Two Russian warships were damaged after Ukraine launched an extensive assault on a Russian ship repair base in Crimea early Wednesday morning. It appears to be Kyiv’s most ambitious strike on the port since the war began.
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Death toll from Hurricane Helene rises to over 100
The magnitude of devastation wrought by Helene intensifies by the hour as search crews discover more bodies and floodwaters slowly recede – revealing more neighborhoods obliterated by the storm. The death toll across six states soared to 128 Monday, days after Helene made landfall in Florida as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane.
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Antony Blinken met Wang Yi
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi on Saturday, in the first face-to-face between senior US and Chinese officials since the US military shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon earlier this month. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said In a meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Blinken directly spoke to the unacceptable violation of US sovereignty and international law and said incidents like the surveillance balloon, which hovered over US airspace for days before the US shot it down off the coast of South Carolina, must never occur again.
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6 workers presumed dead after Baltimore bridge collapse
A cargo ship lost power and rammed into a major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, destroying the span in a matter of seconds and plunging it into the river in a terrifying collapse that could disrupt a vital shipping port for months. Six people were missing and presumed dead, and the search for them was suspended until Wednesday morning.
