Category: World News

AP-NORC poll: Many support Jackson court confirmation

WASHINGTON — More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided. And a majority of Black Americans — but fewer white and Hispanic Americans — approve of […]

Russia hits rail, fuel facilities in attacks deep in Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia unleashed a string of attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel facilities Monday, striking crucial infrastructure far from the front line of its eastern offensive. Meanwhile, two fires were reported at oil facilities in western Russia, not far from the Ukrainian border. It was not […]

U.S. officials to visit Kyiv amid call for heavy arms, Ukraine says

Summary U.S. has not confirmed visits by Blinken, Austin Orthodox Christians mark Easter in Ukraine amid conflict Ukraine says destruction of churches disrupt celebrations Missiles hit facility in port city of Odesa, Ukraine says KYIV, April 24 – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd […]

In election misinformation fight, ’2020 changed everything’

WASHINGTON — Beth Bowers grew up in the 1960s and 1970s with parents who marched in protests, wrote letters to members of Congress and voted in elections big and small. Her father, a World War II veteran, and her mother, an educational counselor, did not use social media […]

Ukrainian steel plant bombed; Zelenskyy to meet US officials

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces called in airstrikes on a besieged steel factory in the southern city of Mariupol to try to dislodge the last Ukrainian troops holding out in the strategic port, Ukrainian officials said Sunday, while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would meet in Kyiv with […]

India says no pressure from UK’s Johnson over India’s stance on Russia’s invasion

NEW DELHI, April 22 – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson put no pressure on his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi over New Delhi’s position on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when they met on Friday, India’s foreign secretary told reporters. India has not explicitly condemned the invasion by Russia, its […]

Russia investigates media report on presence of British SAS special forces in Ukraine

LONDON, April 23 – Russia’s top state investigative body said on Saturday it was looking into a Russian media report alleging that sabotage experts from Britain’s SAS special forces have been deployed to western Ukraine. The Special Air Service is an elite military force trained to conduct special […]

Ukraine: Russians try to storm Mariupol plant, strike Odesa

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces in Ukraine tried to storm a steel plant housing soldiers and civilians in the southern city of Mariupol on Saturday while attempting to crush the last corner of resistance in a location of high symbolic and strategic value to Moscow, Ukrainian officials said. The reported […]

Russian mercenaries are Putin’s ‘coercive tool’ in Africa

DAKAR, Senegal — When abuses were reported in recent weeks in Mali — fake graves designed to discredit French forces; a massacre of some 300 people, mostly civilians — all evidence pointed to the shadowy mercenaries of Russia’s Wagner Group. Even before these feared professional soldiers joined the […]

Head of nuclear watchdog to visit Ukraine’s Chornobyl next week

ZURICH, April 22 – The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will visit Ukraine’s Chornobyl dormant nuclear plant next week, the nuclear watchdog said on Friday. Rafael Grossi will head an expert mission to step up efforts to help prevent the danger of a nuclear accident […]

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