The Daily Populous

Monday July 14th, 2025 morning edition

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JOINT BASE ANDREWS, United States — President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States would send Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine to help it fight off a Russian invasion, as his relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin soured.

“We will send them Patriots, which they desperately need,” Trump said, without specifying how many, just two weeks after Washington said it would pause some arms deliveries to Kyiv.

“I haven’t agreed on the number yet, but they’re going to have some because they do need protection,” he told reporters.

The weapons delivery will be part of a new deal, which Trump says will involve NATO paying the United States for some of the weapons it sends to Ukraine.

“We basically are going to send them various pieces of very sophisticated military and they’re going to pay us 100 percent for them,” Trump told reporters.

He talks nice and then he bombs everybody in the evening,” said the disgruntled Trump.

US special envoy Keith Kellogg is due to begin his latest visit to Ukraine on Monday. »

Birds thriving, breeding successfully in Germany’s solar parks

Authored by pv-magazine.com

Biologist Matthias Stoefer said the high density of breeding larks in one of Germany’s largest solar parks in Brandenburg, north of Berlin, is astonishing.

In his breeding territory mapping, he counted 178 spots within the solar park and surrounding areas.

The ground-mounted PV system, with its dense row spacing, also does not meet the recommendations for biodiverse solar parks. »

Chimps are sticking grass and sticks in their butts, seemingly as a fashion trend

Authored by cbc.ca

A group of chimpanzees in Zambia have resurrected an old fashion trend with a surprising new twist.

The chimps, he says, have been putting blades of grass and sticks into their ears and anuses, and simply letting them dangle there for no apparent reason.

In fact, the researchers suspect the chimps learned the behaviour from people — the ear part, that is. »