On Wednesday, August 20, this is how things are going.
Fighting
According to The Kyiv Independent news outlet, Russian authorities on Monday returned the remains of 1, 000 Ukrainian soldiers, according to Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
Russia’s state-run TASS news agency confirmed that Ukraine had returned 19 Russian soldiers’ bodies, adding that Russia had returned the bodies of 1, 000.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, about 1, 370 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in a single day, according to TASS. Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify this assertion.
According to Serhii Horbunov, the head of the Kostiantynivka City Military Administration, 250 kg (550 lbs) bombs were dropped on the Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region on Monday. According to Horbunov, at least two people were hurt, and one apartment building was damaged as well.
Two emergency workers in the Kharkiv district of Ukraine were hurt by a Russian drone attack on an ambulance, according to a post on Telegram from regional police.
According to Yevgeny Balitsky, governor of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia region, a Ukrainian drone attack reportedly caused a power outage in the region.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station’s operation was unaffected by the attack, TASS later reported.
According to a TASS report that did not mention casualties, local officials in the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia city of Kamianka-Dniprovska reported “massive” shelling from Ukrainian forces, which reportedly caused at least six explosions and damaged a hospital.
The brother of Vitaly Milonov, a member of the lower house of parliament in Russia, was killed, according to TASS, after being injured in the Ukrainian Luhansk region by “military action.” When the lawmaker’s brother got hurt, the TASS reports, he was volunteering for the Russian army intelligence.
In recent months, 52, 000 people have been evicted from Ukraine’s Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions in response to fighting, according to Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
Peace talks
Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, “are in the process of setting it up,” according to Trump in a proposed bilateral meeting. Trump made the comment during a radio interview the day after meeting with Zelenskyy and several other European leaders.
Despite the International Criminal Court’s existing arrest warrant, the nation’s foreign minister, Ignazio Cassis, stated that Switzerland would be willing to host Putin for peace talks.
Trump told Fox News that US support for Ukraine might be “by air,” while European nations “are willing to put people on the ground.” He also gave details on how the US might approach security guarantees for Ukraine.
Trump and other White House officials gave no further details, but Karoline Leavitt confirmed that US air support was “an option and a possibility.”
Leavitt stated in a press release that the president has made it clear that US boots will not be deployed in Ukraine, but that we can undoubtedly assist in the coordination and perhaps offer our European allies additional security guarantees.
Security guarantees for Ukraine were discussed by Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Turkish presidency.
Antonio Costa, president of the European Council, stated that future peace negotiations must include Europe and Ukraine in order for it to become a member of the EU.
Seoul/Mokpo, South Korea – Kim Ji-ung felt isolated all the time in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Single and in his early 30s, the salesman spent most of his day at work or holed up in his apartment.
Kim told Al Jazeera, “I pondered about dying while I was driving in the morning.”
“The most difficult thing was that I had no one to talk to. I would be at home playing video games or scrolling through TV channels after work, he said.
Finding it difficult to make connections at work, Kim was feeling increasingly desperate and isolated. Then, a close friend of his passed away at work.
“That’s when I really started to ask myself, ‘ Will I be next? ‘” he stated.
It was then that Kim made one of the toughest decisions of his life – to pack his bags and move away from Seoul, a city of 9.6 million people that offered him the best chance of a career and a stable salary.
Officials in the capital are concerned that the population, which was 10.97 million in 1992, has been declining steadily over the past few decades. The city’s population of those aged 19 to 39 has been on the decline as well, falling from 3.18 million in 2016 to 2.86 million in 2023.
Census data from Seoul reveal that while the city is still popular with its promise of high-paying corporate jobs, its young population has declined. Nearly as many people have moved to Seoul in the past ten years.
‘ Hell Joseon ‘
Despite South Korea’s capital becoming a technological and cultural powerhouse, which international travelers consistently rate as one of the world’s most exciting cities, this trend persists.
Fortune 500 companies such as LG, Hyundai Motors and SK Group employ thousands of young professionals in their headquarters in the bustling downtown. Frieze Seoul, one of the biggest art fairs in the world, is held in Gangnam, and the nation’s cosmetics and beauty industry, pop culture, and cuisine are well-known worldwide.
Seoul’s international allure is also evident in the hip bars, eateries and clubs in the Hongdae and Seongsu neighbourhoods, where foreign tourists flood the streets seven days a week.
However, Seoul’s young adults have called the city’s work-to-survive lifestyle “Hell Joseon” because they are disillusioned by a housing bubble that has made homes unaffordable and a work culture marked by long hours and low pay. The term references the ancient kingdom that was once based where Seoul is today.
