Author: Lori Hinnant
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Russia scrubs Mariupol’s Ukraine identity, builds on death
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KYIV, Ukraine • Throughout Mariupol, Russian workers are tearing down bombed-out buildings at a rate of at least one a day, hauling away shattered bodies with the debris. Russian military convoys are rumbling down the broad avenues of what is swiftly becoming a garrison city, and Russian soldiers, builders, administrators and doctors are replacing the…
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Ukrainians not panicking as West ramps up invasion rhetoric
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AVDIIVKA, Ukraine • In the trenches of eastern Ukraine, across the tense contact lines with Russia-backed separatists, a soldier’s calm verges on numbness after a sniper’s bullet recently killed one of the 50 or so men under his command. It is the sort of thing that has happened from time to time in the eight…
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Paris terror trial opens for 20 accused in 2015 attacks
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PARIS • The trial of 20 men accused in a series of coordinated attacks on Paris in 2015 that spread fear across Europe and transformed France opened Wednesday in a custom-built complex embedded within a 13th-century courthouse. Nine Islamic State group gunmen and suicide bombers struck within minutes of one another at several locations around…
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French prosecutor: Nice killer of 3 got to France from Italy
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NICE, France • A young Tunisian man armed with a knife and carrying a copy of the Quran attacked worshippers in a French church and killed three Thursday, prompting the government to raise its security alert to the maximum level hours before a nationwide coronavirus lockdown. The attack in Mediterranean city of Nice was the…
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U.S. job losses mount as Trump presses plan to reopen business
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WASHINGTON • The ranks of America’s unemployed swelled toward Great Depression-era levels Thursday, and President Donald Trump reacted to the pressure on the economy by outlining a phased approach to reopening parts of the country where the coronavirus is being brought under control. Under the plan, presented by Trump in a call with the nation’s…
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NYC virus deaths exceed 3,200, topping toll for 9/11 attacks
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NEW YORK • New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus rose past 4,000 Tuesday, eclipsing the number killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11. The twin developments came even as the crisis seemed to be easing or at least stabilizing, by some measures, in New York and parts of Europe, though health officials…
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Virus deaths slow in N.Y.; British PM’s condition worsens
NEW YORK • The steep rise in coronavirus deaths appeared to be leveling off Monday in hard-hit New York, echoing a trend underway in Italy and Spain, while the crisis escalated alarmingly in Britain, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care after his condition deteriorated. Johnson, 55, was conscious and did not…
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Massive fire engulfs beloved Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
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PARIS • A massive fire engulfed the upper reaches of Paris’ soaring Notre Dame Cathedral as it was undergoing renovations Monday, threatening one of the greatest architectural treasures of the Western world as tourists and Parisians looked on aghast from the streets below. The blaze collapsed the cathedral’s spire and spread to one of its…
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Fire ravages soaring Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris left aghast
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PARIS (AP) — A fire swept across the top of the Notre Dame Cathedral while the soaring Paris landmark was under renovations Monday, collapsing its spire and threatening one of the world’s greatest architectural treasures as locals and tourists watched aghast from the streets. The French president pledged to rebuild a cathedral that he called…
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Strasbourg suspect: From young criminal to fugitive attacker
STRASBOURG, France — Cherif Chekatt’s criminal career began at age 10. By age 13 he had been convicted. Now, with his third decade still incomplete, he is a fugitive, accused in the deadly shooting at France’s most famous Christmas market. The 29-year-old has more than two dozen convictions, mostly in France but also in Switzerland…