At least three people were killed and 15 wounded Friday in Russian shelling on the Ukrainian towns of Kramatorsk in the east and Zaporizhzhia in the south, according to initial counts by local authorities.
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Volunteer firefighters have been called up from their day jobs all over France this summer to help battle wildfires.
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Russia, trying to pin down Ukraine’s forces to blunt a counteroffensive in Kherson, has been firing shells from near a nuclear plants it occupies.
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Firefighters have been igniting tactical fires in southwest France in a bid to slow the advance of wildfires after a blaze that flared in Gironde on Tuesday grew to threaten an area the size of a small city. Further prevention techniques have seen firefighters monitoring the area from watchtowers for signs of smoke and soaking the […]
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Her radio play, “The Passenger in Cabin 45,” became a novel that was translated into 15 languages, a movie and an acclaimed opera.
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Ukraine needs to show progress on the battlefield. But its army may not be ready
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A ship chartered by the United Nations to transport Ukrainian wheat to countries at risk of famine set sail for East Africa on Sunday. The Brave Commander freighter departed from the Ukrainian port of Yuzhne, east of Odesa, carrying 23,000 metric tons of grain, the Associated Press reported Sunday afternoon, citing regional governor Maksym Marchenko. […]
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As Ukraine’s grain exports slowly restart, as estimated 45 million tons of produce is still sitting in warehouses. Large-scale agricultural producers are at the front of the export queue, leaving thousands of small and medium-scale farmers in a difficult position as they prepare to harvest summer crops in the coming weeks. “Nobody is buying from us at […]
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The European Union is on track for a record wildfire season, the bloc’s fire monitoring service warned. Successive heat waves — part of a warming trend driven by climate change — and persistent lack of rainfall have turned much of Europe into a tinderbox this summer, allowing fires to spread with ease. Flames have ravaged nearly 660,000 […]
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