According to Yoo Hye-jeong of the think tank Korean Peninsula Population Institute for Future, “Our society is known for its infamous jobs that force employees to work long hours, stymie the careers of women who give birth, and make it difficult for men to apply for paternity leave.”
“Seoul’s abnormally high costs for housing and child education translate to difficulty in creating a stable economic foundation for families”, Yoo said, describing an , incompatibility between work and having a family life in the capital.
Don’t Worry Village, which is set in Mokpo, was founded by David D. Lee, a deserter from Seoul.
‘ Don’t Worry Village ‘
Kim’s decision to leave Seoul was a coincidence, according to Kim, who discovered an online advertisement for a getaway program at Don’t Worry Village.
Located in Mokpo, a city tucked away in the southwestern corner of the country with a population of 210, 000 and an abundance of abandoned buildings, the village got its start from another deserter from Seoul, Hong Dong-joo.
Hong’s path to the upper echelons of South Korean society was a direct result of his high school education in Seoul’s prestigious Daechi-dong neighborhood.
But when he turned 20, he knew that “life in Seoul, working at a high-paying job was not the life I wanted”, the 38-year-old told Al Jazeera. I disliked working in the office for a long period of time each day. And so, when Hong became a mechanical engineering major at a Seoul university, he did the improbable: He moved away from the city.
After setting up a travel agency and meeting hundreds of young adults who had experiences of isolation and difficulties with corporate and social life in Seoul and other places, he came up with the idea to start Don’t Worry Village.
“The blueprint for our village was to make a hometown that would act as a community – something that so many people in our country lack in their lives”, he said.
“In some ways, I was in the business of providing protection to people in our society who needed it.”
Hong Dong-joo says he set up Don’t Worry Village to give young people a sense of community]David D Lee/Al Jazeera]
“National emergency”
Analysts describe the situation for many young people in the country as a “national emergency” that is being largely overlooked.
Our society “oversaw the establishment of a support net for our young population” said Kim Seong-a, a researcher at the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA).
“The side effects of a society going through extreme industrialisation in a very short amount of time was the gradual disappearing roles of families” in the modern lifestyle and work becoming its primary focus, she said.
Her assessment is supported by research conducted for the Pew Research Center in 2021. Participants from 17 advanced economies were asked: “What makes life meaningful”? Families were the most frequently asked questions by people from 14 of the 17 countries, including Japan, the United States, and New Zealand. South Korean respondents, however, chose material wellbeing as their top answer. Family was the third priority for them.
Kim, the KIHASA researcher, said South Korean society now prioritises “money over people”.
She said, “We’ve seen significant increases in the country’s GDP, life expectancy, and other areas that policy changes can improve.” “But social factors like faith in others, trust in society and generosity towards others have relatively been less developed in our country”.
South Korea placed 33rd out of the 38 member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), with a score of 6 4 on a 10-point scale in 2023, in surveys of life satisfaction. It also has the highest number of suicides among OECD countries with a suicide rate of 24.3 per 100, 000 people. Compare that to Lithuania, which had 18.5 per 100,000 people and was a distant second.
In the ensuing years, the South Korean suicide rate has only increased, reaching 28.3 per 100, 000 people in 2024, a 13-year high.
A sizable portion of suicides are committed by young people. Of the 14, 439 cases of suicide reported last year, 13.4 percent of the cases were people in their 30s.
There are many young people in our country who take all the social responsibilities that come with failing to find employment, failing to study, and experiencing family issues, Kim Seong-a said.
“They’re by themselves, so there’s a great chance that they can become isolated. When they go through a setback, they require someone to talk to or ask for assistance. This way, they can deal with it or overcome it”, she said.
However, Seoul’s official statistics indicate that more young people are living alone. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, more than a third of the city’s population lives alone with young people accounting for 64 percent of single-person households, up from 51.3 percent a decade ago.
The Seoul Institute, a top think tank, found that 62.1 percent of respondents to a recent survey of 3, 000 single-person households in the city experienced persistent loneliness. Another 13.6 percent were identified as socially isolated, a term that refers to individuals with no support network during times of emotional distress, physical illness or sudden financial problems.
Seoul Without Loneliness
South Korea’s government is well aware of the issues of social isolation and a punishing work culture in Seoul and has moved to address the issue in recent years.
