Workers use sandbags to block water as the worst floods to hit Central and Eastern Europe in at least two decades kill 24. The Danube River has peaked at a 10-year high in a heavily fortified Budapest with its water reaching the steps of parliament, after deadly Storm Boris lashed Europe. As the swollen Danube waters moved south on Saturday, …
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Houses and armored vehicles were destroyed during fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces in recently liberated Klishchiivka, Ukraine. Russia struck the Black Sea region of Odesa for a second night in a row in a drone barrage that damaged a warehouse, charred dozens of trucks, injured two drivers and forced the suspension of ferry service to Romania, Ukrainian officials said …
President Iohannis has decried Russia’s recent attacks on Danube ports near Romania, but as the war drops down the news agenda, others are less concerned. Mihai Lukacs, a 42-year-old theatre director from Bucharest, said even though last week’s attacks were near the border, “it means nothing.” “I don’t feel the pressure because when it was presented in the news, it …
