Lula militarises Brazil’s main ports, airports amid rising crime
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday temporarily militarised security at some of the country’s most important ports and airports, as he seeks to tame rising crime after several deadly incidents in Rio de Janeiro state. Lula said soldiers will work with federal police officers to manage security operations at Latin […]
Updated: Russia hits Ukrainian port facilities, Kyiv reports front-line progress
Updated: 10:30am (AEST)Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukrainian officials said Russia struck Ukrainian port infrastructure and grain storage facilities on Tuesday, but also reported some progress on the front lines in the three-month old counter-offensive by its forces. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy spoke of “good details” from the front without further explanation and said Ukraine clearly understood where to […]
Russia hits Ukraine’s grain for fourth day, practises seizing ships
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia pounded Ukrainian food export facilities for a fourth day in a row on Friday and practised seizing ships in the Black Sea in an escalation of what Western leaders say is an attempt to wriggle out of sanctions by threatening a global food crisis. The direct attacks on Ukraine’s grain, a key […]
Russia bombs Ukraine ports, threatens ships, as Kyiv deploys cluster munitions
Mykolaiv/Near Kupiansk Ukraine Reuters Russia jolted world grain markets with an escalation in the Black Sea, mounting a third straight night of air strikes on Ukrainian ports and issuing a threat against Ukraine-bound vessels to which Kyiv responded in kind. At least 27 civilians were reported hurt in the air strikes on the ports, which […]
Hundreds of seafarers still stuck in Ukraine despite grains corridor – industry
London, UKReuters Around 82 ships with 418 seafarers remain stuck around Ukrainian ports despite the opening of a UN-backed sea corridor to ship grains with efforts to get the mariners sailing still stuck, shipping industry officials said on Thursday. The agreement reached in July, creating a protected sea transit corridor, was designed to alleviate global […]
Russia abandons Black Sea outpost of Snake Island in victory for Ukraine
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russian forces abandoned the strategic Black Sea outpost of Snake Island on Thursday in a victory for Ukraine that could loosen the grip of Russia’s blockade on Ukrainian ports. Russia said it had decided to withdraw from the outcrop off Ukraine’s south-western coast as a “gesture of goodwill” to show Moscow was not […]
Russia pounds Ukraine’s east as town buries dead in mass grave
Kyiv/Kramatorsk, Ukraine Reuters Russian forces on Wednesday pounded Ukrainian-held twin cities in the Donbas region that is now the focus of the three-month war, threatening to shut off the last main escape route for civilians trapped in the path of their advance. After failing to seize Ukraine’s capital Kyiv or its second city Kharkiv, Russia […]
Ukraine calls for moves to unblock ports and prevent global food crisis
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukraine’s President called on the international community on Monday to take immediate steps to end a Russian blockade of his country’s ports to allow wheat exports and prevent a global food crisis. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made his comments in an online post after speaking to European Council President Charles Michel who was visiting […]
As Ukraine evacuates trapped seafarers, foreign mariners count cost of war
London, UK/Dhaka, Bangladesh Reuters Bangladeshi seafarer Asiful Islam recalls the moment when a missile struck his cargo ship last week off the Ukrainian port of Olvia, killing his crew mate. “I was just 15 feet away when it hit our ship. Our third engineer, Hadisur Rahman, who was killed, was standing just two feet away,” […]