It launched its “Seoul Without Loneliness” initiative last year, which will invest 451.3 billion won ($322 million) over the course of five years in initiatives like a 24-hour emotional support hotline and community centers called Seoul Maeum Convenience Stores where visitors can request free ramen noodles and drop in for free bowls of ramen noodles.
Authorities in Seoul have also promoted special date nights for singles in the city, and the government has introduced numerous stimulus packages for newlyweds and new parents to address South Korea’s declining birthrate, which is currently ranked the lowest in the world.
Beyond Seoul’s gates, the government is also looking for solutions.
In fact, Don’t Worry Village was one of the first prototypes for inclusive communities outside Seoul that could potentially develop into youth-centred regions that create homes and jobs for young adults while populating rural regions.
Applications to relocate to Mokpo and meet with fellow residents can get financial assistance from the Ministry of Interior and Safety with funding from the Ministry of Interior and Safety.
Kim Ji-ung, the former salesman from Seoul, attended one such workshop in 2018 and then eventually moved there. He claimed that when he did that, how simple social connections were to form afterward surprised him.
“Because the city is quite small, it’s likely that you’ll meet other young people through one way or another”, Kim said. People “tell each other favors, and you can make friends here by simply saying “hi” to them.”
That was such a stark contrast to Seoul, where people do not have time to greet each other and do not want to become involved in other people’s businesses, he said.
Kim continued to work in Mokpo’s various jobs until 2022 when he used his university degree to launch a one-person interior design firm. Hong is his neighbour, and the pair frequently grab lunch together. Kim said that starting to enjoy his free time has been the biggest positive thing he’s experienced in addition to doing what he loves.
“On random nights, I’ll just go down to the ferry terminal and get on a midnight boat to Jeju Island”, he said. “I’ll just stay there for the morning,” he says, “but the little things like this show me that I’m enjoying myself here.”
Looking outside Seoul
Hong’s life has also undergone a significant change.
Back in his days in Seoul, he did not think too much about getting married. But he soon met the woman in Mokpo, who later became his wife. He is now a father as well.
“In Seoul, the individual has to sacrifice so much of their own lives for their companies, to make a living and for the good of society as a whole”, Hong said. I have control over my time in Mokpo, though. I’m able to do what I want for work, and money is not that intimidating to me any more”.
Park Myung-ho and Kim Min-jee, the husband and wife of Kim Min-jee, both resigned from their jobs in Seoul in favor of what they termed a “relaxed life” in Mokpo.
Park, 38, worked for one of South Korea’s biggest arms manufacturers while Kim was an employee at the country’s largest advertising company.
After meeting in Don’t Worry Village, the couple got married.
“There’s just too much competition in Seoul. According to Park, it appeared that only those with large capital could launch a business. “As someone who wanted to start my own business, it was more reasonable to look outside of Seoul”.
Kim runs a guesthouse developed by her husband’s company in downtown Mokpo while Park is now the CEO of a nearby property development company.
Kim, 35, also gave birth to a son more than a year ago whom she did not expect to have so soon.
She said, “I always imagined having children later in my life or having a married life.”
“Working for a major company meant nearly no time at home and weekends spent in the office. Finding affordable housing is even more challenging, she said, and raising children in Seoul is nearly impossible without the assistance of parents or child care providers.
Park Myung-ho, now a father, gave up a lucrative career in Seoul for a more relaxed life in Mokpo]David D Lee/Al Jazeera]
You are essentially judged for everything.
While Don’t Worry Village has become a prototype for more than 50 youth-centred communities around the country that the government has created in recent years, the reality for young adults moving away from Seoul to live in rural regions has proven to be difficult.
Seoul’s workforce, employment, and important infrastructure are still a focus.
And that is why, despite Hong hosting more than 21 workshops for people considering moving to Don’t Worry Village and attracting more than 2, 000 visitors, only 20 people have remained there.
About 900 people ended up moving to the youth villages, according to the Ministry of Interior and Safety, who assisted in the creation of the youth villages.
For many South Korean youth, starting a second chapter in life outside the country has become increasingly popular.
One of the tens of thousands of young adults who submit annual applications for working holiday visas to live and work abroad for a specific period of time is Brianna Lee.
“Life in South Korea is just too intensive”, 30-year-old , Lee , said.
At a certain age, you are expected to work, marry, buy a home, and make money. And you’re judged for literally everything”, she said.
In Ilsan, a city north of Seoul, where people criticize and consider nurses to be socially inferior, Lee said there is widespread discrimination.
“On top of working 11-hour shifts, we would be asked to do tasks that we weren’t required to perform”, she said.
