KYIV, Ukraine — Explosions far behind the front lines shook Ukraine on Friday, as a Russian missile demolished part of a hospital complex and apparent Ukrainian strikes hit Russian-occupied cities, in their escalating, long-range aerial war. The attack on a medical center in the central city of Dnipro killed at least two people, left three […]
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Deadly Missile Strike Hits Medical Clinic in Ukraine: Live Updates
A flooded house in Kryvyi Rih last September after Russian forces fired missiles at a dam near the city blowing up one of two floodgates.Credit…Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times POKROVSK, Ukraine — Russian forces have blown up the dam on a river in eastern Ukraine, sending water levels rising in what Ukraine’s military […]
A Once-Promising Green Energy Technology Hits a Roadblock
As part of The Times’s coverage of the global climate summit last year, I wrote an article about a project in Nova Scotia designed to create renewable electricity from the Bay of Fundy’s exceptional tides. Now, a regulatory roadblock means that the pilot project may soon shut down. The Bay of Fundy’s extraordinary tides have […]
Deadly Attack Hits Ukrainian Town After Zelensky Denounces Russia’s ‘Absurd’ Security Council Presidency
Russian forces launched a deadly attack on the town of Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, hours after Ukraine’s leader decried Russia’s assumption of the United Nations Security Council presidency given its ongoing aggression. Six people were killed and eight were wounded when “massive shelling” hit Kostyantynivka, according to Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to […]
Russia Hits Ukraine With New Missile Barrage
KYIV, Ukraine — Moscow unleashed a new missile bombardment on cities across Ukraine before dawn on Thursday, killing a 79-year-old woman and once again targeting critical infrastructure. Russian forces, firing from land, sea and air, launched what the Ukrainian air force put at almost three dozen cruise missiles, as well as repurposed missiles designed to […]
Hurricane Roslyn Hits Mexico as a Category 3 Storm
The storm brought coastal flooding and dangerous winds to cities along the country’s Pacific Coast, killing at least one person.
Russia Hits Ukraine’s Power Infrastructure
Ukrainian officials confirmed missile strikes in at least half a dozen regions, and the country’s state energy company imposed restrictions in several areas.
New Water Cuts Announced as Colorado River Hits Dangerous Low
With water levels in the Colorado River near their lowest point ever, Arizona and Nevada on Tuesday faced new restrictions on the amount of water they can pump out of the river, the most important in the Southwest. And the threat of more cuts looms. This week, those two states along with five others failed […]
Ukraine War News: U.S. Hits Russian Oligarchs and Companies With New Sanctions
New U.S. sanctions target the Russian oligarch Andrey Guryev, whom the Treasury Department identified as the owner of Witanhurst, said to be the second-biggest residential property in London, after Buckingham Palace. Credit…Leon Neal/Getty Images WASHINGTON — The State Department on Tuesday announced a major new round of sanctions on dozens of Russian companies and individuals […]
7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Northern Philippines
MANILA — A strong earthquake struck the northern Philippines on Wednesday morning, killing at least one person, shaking buildings and causing some structures to collapse, officials said. The 7.0 magnitude quake struck at 8:43 a.m. at a depth of 10 kilometers, or six miles, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. The epicenter […]