Author: Vanessa Gera
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Pentagon says Poland’s jet offer for Ukraine ‘not tenable’
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WARSAW, Poland • The Pentagon said Tuesday that Poland’s offer to give its MiG-29 fighter jets to the U.S. so they can be passed to Ukraine raises serious concerns for the NATO alliance and the plan is not “a tenable one.” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in a statement that the prospect of jets…
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In just a week, Ukrainian refugee exodus exceeds 1 million
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PRZEMYSL, Poland • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced more than a million people to flee the war in just a week, an exodus so swift it almost matches the number of people who sought refuge in Europe in a whole year during the 2015 migration crisis. Seven years ago, hundreds of thousands of Syrians…
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Italy investigates quake buildings, checking for code fraud
AMATRICE, Italy — Italian authorities are vowing to investigate whether negligence or fraud in adhering to building codes played a role in the high death toll in last week’s earthquake in Italy. They also called for efforts to ensure organized crime doesn’t infiltrate lucrative construction contracts to eventually rebuild much of the picturesque towns leveled…
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Italy buries quake dead, recalls sisters embracing in rubble
ASCOLI PICENO, Italy — A young man wept over a little girl’s white coffin, while a woman nearby gently stroked another small casket, as Italians bid farewell Saturday to victims of the devastating earthquake that struck a mountainous region of central Italy this week. As Italians observed a day of national mourning, President Sergio Mattarella…
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Treasure hunters unveil plan to find Nazi gold train
WARSAW, Poland — Explorers in Poland began digging Tuesday for a legendary Nazi train said to be laden with treasure and armaments. They’re not dissuaded by decades of fruitless searches, a scientific determination that no train is there and warnings by historians that such a train might not even exist. The search in southwestern Poland…
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U.S. deploys missiles to Poland to train NATO ally
WARSAW, Poland — Dozens of American soldiers and a battery of Patriot missiles have arrived in Poland, where they will spend the next two years teaching the Polish military to operate the advanced guided missile system at a base just a few miles (kilometers) from the Russian border. The mission amounts to the most significant…