After experiencing burnout, Lee applied for a working holiday in Canada, where she worked in restaurants and spent about a year taking classes at an English-language academy.
Today, she is back home preparing to take a test to become a nurse in the US.
According to Lee, “people in the US respect nurses a lot more and they pay a lot better.”
A senior Israeli official was detained in the United States earlier this month and accused of having sex with a minor before being released on bail without any restrictions or monitoring, allowing him to flee to Israel.
Politicians and social media commentators accuse the government of interfering with the court system, preventing the cybersecurity official from returning home without facing punishment, in the Tom Artiom Alexandrovich case in Nevada, which is currently causing controversy.
The US Department of State was asked to comment on Monday, and it responded by posting on X that any “claims that the US government intervened are false.”
According to court records from Nevada’s Clark County, Alexandrovich was accused of trying to lure a child into sexual activity via the internet, a felony that could lead to a sentence of up to 10 years in jail. He was released on a $10,000 bond, but it appeared that nothing was monitored.
Despite the seriousness of the charges, Richard Davies, a criminal defense attorney in Nevada, described the apparent lack of conditions on Alexandrovich’s release as “fishy.”
“Once he is arrested, he will typically show up in court for the justice of peace within 24 hours.” According to Davies, the justice of the peace in that county would issue bail conditions that, in most cases, would include a GPS device, movement restrictions, and the right to leave the state.
It is therefore highly unusual and suspect that this individual was permitted to leave the country while not wearing an ankle bracelet or a GPS device as well as leave the state.
The current time
Alexandrovich was detained on August 6, but more than a week later, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced an undercover operation “targeting child sex predators,” an incident that was not made public.
In less than two weeks, Alexandrovich was one of the eight suspects that a task force of local and federal agents had taken into custody.
The police said that “this operation was carried out as part of the ongoing efforts to reduce violent crime and protect children in our community.”
Authorities allege that Alexandrovich had sexual relations with an undercover agent who posed as a 15-year-old girl in a police report that was first made available by the Breaking Points podcast.
According to the report, “The sexual contact included taking the decoy to “Cirque du Soleil” and bringing a condom.”
When he arrived to meet the decoy, he was immediately detained.
Alexandrovich claimed in an interview with law enforcement that he believed the person he was talking to was 18 at the time of the interview.
According to the report, he then repeatedly invoked his Israeli flight.
Alexandrovich said it was crucial that he obtain flight information. Alexandrovich stated that he will travel to Israel on Friday (August 8), with a later flight scheduled for [August 8].
The court should have had a second thought about granting Alexandrovich bail without stringent conditions, according to Davies, the lawyer.
The lawyer claimed that the fact that he wants to leave the country should make things worse and make it harder for him to travel.
Trump administration disputes involvement.
August 27 is the day Alexandrovich’s next court appearance is scheduled.
Despite being a flight risk, it is unclear how or why he was freed. The judge in the lower court whose name appears next to the bail determination did not respond to Al Jazeera’s request for comment. The office of the Clark County District Attorney did not.
The State Department’s denial has not completely resolved the conflict. Some people liken Alexandrovich’s release to what they believe is President Donald Trump’s plan to bury the files involving convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to reports on social media.
On Tuesday, Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene raised the issue, drawing a distinction between preventing Palestinian children from entering the US for medical care while freeing Alexandrovich.
She wrote that “both recent State Department decisions involve children.”
“We must be the country that allows war-torn children to undergo life-saving procedures and the country that never releases a foreign child sex predator that our great LEOs [law enforcement officers] caught.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government denied Alexandrovich’s arrest last week, downplaying the incident.
Netanyahu’s office was quoted by Israeli media as saying, “A state employee who traveled to the US for professional matters was questioned by American authorities during his stay.
The employee, who does not possess a diplomatic visa, was not detained and returned to Israel as requested.
Local Democrats are held accountable by the Justice Department
The Justice Department has attempted to shift responsibility for Alexandrovich’s release to the Clark County, local Democratic prosecutor, as the Trump administration is in the spotlight.
Sigal Chattah, the acting US attorney for the District of Nevada, said in a statement that the Clark County District Attorney’s office, not federal authorities, “is handling the prosecution” of the Israeli officials.
A liberal district attorney and state court judge in Nevada failed to require a suspected child molester to surrender his passport, which led to his eviction from our nation, Chattah wrote on social media shortly after that proclamation.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are “outraged” by the incident, she continued.
