Your Thursday Briefing: Tanks for Ukraine
Also, China’s natural gas shortage and India’s efforts to quash a Modi documentary.
Also, China’s natural gas shortage and India’s efforts to quash a Modi documentary.
Judges connected to Iran’s clerical leaders and security services are meting out long prison terms and death sentences, in an effort to stamp out protests.
Western allies have pledged to send at least 105 tanks, far less than Ukraine says it needs, and it may be months before they join the battle.
The attack, which injured seven other people, happened on a regional train in northern Germany.
She experienced the inequities of the job firsthand in South Africa and helped build national and international unions to address them.
Ukraine’s military acknowledged a gain for Russian forces that brings them closer to encircling the strategic eastern city of Bakhmut.
Dmitri Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said that delivering American M1 Abrams and German Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine would burden Europe without strengthening the Ukrainian military.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the pope said the church should do more to end laws that criminalize same-sex relations.
The decision puts a spotlight on how Ukrainians are mourning not just the loss of life but also the loss of cultural heritage across their country.
The West African country had demanded that French troops leave. France confirmed they would be out in a month.
Washington is expected to announce plans to deliver M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, and Germany said it will send some of its Leopard 2 tanks to the battlefield.
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A 74-year-old Spanish man was detained days after American and European officials said that Russian military intelligence officers might have directed the attacks.
A 74-year-old Spanish man made and sent all of the six letter bombs himself, the authorities alleged, though the “participation or influence of other people” was not ruled out.
Tundu Lissu, a former presidential candidate, left in 2020 after he was harassed on the campaign trail. He flew home after the country’s leader lifted a ban on political rallies.
Amid renewed tensions with Russia, tourists are flocking to a decommissioned nuclear fallout shelter that Canada built to preserve its government during a nuclear war.
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Francis’ comments are the first uttered by a pope about such laws, but are consistent with his overall approach to the LGBTQ community.