Red tape and reluctant locals cloud Germany's solar power rush
FILE PHOTO: Technicians sort solar panels on the final production line at photovoltaics systems maker Solarwatt in Dresden, Germany, May 4, 2022. REUTERS/Matthias Rietschel/File Photo
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More than 1,000 Ukrainian refugees attended a job fair in Brooklyn hosted by the Edith and Carl Marks JCH of Bensonhurst, in partnership with UJA-Federation of New York.
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Missile destroys Ukraine apartment block
Search and rescue teams worked overnight after a Russian missile strike destroyed an apartment building and damaged nine others in Kramatorsk.
Cracks begin to show in India's Himalayan building spree
The buildings and land beneath houses had been weakened - geologists, residents and officials say - by the rapid construction in the geologically unstable mountains as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushes to carve roads and rail deep into the Himalayan mountains.
Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney
Punxsutawney Phil, the weather-forecasting groundhog, emerged from his burrow in Pennsylvania, saw his shadow and predicted six more weeks of winter.
Tens of thousands welcome Pope Francis in Democratic Republic of Congo
The pope urged the Congolese people to grant each other a "great amnesty of the heart" and called on any Christians engaged in battle to lay down their arms. Eastern Congo has been plagued by conflict for decades.
Tyre Nichols funeral draws civil rights leaders, U.S. vice president
Family and friends of Tyre Nichols gathered in a Memphis church to pay their final respects to the Black 29-year-old father whose fatal beating by police last month transformed him into the new face of the U.S. racial justice movement.