The state authorities ought to have taken the person’s passport, according to the person who eluded our nation. He must be brought before the justice system, Chattah argued.
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Chattah’s record, who has a history of making racist and dehumanizing posts against Palestinians, has been exposed by the controversy.
Chattah has called for the Palestinians in Gaza to be “off the map,” called for the enclave’s “off the map,” and suggested that “even the children” are “terrorists” on her now-deleted personal X account.
Al Jazeera’s request for comment was not received by the Justice Department or Chattah’s office.
According to Davies, Alexandrovich might still be extradited to the US for trial, but there would need to be political will to do so.
Dates: August 24 through September 7 in Flushing Meadows, New York
Heather Watson was one of four Britons who lost on Tuesday, but top seed Francesca Jones won her opening qualifier, making it the first step toward the US Open main draw.
Viktoria Hruncakova of Slovakia defeated by British number four Jones 6-3, 6-4. On Wednesday, she will face Georgian Ekaterina Gorgodze in the US Open main draw for the first time in her career.
The 86-year-old is the top seed in qualifying because she has never been granted direct entry to a Grand Slam before. She squandered this opportunity.
The 24-year-old scored six aces on her first six assises in a one-hour, 22-minute contest that had an 87% win rate.
As a result of her unsuccessful fourth consecutive year in the main draw, former British number one Watson was defeated by Gorgodze 6-3, 33-6, 4-6.
Romanian Anca Todoni, who is 112 places above her in the rankings, came in second, beating British women’s number seven Harriet Dart (7-5, 7-7) 7-6 (10-6).
Jan Choinski, the fifth-ranked British man, lost to Andrea Collarini of Argentina 7-6 (7-4) 6-4, but Oliver Crawford defeated Australian Alex Bolt 7-56-46-46-4.
George Loffhagen was beaten 4-6 5-7 by Jason Kubler, while 22-year-old Jack Pinnington Jones lost 6-3 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (14-12).
Dan Evans was eliminated, Jodie Burrage, and Jodie Burrage, who won the first Grand Slam championship match since 2018, was eliminated.
On Wednesday, the second qualifying round will feature six Brits:
To be eligible for the tournament’s main singles draw, which begins on Sunday, players must have won three matches in qualifying.
Chris Martin, a singer at Craven Park, mentioned using a ” kiss cam” on the tour after a scandal just weeks ago when Coldplay performed in Hull earlier this week.
Chris Martin spoke about using a ‘kiss cam’ at a recent Coldplay gig(Image: Getty Images)
Coldplay’s Chris Martin has addressed the band’s decision to continue using a ‘kiss cam’ at their concerts following a scandal earlier on their latest tour. He spoke about the situation at the first of their shows in the UK this week.
Last month, there was controversy after two people were seen getting cosy at one of the band’s concert in the US. They were later named as Kristin Cabot and Andy Byron, who are reportedly married but not to each other.
Following the gig in Boston, Massachusetts, Chris, 48, later teased that the ‘kiss cam’ would continue on the Music of the Spheres tour. He’s since spoken about the decision to engage with audiences in that way on the world tour.
As reported by HullLive, he made reference to the scandal at the first of their gigs at Craven Park in Hull on Monday. It’s just one of two European cities, alongside London, that feature on Coldplay’s tour schedule for this year.
He made the reference as he wrestled with the crowd and attempted to read out the raised signs. The phrase “Thank you for letting us visit,” is one that Chris says at one point while he isn’t performing on stage at the time.
He continues, “We’re so happy to be here,” he tells the audience that evening. Additionally, many of you have written signs. So, I’ll take some time to read some warning signs. So we’ll see what happens, then, okay”?
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During a gig in Hull earlier this week, Chris Martin spoke about using a ‘kiss cam’ on his band Coldplay’s latest world tour(Image: Getty Images)
He is heard saying, “First of all,’three times in three months,’ and you were at that Boston gig.” as he tries to read one of the signs. Later, Chris responded, “Well, okay, thank you for coming back after that debacle.”
Later, he later addressed the audience and introduced the ” kiss cam “, according to the outlet. Chris made it known that the band would continue to include the feature at their shows in an effort to engage some audience members.
He claimed that “we’ve been]interrupting television shows for a long time to talk to fans, and it only recently became a… yeah. You have to make lemonade because life throws you lemons, so yeah. We will continue doing it because some of you will be there, so we’ll meet you.
