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Russia strikes Ukrainian ports, threatens ships, and shakes global grain markets.

MYKOLAIV/NEAR KUPIANSK, Ukraine—An escalation in the Black Sea rattled world grain markets, with Russia launching a third night of air attacks on Ukrainian ports and issuing a threat against Ukraine-bound shipping, to which Kyiv responded in kind.Read More

After a US submarine arrives in South Korea, North Korea launches two missiles.

TOKYO—North Korea launched two ballistic missiles eastward early Wednesday, according to the armies of Japan and South Korea, just hours after a US ballistic missile submarine docked in a South Korean port for the first time in four decades.Read More

As Allies Discuss War Planning, a US Nuclear Missile Submarine Visits South Korea.

SEOUL—A U.S. nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) visited South Korea on Tuesday for the first time since the 1980s, as the allies began discussions to coordinate their reactions in the event of a nuclear war with North Korea.Read More

Officials believe a mysterious object that washed up on the Australian coast might be space junk.

CANBERRA, Australia—Authorities were looking into whether a cylindrical object the size of a compact vehicle that washed up on a remote Australian beach was space trash from a foreign rocket on Tuesday.Read More

After drifting for three months in the Pacific Ocean, an Australian man and his dog were rescued by a Mexican tuna boat.

MANZANILLO, Mexico—An Australian sailor who had been stranded at sea with his dog for three months was rescued in international seas by a Mexican tuna boat, the fishing vessel's owner said Monday.Read More

In retaliation for the Crimea Bridge attack, Russia strikes Ukrainian ports in Odesa.

KYIV—Russia attacked Ukrainian ports on Tuesday, a day after withdrawing from a U.N.-backed pact to allow Kyiv to export grain, and Moscow claimed ground gains in a region where Ukrainian officials believed Russian soldiers were resuming the onslaught.Read More

In Poland, a plane crashes into a hangar, the pilot and four others are killed, while eight more are injured.

WARSAW, Poland—Five people were killed and eight others were injured after a Cessna 208 plane crashed into a hangar at a skydiving center amid terrible weather on Monday, according to officials.Read More

In Cairo, a 5-story apartment building collapses, killing at least 9 people.

CAIRO—A five-story apartment building collapsed Monday in Cairo, Egypt's capital, killing at least nine people, according to officials, who were searching through the ruins.Read More

Rains have caused flash floods and landslides in South Korea, resulting in the removal of nine bodies from a flooded road tunnel.

South Korean rescuers retrieved nine dead from a flooded tunnel where approximately 15 vehicles were stranded in murky water on Sunday, as days of torrential rain caused flash floods and landslides across the country, officials said.Read More

Heavy Rains Kill at Least 31 People in South Korea; Rescuers Search for Missing People

SEOUL—Five bodies were retrieved from a tunnel drowned by strong rains in central South Korea on Sunday, firefighting officials said, bringing the country's death toll from the days of severe rains to 31.Read More


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