Nepal CNN — A US climber has died on his way to scale Mount Everest on Monday, according to an expedition organizer. “Jonathan Sugarman died at Camp 2 after he began to feel unwell,” Pasang Sherpa told CNN on Tuesday. Seattle-based Sugarman was part of an expedition arranged by Washington state-based International Mountain Guides (IMG) with Beyul Adventure handling the local logistics. Sherpa added that “his body remains at Camp 2 with the rest of the climbing team.” This comes after Nepal has issued permits for a record 463 climbers by April 26, for this spring season’s expeditions to Mount…
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Dnipro, Ukraine CNN — For days now, the blasts have echoed the condition each country’s military is in. Ukraine is apparently striking at fuel depots in Russian-occupied areas and inside Russia itself – seemingly precise attacks but ones to which Kyiv is making no overt claim. Russia has been lashing out at what often seem to be civilian targets in Ukraine, either in rage or through ineptitude. In Uman, more than 20 people died; in Pavlohrad, there were two dead and many injured. In Kherson on Wednesday, three were killed when a crowded hypermarket was hit at 11 in the…
CNN — Eight people have died in the city of Brno, the Czech Republic, after a large fire broke out early on Thursday in an area frequented by homeless people, Czech police said. A spokesperson said the fire started overnight at a site of 12 interconnected mobile cabins near a residential complex in Brno, the second largest Czech city. The cabins were used as a dormitory for construction workers in the past, but have been abandoned for some time. The spokesperson added police believe the eight victims were likely homeless people sheltering in the cabins. The Fire Rescue Service of…
CNN — At first glance, it looks like a sci-fi movie. What appear to be two drones, streaking across the night sky in Moscow, head straight for the Kremlin, on target to hit the historic Senate Palace, the official residence of Vladimir Putin. CNN military analyst breaks down alleged Kremlin drone strike video Suddenly, just as one passes the Russian flag flying atop the building, it explodes, raining fiery shards down on the roof. The video first appeared in the early hours of Wednesday on Russian social media. The Kremlin was slow to react, eventually releasing a statement calling it…
CNN — Numerous waves of showers and thunderstorms will move across the United Kingdom over the next several days, leaving those celebrating King Charles III’s coronation to dodge the rain over the weekend of festivities. King Charles will be officially crowned during an ornate and deeply religious ceremony in London this Saturday, the same weekend the UK will see “unsettled” weather “with showers or longer spells of rain for many,” the UK Met Office said in a press release regarding the coronation forecast. “Friday will be a day of sunshine and showers, which could be heavy and slow moving at…
CNN — The United States rejected “ludicrous” accusations from Russia that it was behind an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin as Moscow’s deputy foreign minister warned the two powers are on the precipice of an “open-armed conflict.” Relations between the US and Russia are at their lowest point since the Cold War, but in the aftermath of Wednesday’s purported drone attack on the Kremlin – the official residence of the Russian president – Moscow has dramatically dialed up its rhetoric. When asked by CNN if Moscow believed the US was behind the attack, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: “Undoubtedly,…
CNN — A gunman suspected of killing at least eight people in Serbia on Thursday has been arrested, after a massive overnight manhunt involving hundreds of special forces, according to a spokesperson from Serbia’s Interior Ministry. The suspect was identified by authorities as a 21-year-old male named Uros B. The massacre took place 11 p.m. Thursday night, according to the country’s Interior Ministry – the country’s second mass shooting in just two days. The attacker was in a vehicle with two other people, and got out before opening fire with an automatic weapon in the village of Dubona, about 60…
Tokyo CNN — A police officer was found dead in the grounds of the Japanese Prime Minister’s official residence early Friday morning, according to Tokyo Metropolitan Police, who are investigating the incident as a possible suicide. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was not at the residence when a fellow police officer found the 25-year-old man in the West Gate guard station around 4:40 a.m., local time. The deceased officer had been on guard duty at the residence when the incident occurred, according to police. Japanese authorities have been on high alert after a recent attack on Kishida. Last month, a man…
CNN — Standing in front of the bodies of dozens of what he claims are his fighters killed in Russia’s war with Ukraine, the head of the private military company Wagner on Thursday unleashed an expletive-laden challenge to Russia’s military leadership, blaming their deaths on a lack of support from Moscow. “We are lacking 70% of the needed ammunition!” Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin says in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app. Shining a small flashlight on the corpses laying outdoors near what appears to be the front lines of the war, Prigozhin claims they are the casualties of…
CNN — Russia claimed Ukraine launched an attempt to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin with a drone strike on the Kremlin overnight on Wednesday, an extraordinary allegation that was met with forceful denials in Kyiv. The Kremlin said the attack was foiled and the alleged drones destroyed. Video that appeared on social media shows a bright flash and a puff of smoke over a part of the Kremlin, the official residence of the Russian president and the most potent symbol of power in Moscow. In a statement, the Kremlin said it regarded the alleged attack as terrorism and a deliberate…
