LAST UPDATE: 09:19 At least 14 people were killed when a missile fired from a Russian “strategic bomber” hit a nine-story apartment building in the early hours of the morning on the outskirts of Odessa, the major port of southern Ukraine, authorities said. So far, “we have 14 dead and 30 injured, including three children,” […]
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Ukraine: At least 17 dead from Russian missile attacks in Odessa
LAST UPDATE: 10:18 At least 17 people were killed when Russian missiles hit buildings in the Odesa region of southern Ukraine, according to Kyiv. A missile fired by a Russian “strategic bomber” hit a nine-story apartment building in the early hours of the morning, and the official toll so far is “14 dead and 30 […]
Ukrainian military: ‘Russia more than doubled attacks using Soviet missiles’
Russia is using non-precision missiles from its old Soviet stockpile for more than 50 percent of its attacks in Ukraine, and the rate of hits has more than doubled in the past two weeks, a brigadier general in Ukraine’s armed forces said on Thursday. Russian missiles have struck a series of targets in Ukraine in […]
USA: Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes first African-American Supreme Court justice
Progressive Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson today became the first African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court, without changing the balance of the conservative-majority body. The 51-year-old judge was selected in late February by President Joe Biden, who had made a campaign promise to appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court for the first […]
US: Supreme Court vindicates Biden for overturning Trump’s immigration policy
The US Supreme Court today ruled in favor of President Joe Biden, who had overturned his predecessor Donald Trump’s controversial immigration executive order that would have required asylum seekers apprehended at the southern border to be sent back to Mexico and have to they wait there until the examination of their case is completed. By […]
Ukraine: ‘Extremely difficult’ situation in Lisitsansk
The situation in Lisitsansk, in eastern Ukraine, is “extremely difficult” as “very heavy” shelling continues, making it impossible to evacuate civilians, the regional governor announced. “There is a lot of shelling, from many directions. The Russian army is approaching Lisitsansk from different directions,” Serhi Gaidai said in a video posted on Telegram. The governor said […]
US: Supreme Court strips EPA of power to regulate emissions
The US Supreme Court has imposed limits on the federal government’s ability to implement sweeping regulations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, a decision that could undermine US President Joe Biden’s plans to tackle of climate change. The court, by a 6-3 vote, limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse […]