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June 10, 2024
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Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation

After the costs of war on human life come the effects on everything people have built and grown. In Gaza, a ravaged infrastructure will need replacing. In Ukraine, despoiled croplands will require painstaking regeneration.

Howard LaFranchi, who wrote about the Ukrainian military’s agency in getting grain flowing again to global markets, reports today on the resilience of nature and villagers a year after the destruction of a Soviet-era dam.

Predictions were apocalyptic. Industrial sludge had flowed. The toxic aftermath can’t be ignored, but residents who stayed now nurture new growth. They rejoice that a toxic bloom didn’t materialize.

Some villages are dying, one man told Howard. “But we will do what we can to keep ours alive.”


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Rescued hostage Noa Argamani, held in Gaza for eight months, embraces her father, Yakov Argamani, in Ramat Gan, Israel, June 8, 2024. Ms. Argamani's abduction by Hamas militants on a motorcycle from a music festival in southern Israel became an iconic image of the Oct. 7 attack.

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Workers weld on a factory floor in Columbus, Ohio, March 26, 2024.
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Campers take part in a competition at the Justice Desk weekend camp outside Cape Town, South Africa.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attends a press conference in Berlin, Germany, June 10, the day after the election for the European Parliament.

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Arlo and Sonny Harris, children of candidate Claire Byrne, rest on the floor playing games on mobiles phones as her count is expected to be called at a local election counting center in Dublin June 8.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

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Thanks for starting a new week with us. Come back tomorrow. We’re working on stories that look at the far right’s gains in Europe’s elections, cricket’s growing fan base in the United States, and how Olympic basketball team rosters are made. 

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