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Russia strikes Ukrainian ports, threatens ships, and shakes global grain markets. |
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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 |
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After a US submarine arrives in South Korea, North Korea launches two missiles. |
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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 |
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As Allies Discuss War Planning, a US Nuclear Missile Submarine Visits South Korea. |
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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 |
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Officials believe a mysterious object that washed up on the Australian coast might be space junk. |
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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 |
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After drifting for three months in the Pacific Ocean, an Australian man and his dog were rescued by a Mexican tuna boat. |
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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 |
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In retaliation for the Crimea Bridge attack, Russia strikes Ukrainian ports in Odesa. |
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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 |
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In Poland, a plane crashes into a hangar, the pilot and four others are killed, while eight more are injured. |
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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 |
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In Cairo, a 5-story apartment building collapses, killing at least 9 people. |
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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 |
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Rains have caused flash floods and landslides in South Korea, resulting in the removal of nine bodies from a flooded road tunnel. |
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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 |
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Heavy Rains Kill at Least 31 People in South Korea; Rescuers Search for Missing People |
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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 |
