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A US federal jury has sentenced the attacker who killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in October 2018 to the death penalty. The ruling needed a unanimous vote from the 12-member jury for the sentence to be imposed. Prosecutors had asked the jury to vote for the death penalty. The same jury found the man guilty of all 63 charges stremming from the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue. It was the worst antisemitic attack in American history.

In the the 18 months since Russia invaded, Ukraine has mostly been on the defensive, preventing Moscow's forces from seizing more territory. But this summer, Ukraine - with the help of billions of pounds of Western military equipment - has gone on the attack, attempting to expel the Russians from land they previously captured in the east and south of the country. Two months into this counter-offensive, and with time of the essence before the onset of winter, are Ukrainian troops making any real progress?