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Russia unleashed a massive combined attack on Kyiv early Friday, sparking fires and scattering debris across many districts of the capital, mayor Vitali Klitschko said. At least 11 people were injured as emergency crews responded to multiple strikes, he said in a statement. Five people were hospitalised, including one man in critical condition and a…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said four people have died so far in overnight strikes by Russia, with Kyiv the primary target, and dozens more were wounded, including children and a pregnant woman. Zelensky called it a “wicked attack” that comprised around 430 drones and 18 missiles. “This was a deliberately calculated attack aimed at causing…
Almost every district in Kyiv was under “massive” attack Friday morning, the Ukrainian capital’s mayor said, with one death reported and 30 residential buildings damaged across the city. Russia has in recent months intensified its attacks on infrastructure. (Representational Image)(REUTERS) Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, has in recent months intensified…
Oil prices climbed in early Asian trade on Friday as markets responded to renewed attacks by Ukraine against energy infrastructure in Russia. A Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, one of the country’s most important oil export hubs, triggered renewed fears of supply disruptions in what has been a very…
Across the United States, more workers are collapsing from dangerous heat, reported The Washington Post. But now, new research shows exactly what’s happening inside their bodies. In Florida, a team from Emory University asked farmworkers to swallow pill-sized thermometers that tracked their core temperature during long, hot workdays. What they found confirms what workers have…
The first major blast of wintry weather in the U.S. this week brought snow, frigid temperatures and in some places something a little more magical: Frost flowers. Made of thin ribbons of ice that extend out in intricate patterns when frozen water breaks through the slits of certain types of plant stems, the icy blooms…
MOSCOW, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Russia’s FSB security service said on Friday that it had thwarted a Ukrainian plot to assassinate an unnamed top Russian government official and accused Kyiv of planning similar attacks in other parts of the country. The FSB said in a statement that the Ukrainian plot had aimed to kill the…
It took 16-year-old Mounir Abderahmane 11 days to reach the Tine refugee transit camp in Chad, crossing arid plains after fleeing the bloodshed in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher. Children from El-Fasher rest outside their tent at a camp for displaced Sudanese people.(AFP) When the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) entered the city in late October,…
A judge in Idaho ruled that convicted killer Bryan Kohberger must pay for his victims’ urns as part of his restitution, despite Kohberger’s argument against it. Kohberger killed four University of Idaho students– Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves– in their off-campus home on Nov. 13, 2022. Over the summer, he was…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to working with Mexican traffickers to bring drugs into the U.S., officials said Thursday. Diego Bonillo, 30, pleaded guilty in July to multiple charges, including conspiracy to import controlled substances such as…