Russian oil depot ablaze after suspected Ukrainian drone strike
Suspected Ukrainian military drones have struck an oil storage depot in Russia’s Kursk region, a regional Russian official said Sunday, with video posted online showing a huge blaze lighting up the early morning sky. Three storage tanks caught fire as…
Hungary’s Orban: Russia stands to gain as ‘irrational’ West loses power
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday that Russia’s leadership was “hyper rational” and that Ukraine would never be able to fulfill its hopes of becoming a member of the European Union or NATO. Orban, a…
Russia takes control of Lozuvatske settlement in eastern Ukraine
moscow — Russia’s defense ministry said on Saturday that its forces had taken control of the settlement of Lozuvatske in the Pokrovsk sector of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, site of some of the most heated frontline battles in the 29-month-old war….
Global cruise industry sees growing demand, wary of port protests
MADRID — The global cruise industry expects to carry 10% more passengers by 2028 than the 31.7 million who took cruise holidays in 2023, when the sector surpassed pre-pandemic levels, but sees some routes exposed to protests over overtourism. Long…
Ukrainian adviser says agreement with Russia is ‘deal with the devil’
KYIV, Ukraine — Signing an agreement with Russia to stop the war with Ukraine would amount to signing a deal with the devil, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as pressure mounts on the country to seek…
Astronomers use Webb telescope to discover new planet
A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, to observe a new, Jupiter-like planet outside our solar system – known as an “exoplanet.” It was the first new planet observed and imaged with the telescope that…
Recycled Russian conspiracy theories falsely accuse Ukraine of child organ harvesting
Ukrainian children continue to pay what the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) called “an extraordinary price in lives lost and upended” due to Russia’s invasion. UNICEF said the war has had “a devastating impact on the country’s 7.5…
EU transfers $1.6 billion to Ukraine from frozen Russian assets
The European Union announced Friday that it had made available $1.6 billion to Ukraine – interest generated from $225 billion in immobilized Russian Central Bank assets. The Russian assets, frozen under sanctions levied in retaliation for Moscow’s February 2022 full-scale…
2 years after Ukrainian POW prison attack, survivors and leaked UN analysis point to Russia as culprit
kyiv, ukraine — The former prisoners of war still puzzle over the strange events leading up to the night now seared into their memories, when an explosion ripped through the Russian-controlled Olenivka prison barracks and killed so many comrades two…
Europe tops the charts for alcohol consumption. WHO calls for urgent action to curb the trend
WHO’s Dr Gauden Galea said that the impacts are far-reaching including domestic violence, accidents and mental health issues. He called on countries to implement effective policies to reduce drinking. How much are Europeans drinking? The numbers tell a sobering story:…