Russia | Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader, has not been heard from for nearly a week and his lawyers have been unable to contact him, his supporters have said. Yoav Gallant said that heavy fighting could stretch on for weeks, with further military activity continuing for months. Israel-Hamas war | Heavy fighting was reported across Gaza late into the evening on Monday, as Israel’s defence minister pushed back against international calls to wrap up the country’s military offensive in the territory. With talks unlikely to end as scheduled today, Australia, the US, the UK, Canada and Japan said that the draft was too weak and they would not sign it. The text, described by the chair of the Alliance of Small Island States as “our death certificate”, does not require a full phase-out of fossil fuels. Five big storiesĬop28 | A draft Cop28 deal is “grossly insufficient” and will not stop the world from facing dangerous climate breakdown, according to delegates at the summit. Today’s newsletter, with the Guardian’s political correspondent Kiran Stacey, is about those two irreconcilable tendencies: what they want, how they’ll vote, and why they’re using this battle to prepare for a wider war.

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