Author: Cara Anna
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Trump says the US will ‘guide’ stranded ships from the Strait of Hormuz, starting on Monday
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States will launch an effort on Monday to “guide” stranded ships from the Iran-gripped Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump said, giving few details about what could be a sweeping attempt to help hundreds of vessels and some 20,000 seafarers. Iran quickly denounced it as a ceasefire…
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US Vice President JD Vance says talks with Iran ended after 21 hours without reaching agreement
ISLAMABAD (AP) — U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said negotiations ended early Sunday between the United States and Iran without a peace deal after the Iranians refused to accept American terms to not develop a nuclear weapon. The third round of historic, face-to-face talks concluded days after a fragile, two-week ceasefire was announced as the…
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Gaza mediators and others warn Israel of disaster if it launches a ground invasion on crowded Rafah
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Israel’s neighbors and key mediators are warning of disaster and repercussions if its military launches a ground invasion in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah
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‘Seemed like goodbye’: Mariupol defenders make their stand
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LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian fighters in the tunnels underneath Mariupol’s pulverized steel plant held out against Russian troops Thursday in an increasingly desperate and perhaps doomed effort to deny Moscow what would be its biggest success of the war yet: the full capture of the strategic port city. The bloody battle came amid growing…
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Ukraine: Russia using ‘missile terrorism’ in wide attacks
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LVIV, Ukraine • Complaining that the West is “stuffing Ukraine with weapons,” Russia bombarded railroad stations and other supply-line targets across the country, as the European Union moved to further punish Moscow for the war Wednesday by proposing a ban on oil imports. Heavy fighting also raged at the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol that…
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Russia storms Mariupol plant as some evacuees reach safety
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine • Russian forces Tuesday began storming the steel mill containing the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol, Ukrainian defenders said, just as scores of civilians evacuated from the bombed-out plant over the weekend reached relative safety and recounted days and nights filled with dread from constant shelling. Osnat Lubrani, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator…
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Nuclear chief: Russia’s Chernobyl seizure risked accident
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CHERNOBYL, Ukraine • Thirty-six years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday that Russian troops risked causing an accident with their “very, very dangerous” seizure of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. Wearing a blue IAEA jacket and standing under an orange umbrella during rainfall outside…
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Russia’s Chernobyl seizure seen as nuclear risk ‘nightmare’
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CHERNOBYL, Ukraine • Here in the dirt of one of the world’s most radioactive places, Russian soldiers dug trenches. Ukrainian officials worry they were, in effect, digging their own graves. Thousands of tanks and troops rumbled into the forested Chernobyl exclusion zone in the earliest hours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, churning up…
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‘Not my life’: An apartment block reflects the new Ukraine
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LVIV, Ukraine • The Soviet-era apartment blocks at the end of a tram line in this western Ukrainian city show an indifferent face to the world, blank and gray. But behind every lighted window is a story. There is the couple who lament that they may never live in the house being built for them…
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‘It can’t be fixed:’ In shattered Irpin, signs of homecoming
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IRPIN, Ukraine • Pounding sounds came from a sixth-floor window, along with the risk of falling glass. For once, it was not destruction in the Ukrainian town of Irpin, but rebuilding. Heartened by Russia’s withdrawal from the capital region, residents have begun coming home, at least to what’s left. Irpin just weeks ago saw desperate…