A train crash in eastern India on Friday was the country’s worst rail disaster in two decades, killing more than 280 people and renewing questions about rail safety in a country that has invested heavily in the system in recent years after a long history of deadly crashes. Two passenger trains collided around 7 p.m. […]
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Russia-Ukraine War: Live Updates – The New York Times
President Emmanuel Macron and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Bulboaca, Moldova, on Thursday.Credit…Ludovic Marin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Thursday that a gathering of European leaders in Moldova showed Europe’s unity in supporting Ukraine and in standing up to Russian aggression, but he reiterated France’s position that full-fledged […]
Russia’s War in Ukraine: Live Updates
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, in Bujumbura, Burundi, on Tuesday.Credit…Tchandrou Nitanga/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, has arrived in Cape Town amid a diplomatic storm over whether South Africa will honor an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Mr. Putin is expected […]
Russian Officials Accuse West of Tacit Support for Moscow Drone Attack: Live Updates
Tuesday’s drone strike on Moscow further demonstrated the spread of the war in Ukraine to the Russian capital, putting a spotlight on the city’s air defenses and the Kremlin’s attempts to adapt to a new kind of conflict. Since the 1980s, Moscow has been ringed by a complex air defense system known as Amur, which […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
KYIV, Ukraine — Frightened pedestrians hurried to get off the streets of Ukraine’s capital and into underground shelters on Monday morning as Russian forces launched a rare daytime missile attack on Kyiv. Air-raid alarms sounded shortly after 11 a.m. local time, sending parents racing to get their children to safety and hospital workers to take […]
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 […]
Ukraine Live Updates: Wagner’s Withdrawal From Bakhmut Would Present Test to Russian Army
As Russia vowed to respond “extremely harshly” to a rare, two-day border incursion by pro-Ukrainian fighters, the leader of Russia’s largest mercenary force warned that it faced further setbacks unless its ruling elite took drastic, and likely unpopular, measures to win the war. “The most likely scenario for us in a special operation would not […]
Mawar Becomes a Super Typhoon After Lashing Guam: Latest Storm Updates
Guam residents woke up Thursday to survey the damage after a long night of whipping winds and lightning storms from Mawar, a typhoon that downed coconut and mango trees and knocked out power across much of the U.S. Pacific territory. Residents lined up outside the shops that were open to buy food and supplies. Many […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
As attacks by Ukrainian-aligned insurgents in Russian territory stretched into a third day on Wednesday, concerns were rising in Russia that the rare border incursion could create new battlefield problems — and it has increased calls for the military to expend more resources defending against such assaults. A group composed of anti-Kremlin Russian fighters, the […]
Russia Blames ‘Ukrainian Militants’ for Assault Across Belgorod Region: Live Updates
MOSCOW — Meeting behind closed doors, a Moscow court on Tuesday extended the arrest of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal correspondent accused of espionage, for more than three months, until Aug. 30. The refusal of bail and the extension of Mr. Gershkovich’s detention were widely expected, although Russia has presented no evidence to back […]