Ukraine war briefing: Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant targeted by drones for third day

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David Cameron’s attempt to persuade Donald Trump to permit the US Congress to push through $60bn in military aid for Ukraine appears to have failed, after the British foreign secretary was not even granted a meeting with congressional speaker Mike Johnson, who could in theory put the package to a vote. Johnson instead found himself assailed by the hard-right Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who renewed her threats of a snap vote to remove him from office for even countenancing a vote. At a private dinner in Trump’s Florida base, Mar-a-Lago, Cameron had urged the former president to recognise that...