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Aug 22, 2022 9:00 am
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Downtown/Yale Alder Alex Guzhnay (third from left) with his family at Sunday's parade.
Sanjuanito dancers twirl their way up Church St.
Billowing yellow, blue and red flags and the panpipe-filled sounds of Sanjuanitodance music filled Church Street on Sunday, as the annual Ecuadorian Cultural Civic Parade returned downtown for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Jul 13, 2022 9:38 am
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Judée Badibanga Kabongo, special advisor to the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, pitches diaspora in Dixwell.
New Haven and the Democratic Republic of the Congo strengthened their relationship this week through an exchange of ideas on a common challenge: poverty.
A delegation of government officials from the DRC arrived Saturday in New Haven, their first stop in a tour across the United States that will include D.C., Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, and Oklahoma.
The city made its bid for a potential spot in U.S. diplomatic history Tuesday, as alders voted unanimously in support of a nonbinding resolution urging President Joe Biden to resume an Obama-era rapprochement with the Caribbean island nation.
Seth Godfrey recalls FBI visit during testimony Thursday night.
U.S.-Cuba diplomacy was the topic of discussion at City Hall, as alders advanced a measure calling on the president “to build a new cooperative relationship” with the Caribbean nation.
The occasion was a hearing Thursday night held by the New Haven Board of Alders Health and Human Services Committee.
The three alders present — committee Chair Darryl Brackeen, Fair Haven’s Sarah Miller and Downtown’s Alex Guzhnay — heard testimony on a nonbinding resolution to end the U.S. blockade against Cuba and reverse President Trump’s reversal of President Obama’s policy of increasing ties between the two nations.
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Jun 23, 2022 1:17 pm
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Sister Thi Kim Uyen Do, OP, melds traditional and modern Vietnamese dance techniques at Wecnesday celebration.
Internationally-minded New Haveners gathered in the Ives Main Library Branch’s Orchid Cafe to celebrate 45 years of sister-city relationships with eight communities around the world — and a local culture that welcomes immigrants and travelers amid rising xenophobia.
Mykola Blyzniuk steered a 53-foot tractor-trailer from George Street filled with 24 pallets and 600 cartons of donated bandages, wheelchairs, scalpels, breathing tubes, and first aid kits destined for Lviv, Ukraine.
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Apr 19, 2022 1:35 pm
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Sisterhood is powerful: New Haveners from Tlaxcala celebrate their Mexican roots at Tuesday's event.
Alejandro Chavez, waiting to renew his passport at the newly opened mobile consulate at the library.
Alejandro Chavez drove up from his home in the Bronx to New Haven to get his Mexican passport renewed — at a new library-hosted mobile consulate set up in honor of a visit from a leader from New Haven’s sister city from below the border.
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Mar 18, 2022 4:33 pm
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Hamden Detective Sean Dolan, Hamden Police Chief John Sullivan, New Haven Police Chief Renee Dominguez, and Hartford Assistant Chief Kenny Howell at Friday's announcement.
Public safety officers gathered outside the Hamden Police Department Friday afternoon to join joggers and street strollers enjoying the sunny spring weather — and to announce efforts to help protect Ukrainian civilians for whom such mundane pleasures have been disrupted by the war.
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Mar 11, 2022 1:20 pm
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U.S. Sen. Murphy on the Green on Friday.
The morning after Congress signed off on more than $13 billion in military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine, U.S. Sen Chris Murphy of Connecticut called on the United States to “bring [Russian President Vladimir Putin] to his knees through sanctions, and rescue as many Ukrainians from that country as we have the capability to do.”
Crowd rallies on the Green Sunday in support of Ukraine's resistance to the Russian invasion.
Three hundred Ukrainian-Americans and their allies rallied on the New Haven Green Sunday, linking the values of freedom and liberty that have often been celebrated in that historic space, to the life and death battle now raging in the second week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Parishioners sing Ukrainian national anthem at St. Michael Church.
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Myron Melnyk, at right, Sunday with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who invited him to Tuesday night's State of the Union address.
The first Sunday of the war in Ukraine saw prayer services at New Haven’s Ukrainian churches attracting hundreds of patriotic parishioners and supportive political leaders, all determined to see Ukraine remain a free, independent nation.
Ukrainians greeted each other with “Heroyam Slava” — “Glory to the Ukrainian fighters.” Then they prayed, shared heart-rending stories of killed or endangered relatives, and found hope in the continuing fight against Russian invaders.
At Thursday night's church service on George Street.
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Alexandra Altrui: "My poor country."
As Russian forces pushed towards Kyiv Thursday night, Alexandra Altrui sat in a back pew of the Ukrainian Catholic church on George Street and wept — praying for her nephew as he prepared to take up arms to defend her home country under siege.
Even in 12 weeks, Connecticut can find a way to enable more people get mental-health help.
So proclaimed State Sen. Jorge Cabrera, who vowed to work with his colleagues to pass legislation to that effect during the “short session” that begins at the Capitol on Feb. 9.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, third from left, across table from U.S. Sens. Robert Portman, Chris Murphy, Jeanne Shaheen, Amy Klobuchar, Richard Blumenthal and Roger Wicker.
As the world watches whether Russia will invade Ukraine, Connecticut’s two U.S. senators traveled to the heart of the potential conflict to deliver a bipartisan message.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 8, 2021 9:45 am
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Stephen Kobasa, Allie Perry at final stone laying at B’way Triangle.
Twenty years to the day after the United States first bombed the Taliban, New Haveners officially put an end to one home front of the Afghanistan War — by laying a final stone commemorating last month’s military and civilian deaths from “forever wars” in the Middle East.
Munir Ahmed: Imagine “your country collapsing in front of your eyes.”
The latest news about desperate Afghans seeking to flee the Taliban isn’t an abstract story about strangers for Munir Ahmed. It’s about his parents and brothers.
