World Apr 17 Ukrainian forces hold out in key port of Mariupol as Russia calls for surrender The Russian military estimated that about 2,500 Ukrainian fighters holding out at a hulking steel plant with a warren of underground passageways provided the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol.
World Apr 16 Ukraine war far from over as Russia renews strikes in Kyiv Stung by the loss of its Black Sea flagship and indignant over alleged Ukrainian aggression on Russian territory, Russia’s military command had warned a day earlier of renewed missile strikes on Ukraine’s capital. Officials in Moscow said they were targeting…
World Mar 21 They were covering the Russian attack on Mariupol, then these journalists became the hunted A team of Associated Press journalists were documenting the agony of Mariupol from inside the Ukrainian city when they learned their names were on a Russian list.
World Mar 12 Russia strikes near Ukraine’s capital; mosque reported hit Fighting also raged in the outskirts of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and Russia kept up its bombardment of other resisting cities.
World Mar 10 Deadly Russian attack on Ukrainian hospital draws outrage as peace talks stall A Russian airstrike on a Mariupol maternity hospital that killed three people drew outrage, with Ukrainian and Western officials branding it a war crime.
World Mar 03 Europe’s largest nuclear power plant on fire in Ukraine after Russian shelling A spokesman for the Zaporizhzhia plant told Ukrainian television that shells were falling directly on the facility in the city of Enerhodar and had set fire to one of the facility's six reactors.
World Dec 07 After Taliban takeover, desperation drives thousands of Afghans a day across borders Since the Taliban takeover in mid-August, Afghanistan’s economic collapse has accelerated, robbing millions of work and leaving them too poor to feed their families.
World Jan 17 Kremlin critic Navalny detained after landing in Moscow Navalny, who is President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent and determined foe, had spent the previous five months in Germany recovering from a nerve agent attack that he blamed on the Kremlin. Navalny decided to leave Berlin of his own free…
World Dec 07 Tensions as yellow vests join French retirement protests A few thousand yellow vest protesters marched from the Finance Ministry complex on the Seine River through southeast Paris, pushing their year-old demands for economic justice — and adding the retirement reform to their list of grievances. Most marchers were…
World Dec 06 France on strike for a 2nd day, complicating travel Most French trains were at a halt - including Paris subways - and traffic jams multiplied around the country.