[ad_1] Rudimentary Ukrainian trench lines outside Avdiivka, in an area claimed by Russia. Satellite image from Planet Labs, Feb. 26 By The New York Times Russian forces continue to make small but rapid gains outside of the eastern Ukrainian city…
[ad_1] Elena Milashina, a daring Russian reporter beaten unconscious and doused in liquid iodine last year, said she has bid farewell to far too many journalists, activists and opposition figures who died an untimely death. But never, she said in…
[ad_1] President Biden turned to an unlikely ally on Friday in his drive to build support for Ukraine’s war effort as U.S. aid falters, declaring during a White House visit by the far-right prime minister of Italy that the two…
[ad_1] President Biden said on Friday that the United States would begin airdropping humanitarian relief supplies into Gaza, a decision prompted by the dozens of Palestinians who were killed as Israeli forces opened fire near an aid convoy in Gaza…
[ad_1] Nearly 60 leaders from international and regional news outlets signed a letter on Thursday and Friday committing their support for journalists covering the war in Gaza and calling for their safety and the freedom to do their work amid…
[ad_1] Iran held parliamentary elections on Friday, but despite officials’ last-minute attempts to increase voter turnout with pleas on social media and roses at polling stations, many people stayed away from the ballot in an act of protest against the…
[ad_1] They went out by the thousands, camping overnight along a coastal road in the cold Gaza night, huddled together by small fires, waiting for supplies to come so they could feed their families. What they encountered was death and…
[ad_1] The House this week overwhelmingly passed legislation meant to speed up the development of a new generation of nuclear power plants, the latest sign that a once-contentious source of energy is now attracting broad political support in Washington. The…
[ad_1] This image of Aleksei A. Navalny’s body in a coffin, at a church in southern Moscow, conveys many of the traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church, an institution that has bound itself closely to the Kremlin but that also…
[ad_1] As It Happens6:24Burned and bulldozed British pub to be rebuilt just as it was — crooked When England’s historic Cooked House pub first started leaning to one side more than 250 years ago, it was by accident. But now…