Hundreds of the most promising athletes in the country have killed as a result of the war in Ukraine.But that hasn’t stopped Kyiv from sending a 140-member Olympic team to the Paris Games.Others watch and worry from outside their homeland.
Russia has been accused by the US and European countries for months of sabotaging both military and civilian facilities on the continent. In April, London police said that they had charged two British men of providing aid to Russian intelligence in connection with an alleged arson attack on an organization having ties to Ukraine.
Exercises are conducted in the South China Sea by China, Russia, the US, and the Philippines.Taiwan says it will commit to bolstering own defenses. Thailand authorities investigate hotel poisoning deaths. Rare whale washes ashore in New Zealand.
The Russian missile strike on July 8, which resulted in the destruction of Ukraine’s largest children hospital and its school for seriously ill children trying to continue their studies, was also destroyed. Since its opening at the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, the School of Superheroes has expanded to other children’s hospitals throughout the country.
Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital and some residential buildings were damaged by a Russian rocket attack on Monday, July 8.The next day, residents were allowed to briefly go back to collect some personal belongings.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants Russia to participate in talks with Syria on the return of millions of refugees.Erdogan’s call this week for dialogue with Syria follows a spate of protests and rioting by Turks who want their government to stop hosting refugees from Syria’s 13-year-old civil war.
The war in Ukraine promises to have a lasting impact in the role of women in the workplace. Lesia Bakalets travelled to the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine to interview female trainees for the tractor driving training,a job that until recently was the exclusive realm of men.
In an attempt to rebrand, Finland’s Lenin Museum—which its director describes as the “most hated” in the country will close its doors at the end of the year. This move comes as Finland’s historically good relations with Russia are deteriorating
Hundreds of thousands of people, including the residents in Kushuhum in the Zaporizhzhia region, are at risk of losing their water supply after the Kakhovka dam destruction in southern Ukraine one year ago [June 2023].Kushuhum officials say that since the region is again under Ukrainian control, residents are going back to their houses, which is worsening the water problems.
After a four-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, passenger rail service between Russia and North Korea has been restored, with 41 Russian tourists taking the train to North Korea last week, according to Moscow’s customs service.