Month: January 2024

Russian Drones Hit Sites Linked to Ukrainian Nationalists

lviv, ukraine — Russian drones attacked a university and a museum linked to two of the most prominent 20th-century defenders of Ukrainian national identity on Monday, leaving locals vowing to repair the damage. The first smashed windows and much of the roof at the National Agrarian University, outside the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, where Stepan Bandera — a hero in Ukraine but a villain according to the Kremlin —studied. It hit on what would have been Bandera’s 115th birthday. The second ravaged a nearby museum devoted to Roman Shukhevych. Both men were key figures in nationalist resistance to Soviet rule …

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Fifth Suspect Detained With Ties to Cologne Cathedral Threat

BERLIN — German authorities said Monday they detained another suspect in connection with an alleged threat of an attack on the world-famous Cologne Cathedral over the holidays, bringing the overall number of people detained in connection with the alleged plot to five. The latest suspect, a 41-year-old German-Turkish man, was detained Sunday night in the western city of Bochum in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Police detained three people Sunday morning and one man last week. All the detained suspects allegedly belong to a larger Islamic extremist network that included people across Germany and in other European countries, according to Cologne …

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Nearly 30,000 Migrants Crossed Channel to UK Last Year

London — Nearly 30,000 migrants crossed the Channel to Britain from mainland Europe in small boats in 2023, an annual drop of more than a third, government figures released Monday showed. However, the unauthorized arrivals of 29,437 people on the southeast English coast remains the second largest yearly tally since officials began publishing the numbers in 2018. The perilous journeys across one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes have become a huge political problem for the Conservative government, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledging last year to “stop the boats.” One of five key promises he made for 2023, the persistently …

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