2026-01-27 21:35

KYIV, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A Russian drone strike on a passenger train in northeastern Ukraine killed five people, prosecutors said, an attack denounced as terrorism by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Prosecutors said fragments of five bodies had been found at the scene of the strike on the train by a village in northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region. Sign up here. The train had been operating from Chop, near Ukraine's western borders with Hungary and Slovakia, to the town of Barvinkove. Photographs posted online showed at least two carriages ablaze next to a snow-covered railbed. "In any country, a drone strike on a civilian train would be considered in exactly the same way – purely as terrorism. There is not and cannot be any military purpose in this," Zelenskiy wrote on the Telegram messaging app. "Our cause – and this is what should unite all normal people in the world – is to ensure the progress of protecting life. This is possible through pressure on Russia." Prosecutors said one drone struck the train and two more hit an area alongside it. In his post on Telegram, Zelenskiy said four people had been killed. The train, he said, was carrying more than 200 passengers, including 18 in the wagon that was hit. Prosecutors had said earlier that 155 passengers were aboard the train. Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba had described the attack by three drones as a "direct act of Russian terror." Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, CEO of Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukrainian national railways, thanked rescue teams and fellow passengers who helped evacuate people and pledged that trains would keep running. "Keeping things moving is becoming more difficult," Pertsovskyi wrote on Facebook. "We are regrouping. There will be additional strict security measures in some places, but even on those most frightening days, we cannot give up." https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-drone-strike-passenger-train-kharkiv-region-kills-three-prosecutors-say-2026-01-27/

2026-01-27 21:35

SAO PAULO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Brazilian planemaker Embraer's (EMBJ3.SA) , opens new tab firm order backlog stood at a record $31.6 billion at the end of the fourth quarter, up 20% from a year earlier, according to a securities filing published on Tuesday. Sign up here. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/brazils-embraer-ends-2025-with-record-backlog-316-billion-2026-01-27/

2026-01-27 21:29

Jan 27 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday allowed Vineyard Wind to resume work on its Massachusetts offshore wind project, which President Donald Trump's administration halted along with four other projects last month due to national security concerns. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, is the latest of several recent legal setbacks for Trump's anti-offshore wind policy. Sign up here. An Interior Department spokesperson said the agency had no comment on pending litigation. Vineyard Wind, a $4.5 billion joint venture between Spain's Iberdrola (IBE.MC) , opens new tab and Denmark's Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, is the fourth project paused by the Interior Department's December 22 order to receive a reprieve from a federal court. The government paused the projects due to what it said was new, classified information on risks to national security from radar interference. The injunctions have given developers of multi-billion dollar projects what could be temporary relief to continue construction while their underlying lawsuits, which seek to permanently block the administration's order, proceed. Vineyard Wind is 95% completed and has been sending power to the grid for more than a year. The administration's order allowed the project to continue producing electricity during what was meant to be a 90-day pause. In a statement, Vineyard Wind said it would focus on restarting construction safely. "As the legal process proceeds, Vineyard Wind will continue to work with the Administration to understand the matters raised in the Order," the company said. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/us-judge-allows-massachusetts-offshore-wind-project-resume-construction-blocking-2026-01-27/

2026-01-27 21:26

WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that "Cuba will be failing pretty soon," adding that Venezuela, once the island's top supplier, has not recently sent oil or money to Cuba. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT Emboldened by the U.S. military's seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a deadly raid earlier this month that Trump ordered, the Republican leader has talked of acting against Cuba and pressuring its leadership. Sign up here. Trump has vowed to stop oil and money from longtime backer Venezuela from reaching Cuba. KEY QUOTES "Cuba will be failing pretty soon. Cuba is really a nation that's very close to failing," Trump told reporters on Tuesday. "You know, they got their money from Venezuela. They got the oil from Venezuela. They are not getting that anymore," he added. CONTEXT Trump has said Washington will "run" Venezuela where Maduro's former vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, became interim president and is governing the country under U.S. oversight. The U.N. human rights office has said the U.S. raid in which Maduro was seized was a violation of international law. Human rights experts say Trump's focus on exploiting Venezuelan oil echoed an imperialist approach and raised questions about U.S. efforts to frame Maduro's capture as a law enforcement action to cut drug trafficking. Cuba's president said this month Washington had no moral authority to force a deal on Cuba after Trump suggested the Communist-run island should strike an agreement with the U.S. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-says-cuba-will-be-failing-pretty-soon-2026-01-27/

