More than a dozen U.S. states were under air-quality alerts on Wednesday as smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires wafted south, casting a dull gray pallor over city skylines and prompting officials to urge residents to remain indoors.
Residents abandon their inundated homes as floodwaters crested after the destruction of a vast dam on the front line between Russian and Ukrainian forces that each blamed on the other.
Authorities in New York warned residents about the health risks from air polluted by smoke from unprecedented early summer wildfires in eastern Canada.
More than 4,000 people have been relocated to temporary accommodation in the region following recent attacks on settlements near the Russia-Ukraine border.
More than 150,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, bursting through German coastal defenses to open the way to the liberation of western Europe from the Nazi regime.
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A torrent of water burst through a massive dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, flooding a swathe of the war zone and forcing villagers to flee.
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