After all-night air raid alarms, a weary Kharkiv woke up Saturday morning to a heavy gray sky and the disconcerting news that the Russian Army continued to press its advance on nearby Ukrainian territory. All night, dull explosions from battlefields 40 miles away echoed across Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city. On Saturday morning, a day […]
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KYIV — Russian forces opened a heavy assault on Ukraine’s northeast Kharkiv region, prompting Kyiv to send reinforcements on Friday to defend its border — and territory that had been occupied and liberated — even as Kyiv’s troops are already outnumbered and losing ground across other sections of the front line. Source link
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The new order, which also included areas in northern Gaza, left many confused about where to go to find safety. Source link
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When a news crew’s helicopter swept over the catastrophic floods in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul on Wednesday, it captured a striking image: a horse trapped on a strip of a tin roof, surrounded by the same murky waters that had left entire neighborhoods looking as though they had been swallowed by
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More than two dozen candidates have been killed leading up to the June 2 vote. Hundreds more have dropped out of their races. Source link
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He lay on top of his young sons, trying to shield them with his body, he said. The military had forced them and dozens of other villagers under a baobab tree. Then, he said, the soldiers opened fire. “They shot at us all,” said Daouda, a farmer who had survived for years in jihadist-controlled territory
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The Biden administration’s report that said it is “reasonable to assess” that Israel has violated humanitarian law using American weapons has drawn sharp criticism for not holding Israel sufficiently accountable. The convoluted report said there is insufficient information to draw a firm conclusion in any specific instances, meaning U.S. military aid can continue to flow
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The Biden administration believes that Israel has most likely violated international standards in failing to protect civilians in Gaza but has not found specific instances that would justify the withholding of military aid, the State Department told Congress on Friday. In the administration’s most detailed assessment of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, the State Department said
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Heavy seasonal rains have set off flash floods in a northern province of Afghanistan, killing at least 50 people and leaving many others missing on Friday, The Associated Press reported, citing Taliban officials. The flood’s toll in the province of Baghlan is likely to rise, officials said, according to The A.P., and the flooding also
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For more than half a century, Thailand’s state-owned tobacco monopoly mass-produced cigarettes at a sprawling industrial estate in Bangkok. A steady stream of heavy trucks brought raw tobacco into the heart of the city and hauled millions of cigarettes away. But now, that cancer-inducing complex has given way to something completely different: green space that
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