Paul Godfrey

United States

Journalist at United Press International (UPI)

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Federal judge blocks Trump administration Harvard student ban

1 day ago | upi.com | Paul Godfrey

June 6 (UPI) -- A federal judge temporarily paused President Donald Trump's ban on foreign nationals coming to study, teach, or do research at Harvard University, pending a hearing later in June. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs' ruling Thursday night came after Harvard filed a suit in Boston alleging Trump's proclamation, issued a day earlier, was unlawful because it violated the First Amendment.
Four killed, 53 injured in Russian drone, missile attack on Ukraine

1 day ago | upi.com | Paul Godfrey

June 6 (UPI) -- At least four people were killed and 53 injured in Ukraine after Russia launched almost 500 drones and ballistic missiles as the country came under sustained airborne assault for the second night in a row.
Russian 'retaliatory' airstrikes across Ukraine kill 5, injure 28

2 days ago | upi.com | Paul Godfrey

June 5 (UPI) -- At least five people were killed, including a child, and 28 injured after Russian forces launched more than 100 drones, guided bombs and missiles against seven Ukrainian regions overnight. All of the fatalities occured in the northern city of Pryluky, a city of 51,500 people 90 miles east of Kyiv, where attack drones set residential areas on fire and razed houses, according to the the State Emergency Service.
Bodies of 2 hostages recovered from Gaza in Israeli military operation

2 days ago | upi.com | Paul Godfrey

June 5 (UPI) -- Israel said Thursday it had recovered the remains of two Israeli-American hostages in a military operation overnight in the Khan Yunis area of southern Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a post on X that the bodies of Gadi Haggai, 72, and Judy Weinstein-Haggai, 70, had been returned to their families in Israel 20 months after they were killed in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel and taken back to Gaza.
Ukraine delegation visits Washington as Senate mulls Russia sanctions

3 days ago | upi.com | Paul Godfrey

June 4 (UPI) -- Ukrainian officials were set to update U.S. senators on Wednesday on the war and discuss arms purchases and efforts to pressure Russia to negotiate a peace deal, including a tough new bipartisan sanctions bill due to come to the floor of the upper chamber next week.
3 unexploded WWII bombs in Cologne force evacuation of 20,500 people

3 days ago | tri-cityherald.com | Paul Godfrey

A Cologne public order officer cordons off access to the Rhine River promenade on Wednesday after three unexploded bombs from the Second World War were found at the Deutzer Werft, forcing a large area of the center of the city to be evacuated. Photo by Christopher Neundorf/EPA-EFE June 4 (UPI) -- More than 20,000 people in Germany were evacuated as authorities worked Wednesday to defuse three huge unexploded bombs from World War II at a construction site in the center of the city.
U.S.-backed alternate aid distribution network begins Gaza operations

1 week ago | upi.com | Paul Godfrey

May 27 (UPI) -- A new U.S.-Israeli mechanism for delivering humanitarian assistance into Gaza that bypasses the United Nations and other aid agencies in favor of armed private contractors was underway on Tuesday. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said Monday it had begun distributing food to residents after lorry loads of supplies had been unloaded at secure hubs in the besieged Palestinian enclave -- but did not provide details of quantities or the areas where it was being distributed.
21 Greek coast guards, officials, charged in deadly migrant shipwreck

1 week ago | upi.com | Paul Godfrey

May 27 (UPI) -- A court in Greece charged 17 members of the Hellenic Coast Guard and four officials in connection with a shipwreck in which as many as 650 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean Sea off the southern city of Pylos in June 2023.
At least 5 killed by 'devastating' floods in eastern Australia

2 weeks ago | upi.com | Paul Godfrey

May 23 (UPI) -- Five people were confirmed killed on Friday in record flooding in northern New South Wales with 50,000 people cut off, thousands of homes and businesses without power and cattle herds wiped out. Police confirmed the fifth fatality Friday evening after they recovered a body, believed to be a man in his 80s, from a property in the north of the state that had been cut off by flooding and landslides.
Netanyahu accuses Britain, France, Canada of siding with Hamas

2 weeks ago | upi.com | Paul Godfrey

May 23 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the leaders of Britain, France and Canada, of backing the "mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers" in Hamas over Israel.

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