2026-01-27 20:47

HOUSTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Exports of crude oil and liquefied natural gas from U.S. Gulf Coast ports tumbled to zero on Sunday before rebounding on Monday, after a massive winter storm swept across the country, ship-tracking service Vortexa said. An Arctic blast has pummeled the United States in recent days, straining energy infrastructure and power grids. Up to 2 million barrels per day of oil production went offline over the weekend due to the frigid weather, according to some analyst estimates. Sign up here. Port closures, enacted as a precautionary measure during inclement weather to prevent incidents and minimize port congestion, reduced exports, said Samantha Santa Maria-Hartke, head of market analysis at Vortexa. Exports rebounded on Monday with flows above seasonal norms, she added, as ports reopened. Crude oil exports were around 4.2 million bpd on Saturday, and fell to zero on Sunday before climbing to 4.4 million bpd on Monday, Vortexa data showed. LNG exports fell from 159 million metric tonnes per annum (mtpa) on Saturday to zero on Sunday. It climbed to 83.1 million mtpa on Monday, the data showed. Exports of liquefied petroleum gas, such as propane and butane, fell by 75% to 739,454 bpd from Saturday to Sunday, Vortexa said. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-gulf-coast-oil-lng-exports-hit-zero-sunday-due-freeze-vortexa-says-2026-01-27/

2026-01-27 20:42

Almost 200 million under some form of winter cold warning at least through February 1 Emergency responders mobilized to protect vulnerable populations Various storm-related deaths include hypothermia and cardiac incidents Jan 27 - At least 38 people across 14 states had died as of Tuesday from a powerful winter storm that left much of the central and eastern U.S. gripped by snow, ice, and below-freezing temperatures, according to local officials and news reports. The storm started to develop on Friday and dumped snow across a large region over the weekend. The snow snarled road traffic and led to widespread flight cancellations and power outages before subsiding Monday, leaving behind bitter cold that is expected to linger. Sign up here. By Tuesday, cities were mobilizing emergency responders and resources to ensure that residents, particularly homeless people, were safe, even as more than 550,000 homes and businesses across the country lacked electricity. Ten of the storm's fatal victims were in New York City, where temperatures were the coldest they had been in eight years, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a news conference on Tuesday, when the low hit 8 degrees Fahrenheit. While the 10 victims were found outside, it was not clear whether they were homeless. Mamdani told reporters Monday that some of the dead "had had interactions with our shelter system in the past. It is still too early to share a broader diagnosis or a cause of death." New York City postponed from this week until early February an annual count of its homeless population required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development "Outreach workers should be focused on bringing New Yorkers inside, not on data collection," Mamdani said. "Here is the bottom line, New York City: Extreme weather is not a personal failure." Around 500 of the more than 4,000 homeless people estimated to live in the city's streets and subway have been placed in shelters since January 19, Mamdani said. Outreach workers were checking every two hours on 350 homeless people who are at particular risk due to underlying medical conditions. In Nashville, Tennessee, a city of about 680,000 where more than 135,000 homes and businesses remain without power, the temperature is expected to drop to 6 degrees Fahrenheit by Wednesday morning with below-zero wind chills. "Let's be clear about what this is," Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell said at a Tuesday press conference. "It is an historic ice storm." Nashville officials said about 1,400 homeless people had filled all three of the city's homeless shelters and two overflow shelters, with police and firefighters working overtime and emergency workers checking the streets. The Nashville Rescue Mission, a homeless charity that feeds, clothes and offers shelter year-round, typically might have about 400 people a night, but in the cold snap that number has swollen to about 7,000. "We're always full, but we never turn anyone away," an attendant who was not authorized to speak to reporters so did not give a name told Reuters by telephone. "When the weather is bad, people come in out of the cold." VARIOUS CAUSES OF DEATH Across the country, storm-related causes of death ranged from hypothermia and exposure to cardiac incidents while clearing snow. In Bonham, Texas, about 55 miles northeast of Dallas, three young boys died after falling in an ice pond over the weekend, though the exact circumstances were unclear, according to the local fire department. Several hours away in Austin, Texas, a person died of apparent hypothermia while trying to shelter at an abandoned gas station, authorities said. Other hypothermia deaths were reported from Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Michigan, local media reported. Almost 200 million Americans remain under some form of winter cold warning at least through February 1. Forecasters are watching for another possible winter storm to impact the eastern U.S. this weekend, said David Roth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center. https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/winter-storm-kills-dozens-cold-lingers-central-eastern-us-2026-01-27/