Russian forces have taken four border villages in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, a local official said Tuesday, days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had ordered troops to establish a buffer zone along the border. Sumy borders Russia’s Kursk region, where a surprise Ukrainian incursion last year captured a pocket of land in the first occupation of Russian territory since World War II. The long border is vulnerable to Ukrainian incursions, Putin said, and creating a buffer zone could help Russia prevent further cross-border attacks there. Meanwhile, a Russian bombing campaign that had escalated in recent days slowed overnight, with far fewer Russian...
Five Dead And Six Missing After Explosion At Chinese Chemical Plant
Six people remained missing and search and rescue efforts continued Wednesday morning after an explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China shook nearby buildings, killing at least five people and injuring 19. The blast on Tuesday, occurring in an industrial park in the city of Weifang, in Shandong province, knocked out windows in nearby buildings and spewed a thick plume of white smoke, according to videos shared on social media. It was not immediately clear what had caused the explosion, which occurred at a plant owned by Gaomi Youdao Chemical Co., a producer of pesticides and chemicals for medical use with...
SpaceX’s Starship Launches Falcon 9 Satellites To Orbit From California, Explodes Few Minutes After
“Starship’s ninth flight test marked a major milestone for reuse with the first flight-proven Super Heavy booster launching from Starbase, and once more returned Starship to space”— SpaceX SpaceX’s prototype Starship (IFT-9) exploded over the Indian Ocean, capping another bumpy test flight for the rocket. The biggest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built lifted off from the company’s Starbase facility, near a southern Texas village named Starbase.
Gaza Shows Desperation As People Dig Through Trash For Bits Of Food
With flies buzzing all around them, the woman and her daughter picked through the pile of garbage bags for scraps of food at the foot of a destroyed building in Gaza City. She found a small pile of cooked rice, a few scraps of bread, a box with some smears of white cheese still inside. Islam Abu Taeima picked soggy bits from a piece of bread and put the dry part in her sack. She will take what she found back to the school where she and hundreds of other families live, boil it and serve it to her five...
Former Olympic Gymnast Mary Lou Retton Charged With DUI In West Virginia
Former gymnast Mary Lou Retton was charged with driving under the influence in West Virginia this month, according to court records. Retton, the legendary Olympic gymnast, was arrested May 17, according to the records, filed in Marion County Magistrate Court. It was not clear what happened. The Fairmont Police Department and the Marion County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Retton, 57, posted a $1,500 bond, according to online records. A representative for Retton did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Retton became the first American woman to win an Olympic individual all-around gold...
UN Official Says 47 Were Wounded, Mostly By Gunfire, When Crowd Overran Aid Hub In Gaza
At least 47 Palestinians were wounded, mostly by gunfire, when a crowd overran a new Gaza aid hub set up by a U.S. and Israeli-backed foundation, a U.N. official said Wednesday. Ajith Sunghay, head of the U.N. Human Rights Office for the Palestinian territories, told reporters in Geneva that it appeared Israeli army fire had caused most of the injuries. On Tuesday, crowds of Palestinians broke through fences and an Associated Press journalist heard Israeli tank and gun fire, and saw a military helicopter firing flares. The distribution hub outside Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah was opened the day before by the...
Manhunt Launched For Ex-Police Chief Known As ‘Devil In The Ozarks’ After His Escape From Prison
As law officers search Arkansas’ rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison this weekend by impersonating a guard and walking out through a gate a guard opened for him, the sister of one of his victims is on edge. Grant Hardin, the former police chief in the small town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape and became known as the “Devil in the Ozarks.” Hardin escaped Sunday from the North Central Unit — a medium-security prison also known as the Calico Rock prison — by impersonating a...
RE: 2027 NEWS UPDATE FROM NASARAWA STATE ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMUNITY, TO HIS EXCELLENCY,
RE: 2027 NEWS UPDATE FROM NASARAWA STATE ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMUNITY, TO HIS EXCELLENCY,Governor A.A SUle, urgently urging him to Ban All Looters from Contesting in All Accredited Political Offices in the State, citing most of them as a disgrace to democratic values and unethically opposed to the norms of civilized Practices in the society.In this obvious circumstances, he has been requested to kindly advise and direct INEC, plus all Security Observers , as well as the General Public to submit or present the names and secret identity of such notorious characters, who have been consistently irresponsible and consipitorially responsible for Nigeria’s...