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Ukraine’s top commander says fighting at the front is ‘intense but fully controlled.’
Ukraine’s top commander says fighting at the front is ‘intense but fully controlled.’
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Live Updates: Ukraine Warns of Russian Missile Buildup in Belarus
A top military commander cited the placement of missiles 15 miles from Ukraine’s northern border. The warning came as Russia’s operations in the south were undermined by Tuesday’s blasts in Crimea, which a Ukrainian official said were the work of an elite military unit.
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At Last, Online Travel Planning Is Becoming (a Little) Easier
While the internet has made it easier to plan a trip yourself — and see how much you’re saving — it also demands you slog through hundreds of pages of destination research, hotel and home rental options, and myriad flight-routing alternatives, becoming an amateur travel agent along the way. But this summer, a few travel…
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New Water Cuts Announced as Colorado River Hits Dangerous Low
With water levels in the Colorado River near their lowest point ever, Arizona and Nevada on Tuesday faced new restrictions on the amount of water they can pump out of the river, the most important in the Southwest. And the threat of more cuts looms. This week, those two states along with five others failed…
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Coptic Leader Criticizes Egypt’s Building Restrictions on Churches After Deadly Fire
CAIRO — After an electrical fire raced through a tiny Coptic Orthodox Church in central Cairo on Sunday and killed 41 worshipers, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt ordered the army to renovate the building immediately. Under the watch of soldiers, dozens of laborers worked throughout the night, dragging out charred beams and broken pipes,…
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Russia-Ukraine War: Live Updates and Crimea News
The Primorsky beach in Yalta, Crimea, in 2017.Credit…Denis Sinyakov for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — The Crimean Peninsula dangles off Ukraine’s southern coast like a diamond, blessed with a temperate climate, sandy beaches, lush wheat fields and orchards stuffed with cherries and peaches. It is also a critical staging ground for Russia’s invasion…
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India’s Partition: A History in Photos
Polarized by religion, friends and neighbors turned on each other. Hundreds of thousands were killed and millions displaced. The atrocities were horrific — pregnant women and infants were not spared. That was the unexpected result of Britain’s haphazard plan to leave the subcontinent in 1947 after nearly three centuries and split it into Hindu-majority India…
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In Ukraine, Ravers Clean Up Rubble (to a Beat)
YAHIDNE, Ukraine — They put on their pink, orange and green sunglasses again. Out of the closets came high platform shoes, short black skirts, leather leggings and metal jewelry. They were hip, young and beautiful, and ready to party on a recent balmy summer evening in a dramatic setting — a bombed-out ruin of a…
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Live Updates: Ukraine Claims Strike on Russian Mercenary Base
Reports of a strike in the Luhansk region of Ukraine’s east emerged on Sunday night. In the Kherson region in the south, Russia has withstood a barrage of Ukrainian attacks, but little territory has exchanged hands.
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Kenya Election Results: Live Updates
Supporters of William Ruto in Eldoret on Monday.Credit…Simon Maina/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images NAIROBI, Kenya — The head of Kenya’s electoral commission announced on Monday that William Ruto, the country’s vice president, had won the presidential election. But the validity of the result was thrown into doubt because of a statement minutes earlier by a…
