Category: crisis

The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)

The wealthy but selfish parents of a lonely young girl begin to rethink what is important to them after a servant’s irresponsibility results in a crisis. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later…


Russian Defense Ministry: Russia Targets Ukraine’s Long-Range Missiles

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered generals to prioritise destroying Ukraine’s long-range missile and artillery weapons after Western-supplied weapons were used to strike Russian supply lines. Nearly five months since President Vladimir Putin ordered the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces are grinding through the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine and now control around a…


Russia Says It Is Stepping Up Operations as More Rockets Hit Ukraine

KYIV—Russia has ordered its forces in Ukraine to step up operations, its defence ministry said on Saturday, as rockets and missiles pounded the country in the latest of a series of bombardments that Kyiv says have killed dozens of people in recent days. In the latest strikes, missiles hit the northeastern town of Chuhuiv in…


Europe ‘Shot Itself in the Lungs’ With Sanctions on Russia, Orban Says

BUDAPEST—The European Union has “shot itself in the lungs” with ill-considered economic sanctions on Russia, which, unless rolled back, risk destroying the European economy, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. Gas supplies to Europe have tightened and fuel costs have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February and subsequent sanctions, leaving countries…


Ukrainian City Cleans Up After Russian Missile Attack

VINNYTSIA, Ukraine, July 15—A Ukrainian city far from the frontline cleared its streets on Friday, a day after a Russian missile attack killed at least 23 people and wounded scores. Ukraine said Thursday’s strike on an office building in Vinnytsia, a city of 370,000 people about 200 km (125 miles) southwest of Kyiv, had been…


Russia Strikes Ukrainian City a Day After Grain Talks Breakthrough

KYIV—Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia far behind the frontlines on Thursday in an attack which Ukrainian officials said had left at least 12 people dead. The strike, which Ukraine said had also wounded dozens, came a day after a breakthrough in talks between Moscow and Kyiv to unblock Ukrainian grain exports and…


Thousands Protest Against Sri Lanka’s New Acting President

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled on a military jet on Wednesday after angry protesters seized his home and office, and appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as acting president while he is overseas. Wickremesinghe quickly declared a nationwide state of emergency to counter swelling protests over the country’s economic and political collapse. Rajapaksa…


Ukrainian Rockets Hit Russian-Controlled Area as Kyiv Claims It Readies Southern Counter-Attack

KYIV—Ukraine said on Tuesday it had carried out a long-range rocket strike against Russian forces and military equipment in southern Ukraine, as it says it is planning to retake in a counter-offensive using hundreds of thousands of troops. According to Ukraine, the strike hit an ammunition dump in the town of Nova Kakhovka in the…


Europe on Edge as Nord Stream Russian Gas Link Enters Shutdown

LONDON/FRANKFURT—The biggest single pipeline carrying Russian gas to Germany began annual maintenance on Monday, with flows expected to stop for 10 days, but governments, markets, and, companies are worried the shutdown might be extended because of the war in Ukraine. The Nord Stream 1 pipeline transports 55 billion cubic meters (bcm) a year of gas…


Russian Strikes Kill 3 in Ukraine’s Second City Kharkiv

CHASIV YAR, Ukraine/KYIV—Russian weapons pounding Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv killed at least three people on Monday, authorities said, while rescuers pulled survivors from the rubble of an earlier strike on an apartment block that killed 19 people in another city. The artillery, multiple rocket launcher, and tank attack on Kharkiv also injured 31 people,…