Moments during the ” kiss cam ” at the Boston Gillette Stadium last month went viral on social media. The two audience members were seen on a balcony. Chris addressed the pair, who appeared to be holding hands while swaying to the music. “Oh look at these two”!
They were also spotted reacting to what was being screened on a screen. One of them ducked out of the camera’s view while the other quickly covered their faces before turning their backs on. Chris continued, “Alright. Please, you are all right.
He made an appearance before making fun of their reactions, saying, “Oh what? ” to the audience at the venue during the performance. They may be having an affair or just be very shy. He begins to say, “I’m not quite sure,” as the video ends.
The pair hid from the camera after being initially spotted snuggling up together, and the audience began to laugh. However, after the gig, fans later started to cheer and even whined as Chris made fun of the situation.
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After more than a month of separation and endless rumors, Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet have been spotted together in Budapest.
Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner dispel conflicting rumors with adorable holiday photos
Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet have been spotted together for the first time in over six weeks, finally putting pause on breakup speculation that has surrounded the couple in recent weeks.
The pair were photographed in Budapest, Hungary, where Chalamet is currently filming Dune: Part Three. The actor was “secretly jetting off” with Kylie whenever her schedule permitted, according to reports just days after the reports.
The unexpected reunion took place inside a local café, and it didn’t take long for the employees to share their star-struck moment online. It comes after Kylie Timothee’s ‘distance’ was explained as split rumours continue.
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Staff at the shop called Budapest Baristas posted a group photo with the couple, expressing their shock and excitement in a lighthearted caption: ‘Today Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet just walked into our coffeeshop at Buda.
We struggled to concentrate because we were so confused, but I believe you can see it on our faces. Thanks to God, everyone was staring at them, not us! Thank you for coming by @kyliejenner @tchalamet, they were very kind and accommodating.
Timothée, 29, kept a low profile in the photo by pulling a white T-shirt over his head to hide his new haircut for the Dune movie.
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Kylie has flown to Budapest to be with Timothee(Image: budapestbaristas/Instagram)
He flashed a peace sign to the camera while wearing a dark pair of sunglasses, a Brentwood Country Mart cap, and a gold bracelet. Kylie, 28, also had a casually stylish look, with her long, dark hair down, and a soft makeup look, while layering a white tank over another top.
The couple last saw each other in public on July 5 while they were sailing in St. Tropez.
Both of them had been photographed together since then, and there has been much online speculation about a possible split.
After Kylie celebrated her 28th birthday without Timothée acknowledging her in public, rumors persisted.
Kylie and Timothee have been dating for nearly three years(Image: Getty Images)
Instead of posting a birthday tribute, the Call Me By Your Name star shared a cryptic Instagram Story. The Oscar-nominated actor instead posted an image of boxing legend Muhammad Ali mid-victory and alongside it, he wrote the phrase “Dream Big” in red script.
Fans immediately read into the post, questioning whether it was a subtle message directed at Kylie or simply a teaser for his upcoming film, Marty Supreme, set to release on Christmas Day.
According to IMDb, the movie reportedly tells the tale of Marty Mauser, a “young man with a dream no one respects] who travels to hell and back in search of greatness.”
However, followers feared the relationship had abruptly ended because there was no direct birthday announcement, which the Kardashian-Jenner family is known for.
The couple had sparked split rumours in recent weeks(Image: Getty Images)
Kylie’s family also showed their regular affection for her on her birthday. A carousel of images and Chris Jenner’s heartfelt message accompanied by a moving image.
Kris also wrote, “Happy birthday to my baby girl! You are so intelligent, strong, imaginative, loving, kind, funny, and always supportive… Mommy, you are so beautiful inside and out.
Kendall Jenner also shared fond memories of the two growing up together, writing, “My little lady forever,” which Kylie enthusiastically responded with, “Kendall jenner!!! “!
Since their first romance in April 2023, Kylie and Timothée have remained largely secret.
Kylie recently celebrated her 28th birthday – but Timothee stayed silent(Image: Instagram/ @kyliejenner)
When Beyoncé and Beyoncé were photographed cuddling and kissing during Beyoncé’s Los Angeles Renaissance World Tour in September, their relationship was formally established.
They have chosen to avoid making public statements, allowing for uncommon outings and sporadic paparazzi shots, despite being one of Hollywood’s most-watched couples.
Fans recently discovered a number of esoteric Instagram Stories shared by Kylie, many of which contained lyrics that were interpreted as emotional cues about her relationship status.
Fans couldn’t be more thrilled, though, with Kylie’s recent visit to Budapest indicating that the pair are still very much connected.
