributing to the accidental strike went back years and involved multiple layers of potential missteps.

A week after the strike and after the initial two phases of review, evidence was already beginning to emerge that the US military had accidentally hit the elementary school due, at least in part, to outdated intelligence about the targeted site – which was believed to be an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval base, sources said.

Iranian state media said that 168 children and 14 adults died in the attack.

As of early July, the Pentagon had not asked the Defense Intelligence Agency to conduct the third and final phase of the battle damage assessment, a role the agency almost always ful

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