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Missile strikes pound Ukraine cities
AFP, Published on 15/11/2022
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - Missile strikes hit cities across Ukraine on Tuesday and prompted mass power outages, a few days after a humiliating Russian retreat in the nation's south and in the middle of the G20 summit.
'No Russians': A taste of freedom in Kherson
AFP, Published on 14/11/2022
» KHERSON, Ukraine: Hugging Ukrainian soldiers, blaring car horns and waving flags -- the people of Kherson are savouring their newfound freedom.
UN unveils global 'early warning' system for disasters at $3 billion
AFP, Published on 08/11/2022
» SHARM EL SHEIKH (EGYPT) - The United Nations on Monday unveiled a five-year plan to build a global early warning system for deadly and costly extreme weather events amplified by climate change.
Ukraine's 58th brigade in the heart of the Bakhmut mire
AFP, Published on 01/11/2022
» BAKHMUT (UKRAINE) - In the east Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the positions held by Russian forces, an artillery unit waits for the signal.
Kyiv residents 'get by' after Russian strikes cut water and power
AFP, Published on 01/11/2022
» KYIV, Ukraine: In a Kyiv park on Monday, over a hundred people queue to fill plastic bottles and canisters with water after Russian missile strikes knocked out large parts of the capital's supply.
Ukraine water, power cuts after 'massive' Russian missile attack
AFP, Published on 31/10/2022
» KYIV, Ukraine: Ukraine suffered sweeping blackouts and water supplies were cut for 80 percent of Kyiv residents on Monday after what Ukrainian officials called another "massive" Russian missile attack on energy facilities.
16 dead, 1m seek shelter as cyclone hits Bangladesh
Published on 25/10/2022
» At least 16 people died after a cyclone slammed into Bangladesh, forcing the evacuation of about a million people from their homes, officials said Tuesday.
Cyclone Sitrang hits Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of people evacuated
AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» PATUAKHALI, Bangladesh: Cyclone Sitrang slammed into densely-populated, low-lying Bangladesh late Monday, killing at least five people as authorities fearing heavy rain and storm surge rushed to move hundreds of thousands out of the system's path.
Drones spark gunfire, fearful cries before exploding in Kyiv
AFP, Published on 17/10/2022
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - Buzzing like a lawn mower, a white arrow darts across the blue sky and drops obliquely toward its target in Ukraine's capital as policemen crouching next to their patrol car open fire.
Disabled dodging bombs in war
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/10/2022
» In her rundown apartment building on the edge of Kharkiv, a city in northeastern Ukraine, Antonina Andriyenko felt the vibrations but couldn't hear the explosions when Russia invaded in late February. She knew something was happening only when her panicked neighbours rushed to leave.