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In 2020, a group of explorers looking for mammoth tusks in eastern Siberia made a surprising discovery – the mummy of a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten.

In a statement, Timothy Herbert, the chief of police in the city of Brentwood in eastern Contra Costa County, defended the officer handling the dog that day, saying his actions were justified.

The US has been criticised by humanitarian organisations for deciding to supply Ukraine with landmines, as the war in eastern Europe rages on.

Ukrainian leaders had hinted that they hoped the incursion would force Moscow to redirect some of its forces from eastern Ukraine, slowing the Russian advance there.

Russia's main offensive has long focused on the eastern Donetsk region, but this was one of the most significant ground assaults since the start of the war and further stretched Ukraine's front-line defences.