Ukraine mourns dead from major Russian strike, vows response with underground weapons production
Funeral services were held Saturday for victims of one of the deadliest Russian airstrikes since the war in Ukraine began.
Funeral services were held Saturday for victims of one of the deadliest Russian airstrikes since the war in Ukraine began.
The two NASA astronauts left behind at the International Space Station following the return of Boeing’s troubled capsule are Navy test pilots who have ridden out long missions before.
The U.N. independent investigator on the right to food accused Israel of carrying out a “starvation campaign” against Palestinians during the war in Gaza, an allegation that Israel vehemently denies. In a report this week, investigator Michael Fakhri claimed it began two days after Hamas’ surprise attack on Oct. 7, when Israel’s military offensive in response blocked all food, water, fuel and other supplies into Gaza.
Authorities have not been able to recover the body of a dead man left aboard a sailboat drifting near Hawaii that was the scene of a perilous rescue of a mother and her child by a U.S. Navy destroyer last week.
Agents with NCIS are investigating the death on Sunday of an unidentified Marine’s family member at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Investigators have not released the names of the two individuals.
A Pakistani man was arrested in Canada this week and accused of plotting a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that sparked the latest conflict in the Middle East, federal authorities announced Friday.
The Defense Department is overhauling SkillBridge, its job training program for transitioning service members, with tougher requirements for employers, the creation of a centralized tracking system to measure outcomes and a greater focus on moving participants into full-time work after an internship.
The promise of more lenient license approvals offers an incentive for countries to join the U.S. camp, given American leadership in a range of academic fields and research partnerships.
A U.S. Navy chief who wanted the internet so she and other enlisted personnel could scroll social media, check sports scores and watch movies while deployed had an unauthorized Starlink satellite dish installed on a warship and lied to her commanding officer to keep it secret, according to investigators.
OneWhale, a nonprofit specifically founded to protect Hvaldimir, and NOAH, a Norwegian animal rights group, said this week that they had filed a police report with local law enforcement and the state authorities charged with investigating environmental crimes.
Four men are suspected of the shooting, police said. The men, wearing mostly dark clothing, were spotted running in the area of the shooting.
Several eastern European states continue to receive Russian gas through a pipeline that crosses Ukraine. That agreement ends this year. One alternative that’s been discussed is for European companies to buy fuel from Azerbaijan.
The Honduras-based institution claims its former president sought to downgrade the group’s credit rating after it became clear that he would not have a second term. Much of its capital comes from democratic countries outside the region, including Taiwan and the U.S. The bank has come under scrutiny for its loans to authoritarian countries.
Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case has been postponed until after the November election, granting the former president a hard-won reprieve as he navigates the homestretch of his current campaign and the aftermath of his criminal conviction.
The U.S. secretary of state and the leader of the Dominican Republic held private talks Friday on a range of issues, from human rights, economic prosperity and regional security. However, the crisis in violence-wrecked Haiti dominated the discussions.
Inside Washington’s federal courthouse, there’s no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021. Day after day, judges and jurors silently absorb the chilling sights and sounds from television screens of rioters beating police, shattering windows and hunting for lawmakers as democracy lay under siege.
Thousands of mourners gathered Friday for funeral services in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for victims of a Russian missile attack that killed seven people, including a mother and her three daughters.
The transfer means Egypt will officially become the 23rd nation to join the C-130J’s fleet. Egypt already operates as one of the largest owners of the C-130H craft.
Aysenur Eygi, a 26-year-old American volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, was killed Friday during a protest in the occupied West Bank, the State Department said. Two witnesses said the woman was shot by Israeli forces who opened fire after protesters had dispersed.