Since the earliest weeks of the war, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has pleaded to any government that would listen that his country was outgunned
Year: 2023
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A major strike on Russian troops.
Deadly Strike on Russians in Ukraine Exposes Moscow’s Military Failings
In one of their deadliest attacks yet on Russian forces, Ukrainians used American-made rockets to kill dozens — and perhaps hundreds — of Moscow’s troops
A Balkan Leader Gets the Hollywood Treatment, Starring Kevin Spacey
A director cast the beleaguered actor as Franjo Tudjman, the late Croatian leader, whom some call a patriot and others revile as an ethnonationalist zealot.
Russia’s War on Ukraine Worsens Global Starvation
ISTANBUL — Hulking ships carrying Ukrainian wheat and other grains are backed up along the Bosporus here in Istanbul as they await inspections before moving
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Lula becomes Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, widely known as Lula, took the reins of the Brazilian government yesterday in an elaborate inauguration,
Russia Bombards Ukraine as Putin Calls Invasion a ‘Sacred Duty’
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia rained missiles and exploding drones on Ukraine’s capital and other cities on Saturday in a deadly New Year’s Eve assault, punctuating
Russian Airstrikes Pummel Ukrainian Civilians
KYIV, Ukraine — Fed up with huddling for safety in their corridors and bathrooms during Russia’s aerial attacks, residents of one neighborhood in Kyiv took
Pope Benedict XVI Leaves a Spotty Legacy With Sex Abuse Scandal
The clerical sex abuse scandal broke under Pope John Paul II in the years that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — who would later become Pope Benedict
In Bucha, a Final Rampage Served as a Coda to a Month of Atrocities
BUCHA, Ukraine — On one of the last nights of the Russian occupation of Bucha, a lone Russian soldier, drunk or high, went out looking