Month: June 2023

Damage Assessment of Ukraine Dam Disaster Underway

From up close, the catastrophic destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine appears worse than how it’s depicted in news reports and far off satellite imagery, according to U.N. officials who assessed conditions in the area on Friday. “We have been visiting this morning with the authorities the communities, the small villages along the river that have been completely submerged by the flooding,” said Denise Brown, one of several U.N. officials who addressed journalists via satellite from the town of Bilozerka, on the west bank of Dnipro River. “The status situation is dramatic,” said Brown, humanitarian coordinator in Ukraine for …

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Страйк у відповідь: українські аграрії заблокують рух польських вантажівок – організатори

Раніше 9 червня Державна прикордонна служба заявила, що через протест польських фермерів було заблоковано рух вантажівок із України на пункті пропуску «Дорогуськ – Ягодин» …

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Macron Visits Victims of Stabbing that Shocked France

French President Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by his wife, Brigitte, traveled to the French Alps Friday to be with families of the victims stabbed Thursday in a lakeside park in the city of Annecy.  The couple’s first stop was a hospital in the French city of Grenoble, where three of the four young children are receiving treatment.   Government officials said all four children have undergone surgery and are “under constant medical surveillance,” with one child in critical condition.  The fourth child is being treated in Geneva, in Switzerland.   It is not immediately clear whether the president and his wife will go …

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Reporting on Serbian Leader’s Links to Criminal Groups Raises Questions for US

In early May, The New York Times Magazine published an in-depth story about Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic with details about his alleged connections with a criminal group that is being prosecuted for a range of crimes including drug trafficking and murder. The story drew broad attention internationally, not just in the Balkans where local investigative outlets have reported many of the same allegations, which Vucic denies. The State Department declined to comment on the merit of the allegations in the story, however at least one high-ranking State Department official shared the story on social media. And the allegations were raised …

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