Russia sets Ukrainian nuclear power plant on fire
KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today that Russia has started a fire on the grounds of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest such facility in Europe. It…
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Successful Ukrainian incursion highlights Russia’s border weakness
MOSCOW — Russia was fighting intense battles on Saturday against thousands of Ukrainian troops as deep as 12 miles (20 km) inside the Kursk region after Ukraine's biggest attack on…
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Coast Guard works to change its culture following sexual abuse, harassment scandal
NEW LONDON, Connecticut (AP) — The grueling basic training for fledgling cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, known as swab summer, has been revamped this year in light of…
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Russia offers little resistance to Ukrainian troops after shock incursion
MOSCOW — Russian forces were battling Ukrainian troops for a third day today after they smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region, an audacious attack on the world's…
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American missionary in Haiti: ‘I feel like a sitting duck ready to be shot’
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Private security guards watch the premises and a 12-foot wall protects the sprawling solar-powered Miracle Village in Fond-Parisien, where a self-defense citizens’ brigade patrols the town’s blocked and…
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A rocket attack at an Iraqi military base injures US personnel, officials tell AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Several U.S. personnel were injured in a suspected rocket attack at a military base in Iraq, U.S. defense officials said Monday, in what has been a recent…
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Defense secretary revokes plea deal with accused 9/11 plotters
WASHINGTON — In a startling reversal of a decision made just 48 hours earlier, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked plea deals reached with three accused plotters of the September 11,…
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About half of US state AGs went on France trip sponsored by group with lobbyist and corporate funds
PARIS (AP) — About half the U.S. state attorneys general traveled to France in a trip cosponsored by a group mostly funded by companies, including some under scrutiny of the top state…
US arrests a former Green Beret over the failed 2020 raid into Venezuela to remove Maduro
CARACAS (AP) — A former U.S. Green Beret who in 2020 organized a failed cross-border raid of Venezuelan army deserters to remove President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested in New York on…
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the main plotter of 9/11 attacks, agrees to plead guilty
HAVANA (AP) — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the mastermind of al-Qaida’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, has agreed to plead guilty, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The development…