Category: World

(BBC): Rescuers have found no survivors so far from a jet carrying 132 people which crashed in hills in southern China. Crash investigators also had no information on why China Eastern flight MU5735 plummeted out of the sky on Monday. Recovery work at the site of the Boeing 737-800 crash in Guangxi province is being… Continue reading China Eastern plane crash rescuers find no survivors

BEIJING (AP): A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country’s worst air disaster in nearly a decade. More than seven hours after communication was lost with the plane, there… Continue reading Chinese airliner crashes with 132 aboard in country’s south

LVIV, Ukraine (AP): Ukrainian officials defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in Mariupol lay down their arms and raise white flags Monday in exchange for safe passage out of the besieged port city. As Russia intensified its effort to pound Mariupol into submission, its ground offensive in other parts of Ukraine has become… Continue reading Ukraine rejects Russian demand for surrender in Mariupol

LVIV, Ukraine (AP): Ukraine’s president said Russia is trying to starve his country’s cities into submission but warned Saturday that continuing the invasion would exact a toll on Russia for “generations.” The remarks came after Moscow held a mass rally in support of its bogged-down forces. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the Kremlin in an… Continue reading Ukraine’s leader warns war will cost Russia for generations

(BBC): Russian missiles have hit an aircraft repair plant near Lviv in western Ukraine, a city that has become a safe haven for people fleeing the war. Emergency vehicles raced to the site of the strike, just 6km (four miles) from the city centre, after three loud explosions were heard early on Friday. No-one was… Continue reading Russia destroys aircraft repair plant near western city of Lviv

TOKYO (AP): A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday evening, triggering a tsunami advisory. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake struck 60 kilometers (36 miles) below the sea. The region is part of northern Japan that was devastated by a deadly 9.0 quake and tsunami… Continue reading 7.3 magnitude quake hits north Japan, tsunami alert issued

WASHINGTON (AP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy summoned the memory of Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on Wednesday as he appealed to the U.S. Congress to do more to help Ukraine’s fight against Russia. But he acknowledged the no-fly zone he has sought to “close the sky”to the Russians over his country… Continue reading Zelenskyy pleads to US Congress: ‘We need you right now’

KYIV, Ukraine (AP): Russia stepped up its bombardment of Kyiv on Tuesday, smashing apartments and a subway station, while civilians in 2,000 cars fled Mariupol along a humanitarian corridor in what was believed to be the biggest evacuation yet from the desperately besieged seaport. On the diplomatic front, another round of talks began between Russia… Continue reading Russia steps up bombardment of Kyiv, civilians flee Mariupol

(CNN): Former President Barack Obama announced Sunday that he has tested positive for Covid-19. “I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise,” he said on his official Twitter account. Obama also said that his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, has tested negative. “Michelle and I are grateful to… Continue reading Former President Barack Obama tests positive for Covid-19

(BBC): Fresh attempts to evacuate civilians from cities under siege in Ukraine are being complicated by constant Russian shelling, Ukrainian officials say. Humanitarian corridors are being set up from Mariupol, Sumy and towns and villages outside the capital Kyiv. The situation in Mariupol is particularly desperate after two weeks of bombardment, the UN says, with… Continue reading Ukraine war: Evacuations ‘extremely difficult’ amid shelling