Turkey completes new homes in area hit by devastating earthquake
Ankara, Turkey Reuters Turkey on Saturday handed over keys to newly-completed homes to some of those left homeless after last year’s devastating earthquake, one year after the country’s deadliest disaster in its modern history. Powerful quakes on 6th February, 2023 in southern Turkey killed more than 50,000 people in 11 provinces and left millions homeless. […]
The week the Ukraine war hit home in a Russian border city
Reuters Air raid sirens blare, and people take cover in basements. Hundreds are evacuated from their homes while experts defuse unexploded bombs. Well-wishers place heaps of flowers, toys and sweets to share their grief over the deaths of children. Scenes long familiar to Ukrainians from 22 months of war are now playing out in one […]
Death toll from Russian missile strike in eastern Donetsk rises to nine with 82 injured; hotel, apartments destroyed
Pokrovsk, UkraneReuters Russian missiles struck the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk twice on Monday night, killing nine people, wounding scores and destroying apartments and a popular hotel, officials said. Rescuers work at a site of a building destroyed during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine on 8th […]
Updated: Eight dead in Sloviansk strike as Ukrainians said to pull back in Bakhmut
Updated: 10:50am (AEST)Sloviansk, Ukraine Reuters A Russian missile strike killed eight people in eastern Ukraine on Friday as a British assessment said Ukrainian troops had been forced to withdraw from parts of the city of Bakhmut, the focus of Moscow’s slow advance through the region. Ukrainian troops have been doggedly defending Bakhmut, shattered after months […]
Life and death in shattered Mariupol – a survivor’s tale of war in Ukraine
Mariupol, Russian-controlled Ukraine Reuters Shells were exploding nearby but Tatiana Bushlanova didn’t flinch when she spoke to Reuters in front of the shattered remains of her home in Mariupol last May. Fighting in the port city has long since ended but the pensioner is still struggling to take in the enormity of what has happened. […]
Death and devastation as Russian rockets hit Ukraine apartment block – local officials
Chasiv Yar/Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters At least 15 people were killed and two dozen more are feared trapped after Russian Uragan rockets hit a five-storey apartment block in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, local officials said on Sunday as rescuers picked their way through rubble. Ukraine also reported clashes with Russian troops on fronts in the east and […]
Churches open doors – and hearts – after London apartment tower engulfed in fire
Churches in London’s west have opened their doors to residents of an apartment tower which was completely engulfed in a fire early on Wednesday morning, leaving at least 12 dead and scores of injured. The 24 storey Grenfell Tower on Latimer Road in north Kensington was completely engulfed by a fire which reportedly broke out […]