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Disabled Costa Allegra arrives in Seychelles port after 3 days at sea without power

Disembarkation of more than 1100 passengers begins in the Seychelles as stricken cruise ship Costa Allegra docks successfully.

(AP) Victoria - Hot and tired passengers disembarking from a disabled cruise ship Thursday in the Seychelles said they had prepared to abandon ship when fire broke out in the engine room three days ago, causing smoke to billow from the vessel that was suddenly adrift in waters prowled by pirates.

Life boats were lowered, passengers said. Austrian Thomas Foaller said some passengers began to panic. Couples that were separated were calling out to each other, he said.

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Bakhmut Confidential: Whispered Fears, Endgame Visions

In the ambulances transporting the wounded to the field hospitals, in the vans traveling to the front or in the trains returning them home for a few days' rest, the soldiers stationed on the Bakhmut front do not talk about military victories or war strategies. They talk about death, and life.

Bakhmut Confidential: Whispered Fears, Endgame Visions

In a Ukrainian trench near Bakhmut

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Patricia Simón

BAKHMUT — "I heard the drone above my head and the tank began firing at me. I changed position, heard it again and then it hit me." Andriy waits in the military truck for more injured Ukrainians like himself to arrive. The other ambulance is on its way to the field hospital with a dying soldier. They can't leave, in case a serious case arrives. Around them, snowy fields. Over their heads, the whistling of shells.

"That explosion is outgoing," explains a soldier. "That one, incoming," he adds, minutes later, when the sound of the explosion startles those present.

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Meanwhile, Andriy keeps his gaze on the ground. I can't tell what he's looking at, nor guess at what he sees. The paramedic tells him to lie down and rest. Before the war, the Viking-esque man offering him tea was a veterinarian. Now he saves human lives with the same knowledge that helped him prevent epidemics on pig farms.

Oleg Ologkov kneels down, takes Andriy's shoes off, inserts thermal insoles into his military boots, and covers him with a blanket. Such tenderness between men is hardly seen outside of war.

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