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Russia has launched North Korean-supplied missiles at what Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is calling a key energy facility, as winter closes in. Foreign Minister Sybiha says Moscow is deliberately targeting electricity, heating, and water infrastructure, with millions of civilians now facing the consequences of that strategy.
Turning to France, veteran leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon is formally launching his two thousand twenty seven presidential campaign this weekend with a platform centered on raising the minimum wage, capping prices on essential foods, and rolling the retirement age back to sixty. Polls show him as the left's strongest challenger to Marine Le Pen, setting up what could be a defining ideological contest for the country.
And on the lighter side of tech, a developer has launched Solous, a private journaling app built around a genuinely interesting premise. Inspired by films like Inside Out, it frames your journal entries as conversations between the different emotions and voices within you, letting users reply to their own past entries as if in dialogue with themselves. It's a small project, but the idea that writing is never just one voice is worth sitting with.
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