STORY: The major attack, more than two years since Russia's full-scale invasion, completely destroyed the Trypilska coal-powered thermal power plant near the capital, a senior official at the company that runs the facility told Reuters.
Videos obtained by Reuters showed the large Soviet-era facility burning and black smoke billowing out of it.
Brawl comes just days before president-elect Lai Ching-te is set to take office
The Associated Press caught a glimpse of the event on Friday, which saw Donald and Melania Trump sitting front row in the audience
The Israeli military announced Saturday that it had recovered the body of a hostage from the Gaza Strip, one day after saying it had retrieved the remains of three others in the besieged territory.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's war machine looks different today than it did at the start of the conflict.
The Israeli military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages killed by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk. A photo of 22-year-old Louk's twisted body in the back of a pickup truck ricocheted around the world and brought to light the scale of the militants’ attack on communities in southern Israel. The military identified the other two bodies as those of a 28-year-old woman, Amit Buskila, and a 56-year-old man, Itzhak Gelerenter.
Valentyn Ogirenko/ReutersUkraine launched a massive drone attack against military and energy facilities in Russia and the occupied peninsula Crimea overnight, with Moscow saying Friday that over 100 unmanned weapons had been involved in the operation.The Russian Defense Ministry claimed its forces had intercepted and destroyed 102 UAVs over four different regions while another six drone boats were taken out in the Black Sea. While the ministry did not reveal the extent of the damage from the att
The phallic decorations delivered an unexpected message that was revealed by the artist behind them.
The Lockheed Martin F-22 is the US Air Force’s best fighter. The Lockheed Martin F-16 is its most numerous fighter. But its workhorse fighter – the type which balances capability and mass – is the Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle, the multi-role version of the classic air-superiority fighter. The Eagle was the best fighter in the world before the F-22 came along.
The Philippines investigates a mayor as it faces increasing sea tensions with China.
A man stormed a police station in Malaysia and killed two police officers early Friday in what’s being investigated as a Jemaah Islamiyah terror attack. Material linked to Jemaah Islamiyah, a shadowy Southeast Asian terror network that is linked to al-Qaida, was found in the attacker's home and five members of his family believed to be JI members were arrested for investigation, national police chief Razarudin Husain said. The attack in Ulu Tiram town in southern Johor state, which is about half an hour drive from the causeway to Singapore, appeared to have been planned, he said.
XThe Biden campaign gleefully turned one of Donald Trump’s favorite digs against him on Saturday, branding the 78-year-old candidate as woefully geriatric in response to his embarrassing stumble at a Minnesota rally on Friday.Video from the event shared by Biden-Harris HQ on X showed Trump grabbing the lectern during his remarks on stage, after nearly toppling the podium over.A feeble Trump nearly falls down on stage after he leans on his podium too hard and then goes on an angry rant calling hi
The "Daily Show" correspondent hit the former president with a blunt reality check.
Defendant’s busy schedule on Friday comes after the judge in his hush money case cleared the decks to allow him to attend son’s high school leavers’ ceremony in Florida
The 156-metre stretch across the Drawa River in western Poland would normally be a perilous scenario for approaching armies.
Gene Rossi and Leslie Ellis join The Lead
Both Republicans and Democrats said on Friday drinking was taking place
Taiwanese lawmakers brawled in parliament amid a dispute about chamber reforms, Reuters reports. Taiwan’s opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), along with the Taiwan People’s Party, wants parliament to have greater scrutiny over the government. However the ruling Democratic Progressive Party have called KMT’s actions “an unconstitutional abuse of power”.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said he laughs at the term “America first,” an increasingly common phrase heard in the Republican Party regarding U.S. foreign policy that he finds “disorienting.” Romney said during an interview with MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle” earlier this week that growing isolationism in the GOP is “unimaginable” considering its…
Frederick Westbrook, a retired Las Vegas hotel worker, voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 — as a vote to get Donald Trump out of office. He now calls that “the biggest mistake of my life.” “As a Black man in America, I felt he was doing unjust things,” he said of Trump. “He’s got a big mouth, he’s not a nice person.” None of that, in his view, has changed. But one thing has. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times “Everything is just about the economy,” said Westbrook, who
With thousands now held without charge, lawyers say Israel is signalling that no detainee is safe
