Latest Developments in Ukraine: May 25

Latest Developments in Ukraine: May 25

For full coverage of the crisis in Ukraine, visit Flashpoint Ukraine. The latest developments in the conflict between Russia and...

Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Campaigners See No Misuse of Western Military Aid

Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Campaigners See No Misuse of Western Military Aid

Prominent Ukrainian anti-corruption campaigners say they have seen no signs that their armed forces are misusing Western military supplies in...

US to End Russia’s Ability to Pay International Investors

US to End Russia’s Ability to Pay International Investors

The U.S. will close the last avenue for Russia to pay its billions in debt back to international investors on...

Conference Room in Germany Becomes Nerve Center for Weapons Shipments to Ukraine

Conference Room in Germany Becomes Nerve Center for Weapons Shipments to Ukraine

Two blocks from a casino and Burger King is a medium-sized room covered with a blue carpet that until four...

Hungary’s Government Gets Emergency Powers Due to Ukraine War, PM Orban Says

Hungary’s Government Gets Emergency Powers Due to Ukraine War, PM Orban Says

Hungary’s government will assume emergency powers in order to be able to respond more quickly to challenges created by the...

Meta Returns with Africa Day Campaign

Meta Returns with Africa Day Campaign

Meta, the company that owns Facebook, is hosting its second annual Africa Day campaign to promote Africans who are making...

Navalny’s Appeal of 9 Year Jail Sentence Denied in Moscow 

Navalny’s Appeal of 9 Year Jail Sentence Denied in Moscow 

A Moscow court has upheld a nine-year prison term for opposition politician Alexey Navalny, who is already behind bars for...

Ukraine Calls for Faster Weapons Deliveries

Ukraine Calls for Faster Weapons Deliveries

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba Tuesday urged other governments to send more weapons more quickly to aid Ukraine’s fight against...

Latest Developments in Ukraine: May 24

Latest Developments in Ukraine: May 24

For full coverage of the crisis in Ukraine, visit Flashpoint Ukraine. The latest developments in the conflict between Russia and...

Turkey Closes in on Kurdish Militants, Threatening Regional Shake Up

Turkey Closes in on Kurdish Militants, Threatening Regional Shake Up

Turkey is vowing to crush the presence of the Kurdish militant group PKK in Iraq. The PKK has used neighboring...

France’s New Education Minister Sparks Surprise, Controversy 

France’s New Education Minister Sparks Surprise, Controversy 

At his swearing-in ceremony, new Education Minister Pap Ndiaye paid tribute to the nation’s teachers, singling out Samuel Paty, killed...

Facebook, Instagram to Reveal More on How Ads Target Users

Facebook, Instagram to Reveal More on How Ads Target Users

 Facebook parent Meta said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads just...

Spain’s Ex-King Visits Son in Madrid for First Time in Two Years

Spain’s Ex-King Visits Son in Madrid for First Time in Two Years

Scandal-tainted former Spanish King Juan Carlos I visited his son and current monarch Felipe VI in Madrid on Monday, during...

Turkey’s Erdogan Says He Will No Longer Talk to Greek PM 

Turkey’s Erdogan Says He Will No Longer Talk to Greek PM 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday he would cease talking to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and cancel a...

Ukraine’s President Asks Davos Global Elite to Help Isolate Russia

Ukraine’s President Asks Davos Global Elite to Help Isolate Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told world leaders and business executives at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Monday that...

Russian UN Envoy Quits in Protest of Ukraine Invasion

Russian UN Envoy Quits in Protest of Ukraine Invasion

A veteran Russian diplomat to the United Nations office in Geneva resigned Monday because he said he was “so ashamed”...

Who is Buying Russia’s Oil?

Who is Buying Russia’s Oil?

So far, Russia’s oil exports have not slowed down a bit from the war in Ukraine and international sanctions. In...

German Chancellor Scholz Kicks off Africa Trip in Senegal

German Chancellor Scholz Kicks off Africa Trip in Senegal

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his country is interested in a major gas exploitation project in Senegal as he began...

Latest Developments in Ukraine: May 23

Latest Developments in Ukraine: May 23

For full coverage of the crisis in Ukraine, visit Flashpoint Ukraine. The latest developments in the conflict between Russia and...

Cannes: Transylvania-set ‘R.M.N.’ Probes a Ubiquitous Crisis

Cannes: Transylvania-set ‘R.M.N.’ Probes a Ubiquitous Crisis

Cristian Mungiu’s Cannes Film Festival entry “R.M.N.” is set in an unnamed mountainous Transylvanian village in Romania, but the conflicts...

Explainer: Why Will Russia’s Ukraine War Affect Wimbledon?

Explainer: Why Will Russia’s Ukraine War Affect Wimbledon?

The usual trophies and prize money will be on the line for Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek and other top players...

Pope Voices Hope Church in China Can Operate in Freedom

Pope Voices Hope Church in China Can Operate in Freedom

Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his spiritual closeness to Catholics in China, voicing hope that the church there operates in...