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Tornadoes forecast in the Black Sea region as storm reportedly impacts Russian military operations

Nov. 28, 2023 06:04 AM EST

Tornadoes were forecast for the Black Sea region on Tuesday, a day after a storm that left more than 2 million people without electricity in Crimea, Russia and Ukraine. A think tank said that the weather also impacted Russian military operations. The storm killed at least 14 people...

Ukraine has a new way to get its grain to the world despite Russia's threat in the Black Sea

Nov. 27, 2023 21:09 PM EST

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Grain thunders into rail cars and trucks zip around a storage facility in central Ukraine, a place that growing numbers of companies turned to as they struggled to export their food to people facing hunger around the world. Now, more of the grain is getting...

Russian FM says he plans to attend OSCE meeting in North Macedonia

Nov. 27, 2023 17:35 PM EST

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that he plans to travel to North Macedonia later this week to attend a conference, a trip that would mark his first visit to a NATO member country since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine. Russia is one of the 57 members...

Biden says he's helped lower inflation as he hosts first meeting of his new supply chain council

Nov. 27, 2023 17:09 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday opened the first meeting of his supply chain resilience council by warning companies against price gouging and saying that his administration was working to lower costs for U.S. families. “We know that prices are still too high for...

A Dutch museum has sent Crimean treasures to Kyiv after a legal tug-of-war between Russia, Ukraine

Nov. 27, 2023 10:53 AM EST

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Historical treasures that were stored for years at an Amsterdam museum during an ownership dispute sparked by Russia's annexation of Crimea have been safely transported to Ukraine, the museum announced Monday. Their transport ends a nearly decade-long...

President Joe Biden plans to skip U.N. climate talks beginning this week in Dubai

Nov. 27, 2023 10:39 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to skip the annual climate talks in Dubai this week, an event that is expected to draw heads of state and diplomats from roughly 200 nations and the Vatican. He has attended twice before. The White House said it was sending a climate...

Republicans want to pair border security with aid for Ukraine. Here's why that makes a deal so tough

Nov. 26, 2023 17:45 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Congress returns to session this week, lawmakers will be trying to forge an agreement on sending a new round of wartime assistance to Ukraine. But to succeed, they will have to find agreement on an issue that has confounded them for decades. Republicans in both...

Russia says it downed dozens of Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow, following a mass strike on Kyiv

Nov. 26, 2023 15:28 PM EST

Ukraine tried to attack Moscow with dozens of drones, Russian authorities said Sunday, just a day after Ukrainian officials reported that Russia had launched its most intense drone attack on Kyiv since the beginning of its full-scale war in 2022. Russian air defenses brought down at...

Ukraine's military says Russia launched its largest drone attack since the start of the invasion

Nov. 25, 2023 15:40 PM EST

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Saturday morning launched its most intense drone attack on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion in 2022, targeting the Ukrainian capital, military officials said. In total, Russia launched 75 Iranian-made Shahed drones against...

The debate over Ukraine aid was already complicated. Then it became tangled up in US border security

Nov. 25, 2023 11:37 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — As war and winter collide, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledged during a recent visit to Washington that the days ahead “will be tough” as his country battles Russia while U.S. support from Congress hangs in the balance. ...