Hard choices as Ukraine faces worst crisis since war began BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen explains why Ukraine is facing its worst crisis since Russia's invasion ... Ukraine in new deadly strikes. The suspected meteorite was also seen in Portugal ... 05/29/2024 - 9:59 pm | View Link
Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia Avdiivka, which would have been a possible gateway for Ukraine to reach the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk, has been a battlefield town since 2014, when Russian-backed fighters seized large ... 05/16/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Ukraine Faces 'Crucial' Battle for Chasiv Yar This part of the eastern Donetsk region has been a hotspot for fighting since 2014, when Moscow seized Crimea and fomented separatist rebellion in Ukraine. The city has been an important hub for ... 05/7/2024 - 2:36 am | View Link
Russia-Ukraine war: parts of Ukraine without power after Russian strikes, says Ukrainian energy operator – as it happened Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Kherson oblasts. After months of delay, the US House speaker is negotiating with the White House on advancing wartime funding for Ukraine – a package that would ... 04/12/2024 - 2:59 am | View Link
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kremlin responds to claims Russia is targeting Olympics Ukrainian troops have been preparing to fire towards Russian positions on the frontline in the eastern Donetsk region. Donetsk is one of the four provinces Vladimir Putin proclaimed as part of ... 04/1/2024 - 5:25 am | View Link
A person in Mexico died after contracting a strain of bird flu that hasn’t been confirmed in humans before, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
The virus was detected in a 59-year-old who had been hospitalized in Mexico City. The person died one week after developing a fever, shortness of breath and diarrhea.
After six long weeks of voting in the grueling heat, India’s election delivered stunning results.
With all of the 640 million votes now counted, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is poised to preside over a rare, third consecutive term in power—making him only the second Indian prime minister to do so after Congress leader Jawaharlal Nehru in 1962.
CAIRO — United Nations agencies warned Wednesday that over 1 million Palestinians in Gaza could experience the highest level of starvation by the middle of next month if hostilities continue.
The World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization said in a joint report that hunger is worsening because of heavy restrictions on humanitarian access and the collapse of the local food system in the nearly eight-month Israel-Hamas war.
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It says the situation remains dire in northern Gaza, which has been surrounded and largely isolated by Israeli troops for months.
U. S. intelligence officials are issuing a stark warning to America’s former “Top Gun” pilots: Don’t help China.
A new threat bulletin issued Wednesday warns that China’s People’s Liberation Army “continues to target” current and former Western fighter pilots to help teach Chinese pilots how to master one of the hardest maneuvers in aviation: taking off and landing on aircraft carriers.
FLORENCE, Italy — An Italian court reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander on Wednesday, even after she was exonerated in the brutal 2007 murder of her British roommate while the two were exchange students in Italy.
The court found that Knox had wrongly accused an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part time, of the killing.
Hong Kong, the Chinese enclave that’s still struggling to revive its tourism economy post-pandemic and in the wake of a Beijing-influenced crackdown on civil liberties, has taken a new approach to wooing visitors: curbing its residents’ reputation for rudeness.
Earlier this week, the city government launched a new campaign to promote politeness.