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KYIV, Ukraine AP 鈥?Three Rus stanley spain sian mi stanley de ssiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 14 people, authorities said.At least 61 people, including two children, were wounded in the morning attack, Ukrainian emergency services said. Chernihiv lies about 150 kilometers 90 miles north of the capital, Kyiv, near the border with Russia and Belarus, and has a population of around 250,000 people.The latest Russian bombardment came as the war stretched into its third year and approached what could be a critical juncture as a lack of further military support from Ukraine Western partners increasingly leaves it at the mercy of the Kremlin bigger forces.Through the winter months, Russia made no dramatic advance along the 1,000-kilometer 620-mile front line, focusing instead on attritional warfare. However, Ukraines shortage of artillery ammunition, troops and armored vehicles has allowed the Russians to graduall stanley shop y push forward, military analysts say.A crucial element for Ukraine is the holdup in Washington of approval for an aid package that includes roughly $60 billion for Ukraine. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that he would try to move the package forward this week.Ukraines need is now acute, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank. The Russians are breaking out of positional warfare and beginning to restore maneuve Ajku Congo calls rebels ceasefire declaration false communication as reports of fighting continue
Four Americans who may have been exposed to the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone have arrived in the United States and are be stanley quencher ing observed at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the hospital said Sunday.The individuals arrived on Saturday and are being housed on the University of Nebrask stanley becher a Medical Center campus in Omaha, where medical personnel will monitor them for 21 days for any Ebola symptoms, hospital spokesman Taylor Wilson said. Theyre not sick and not contagious, Wilson said.A U.S. health care worker who tested positive for Ebola while in Sierra Leone arrived at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland on Friday and was in serious condition, the NIH said.The people under observation in Nebraska are among at least 10 Americans flown to the United States by non-commercial air transport who may have been exposed to the unidentified Ebola patient in Sierra Leone or had a similar exposure to the virus as the patient.While the virus has killed about 10,000 people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, only a handful of cases have been seen in the United States, Spain and Britain, almost all of them contracted i taza stanley n West Africa.Wilson said he could not provide the gender of any of the patients in Nebraska or any other details about them.The other individuals are expected to be monitored at the NIH or at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the CDC said.CDC officials and officials in Maryland and Atlanta were not immediately available for comment Sunday.The CDC had s |
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