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The United States will provide a new $2.3 billion security assistance package for Ukraine that will include key air defence and anti-tank weapons, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday.
The announcement comes as Kyivโs weakened and outgunned forces are struggling to hold back invading Russian troops, with Moscow regularly claiming the capture of new villages in eastern Ukraine.
โThe United States will soon announce more than $2.3 billion in new security assistance for Ukraine,โ Austin said at the start of a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Rustem Umerov.
โThis packageโฆ will provide more air defence interceptors, anti-tank weapons, and other critical munitionsโ drawn from US stocks, Austin said. โIt will also enable the United States to procure more Patriot and NASAMS air defense interceptors which will be provided on an accelerated timeline,โ the US defense chief said.
Canadian tourist assaulted in Dublin dies
Canadian tourist assaulted in Dublin dies Gardaรญ are continuing to investigate the assault A 41-year-old Canadian tourist who was assaulted in Dublin has died in hospital.
Neno Dolmajian, who was from Montreal, died in the city’s Mater Hospital after sustaining serious injuries. The incident happened on OโConnell Street and Cathal Brugha Street in Dublin city centre, in the early hours of Sunday 23 June.
Two men have appeared in court in connection with the incident – both were remanded in custody. Gardaรญ (Irish police) said they were continuing to investigate the assault. “To date, four men have been arrested in connection with this incident. Two of these men have been charged and appeared before the Criminal Courts of Justice,” they added in a statement.
ย Doctors dismissed these women as ‘hysterical’. Now they’re fighting back
Thereโs a memory, or more specifically a moment, that came to define Heidi Metcalfโs second birth. It wasnโt saying goodbye to her husband and newborn before being wheeled into an operating theatre, or the heart attack she thought she was having as she lay there on the table.
It was when a male obstetrician โripped the placentaโ out of her body, without word or warning. A nurse, Ms Metcalf knows the intervention – while immensely painful – was necessary. She couldn’t push it out naturally, which was causing potentially fatal bleeding.
But she hadnโt โseen or met this man beforeโ, and she couldnโt get past the fact that her consent, during one of the most traumatic experiences of her life, โmeant so littleโ.
โIt felt like a violation – I needed to feel involved in what was happening to my body, and not just like a bystander.โ Ms Metcalf is one of thousands of Australian women who have come forward to tell their stories after the federal government assembled a team of experts to tackle what it calls โmedical misogynyโ.
So far, they have uncovered that a staggering two-thirds of females nationwide have encountered gender bias or discrimination in healthcare. And many say it is taking place when they’re at their most vulnerable, such as during intimate examinations, or like Ms Metcalf, while in labour. Others report having their pain dismissed or dangerously misdiagnosed.
The BBC spoke to six women for this piece. They shared experiences of being called โanxiousโ, โpushyโ or even โhystericalโ while seeking treatment for a range of debilitating symptoms.
