Russian authorities say a fire at a coal mine in Siberia has killed 11 people and injured more than 40 others By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press November 25, 2021, 11:49 AM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article MOSCOW — A fire at a coal mineContinue Reading
The United Nations’ atomic watchdog says it believes Iran has further increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium in breach of a 2015 accord with world powers By KIYOKO METZLER Associated Press November 17, 2021, 8:04 PM • 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article VIENNA —Continue Reading
GLASGOW, Scotland — The Latest on the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow: GLASGOW, Scotland — U.S. House speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for putting women and girls at the center of efforts to fight climate change, saying they are disproportionately affected by the impacts of a warming planet. Pelosi isContinue Reading
The Guatemalan government has declared a month-long, dawn-to-dusk curfew and banned pubic gatherings in the northern coastal province of Izabal, following two days of protests against a mining project ByThe Associated Press October 25, 2021, 1:51 AM • 1 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article GUATEMALA CITYContinue Reading
BEIJING — Global shoppers face possible shortages of smartphones and other goods ahead of Christmas after power cuts to meet official energy use targets forced Chinese factories to shut down and left some households in the dark. In the northeastern city of Liaoyang, 23 people were hospitalized with gas poisoningContinue Reading
ISTANBUL — Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements Friday with Turkey and the United Nations clearing the way for exporting millions of tons of desperately needed Ukrainian grain — as well as Russian grain and fertilizer — ending a wartime standoff that had threatened food security around the globe. TheContinue Reading
The European Union’s top court has ordered Poland to pay a daily fine of 500,000 euros ($586,000) until it complies with an earlier ruling to shut down a lignite mine near the border with the Czech Republic and Germany ByThe Associated Press September 20, 2021, 4:33 PM • 2 minContinue Reading
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian attacks laid down a curtain of fire Tuesday across areas of eastern Ukraine where pockets of resistance are denying Moscow full military control of the region, almost four months after the Kremlin unleashed an invasion. “Today everything that can burn is on fire,” Serhiy Haidai, theContinue Reading
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said no one knows how long the war in his country will last but that Ukrainian forces are defying expectations by preventing Russian troops from overrunning eastern Ukraine, where the fighting has been fierce for weeks. In his nightly video address, Zelenskyy saidContinue Reading
MOGADISHU, Somalia — It now costs Ayan Hassan Abdirahman twice as much as it did just a few months ago to buy the wheat flour she uses to make breakfast each day for her 11 children in Somalia’s capital. Nearly all the wheat sold in Somalia comes from Ukraine andContinue Reading