Author: Frank Jordans
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U.S., Germany sending battle tanks to aid Ukraine war effort
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BERLIN • Germany and the United States announced Wednesday that they will send battle tanks to Ukraine, the first stage of a coordinated effort by the West to provide dozens of the heavy weapons to help Kyiv break combat stalemates as Russia’s invasion enters its 12th month. American President Joe Biden said the U.S. will…
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U.S. and Germany agree to supply advanced weapons to Ukraine
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KYIV, Ukraine • The U.S. and Germany pledged Wednesday to equip Ukraine with some of the advanced weapons it has long desired for shooting down aircraft and knocking out artillery, as Russian forces closed in on capturing a key city in the east. Germany said it will supply Ukraine with up-to-date anti-aircraft missiles and radar…
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Biden issues new warning to Russia over invading Ukraine
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GENEVA • President Joe Biden said Thursday that Russian troop movements across Ukraine’s border would constitute an invasion and that Moscow would “pay a heavy price” for such an action. It was the latest White House effort to clear up comments Biden made a day earlier when he suggested that a “minor incursion” by Russia…
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Summit: Countries pledge to cut heavily polluting coal
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GLASGOW, Scotland • In the fight to curb climate change, several major coal-using nations announced steps Thursday to wean themselves — at times slowly — off of the heavily polluting fossil fuel. The pledges to phase out coal come on top of other promises made at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, that the…
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Europe and U.S. facing new round of shutdowns amid virus surge
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new york • Germany on Wednesday moved to shut down restaurants, bars and theaters all over again and France weighed demands for another nationwide lockdown as a new wave of coronavirus infections in Europe and the U.S. wipes out months of progress against the scourge on two continents. The resurgence and the growing clampdown sent…
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Nations at climate talks back universal emissions rules
KATOWICE, Poland — Nearly 200 countries at the U.N. climate talks have agreed upon universal, transparent rules on how nations can cut greenhouse gas emissions and curb global warming, putting the principles of the 2015 Paris climate accord into action. But to the frustration of environmentalists and a group of countries who were urging more…
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Neo-Nazi trial puts spotlight on fate of migrants in Germany
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save MUNICH — A German court found the main defendant guilty on Wednesday in a string of neo-Nazi killings more than a decade ago — a high-profile trial that raised fresh questions about the treatment of migrants at a time when Germany is grappling with an…
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Protests, new climate pledges after Trump’s Paris pullout
BRUSSELS — Environmental campaigners staged protests Friday against President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, while other nations pledged to double down on their efforts to curb global warming in response to the U.S. move. In Berlin, Greenpeace activists projected Trump’s silhouette onto the side of the…
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Victims of the bombing: Parents, children, policewoman
LONDON — The bombing at a Manchester concert on Monday night claimed the lives of 22 people, many of them teenagers and their parents. Here what’s known about them so far: ___ Chloe Rutherford, 17, and her boyfriend Liam Curry, 19, were described as a perfect couple who “wanted to be together forever” — and…
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Famed Swiss climber killed near Mount Everest in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A Swiss climber acclaimed for his rapid ascents — including scaling dozens of peaks in the Alps in a little more than two months — was killed Sunday in a mountaineering accident near Mount Everest in Nepal, expedition organizers said. Ueli Steck was killed at Camp 1 of Mount Nuptse, Mingma Sherpa…