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Two people were killed, and many were wounded from Russian airstrikes Sunday, in southern Ukraine’s Kherson province, the region’s governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, reported. Russian forces struck residences in the city of Beryslav, killing a woman and wounding three people, including a police officer, he said. Another airstrike killed a 67-year-old man in the village of […]
SYDNEY — Scorching conditions have come early to parts of Australia, with an extreme fire danger warning issued for Sydney and emergency crews battling blazes across Tasmania and Queensland. A record spell of September heat is baking southern states in temperatures up to 18 degrees Celsius above average. About a dozen towns in the country’s southeast […]
Ukrainian officials said Thursday that Russian forces carried out aerial attacks on multiple cities overnight, killing at least two people. Ukraine’s military described the Russian action as a “massive missile attack on the civilian infrastructure of a number of regions.” Oleksandr Prokudin, the regional governor of Kherson, said a Russian strike hit a residential building, […]
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — The tiny Pacific island nation of Niue has come up with a novel plan to protect its vast and pristine territorial waters — it will get sponsors to pay. Under the plan, which was being launched by Niue’s Prime Minister Dalton Tagelagi on Tuesday in New York, individuals or companies can pay […]
LONDON — Climate change and conflict are hitting efforts to tackle three of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has warned. International initiatives to fight the diseases have largely recovered after being badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Fund’s 2023 results report […]
SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC — The president of the Dominican Republic on Sunday defended his decision to close air, sea and land traffic with neighboring Haiti in their dispute over construction of a canal targeting a river that runs through both countries. President Luis Abinader said in a televised speech that the border closures begun Friday […]
Ukraine said Monday that Russia used 24 drones to attack the Mykolaiv and Odesa regions overnight, in addition to firing 17 cruise missiles at Ukraine. The Ukrainian military said it downed 18 of the Russian drones and all of the missiles. Oleh Kiper, the regional governor of Odesa, said the Izmail district, which is home […]
KYIV, UKRAINE — Two cargo ships arrived at one of Ukraine’s ports over the weekend, using a temporary Black Sea corridor established by Kyiv following Russia’s withdrawal from a wartime agreement designed to ensure safe grain exports from the invaded country’s ports. Two Palau-flagged bulk carriers, Aroyat and Resilient Africa, docked Saturday at the seaport of […]
DERNA, LIBYA — The death toll in Libya’s coastal city of Derna has soared to 11,300 as search efforts continue following a massive flood fed by the breaching of two dams in heavy rains, the Libyan Red Crescent said Thursday. Marie el-Drese, the aid group’s secretary-general, told The Associated Press by phone that a further 10,100 […]
The father of Mahsa Amini was briefly detained on Saturday, human rights groups said, amid a heavy security force presence on the first anniversary of his daughter’s death in Iranian police custody that sparked months of anti-government protests. Amjad Amini was warned against marking the anniversary of his daughter’s death before being released, the Kurdistan […]
