Posts by Newsmaker

Q&A: Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Discusses Accountability for Putin’s War Crimes

Q&A: Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Discusses Accountability for Putin’s War Crimes

Since Russia invaded Ukraine last February, Ukrainian prosecutors have documented more than 80,000 war crimes committed by Russia forces, as...

Russian Court Fines Wikipedia Again for Article About War in Ukraine

Russian Court Fines Wikipedia Again for Article About War in Ukraine

A Russian court on Thursday fined the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, two million rubles ($24,510) for not deleting what...

Latest in Ukraine: Russian Missile Strike Kills 1, Injures 23 in Southern Ukraine

Latest in Ukraine: Russian Missile Strike Kills 1, Injures 23 in Southern Ukraine

One dead, 23 wounded in Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s Mykolaiv – officials NATO allies, partners have given 1,550 armored...

Ukraine Well-Positioned for Post-War Recovery, Supporters Say

Ukraine Well-Positioned for Post-War Recovery, Supporters Say

The humanitarian suffering created by Russia’s war on Ukraine has been accompanied by an economic shock that resonates globally, driving...

Artificial Intelligence Can Create, But Lacks Creativity, Say Critics

Artificial Intelligence Can Create, But Lacks Creativity, Say Critics

Artificial intelligence, or AI, could potentially transform arts and entertainment, from music to movies, but it is also raising concerns....

Jailed Kremlin Foe Navalny Says He May Face Life Sentence

Jailed Kremlin Foe Navalny Says He May Face Life Sentence

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny said Wednesday that he was facing new extremism and terrorism charges that could keep...

Turkish President Cancels Campaign Stops Over Health Issue

Turkish President Cancels Campaign Stops Over Health Issue

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced he was canceling a day of election campaigning Wednesday to rest at home, a...

Key US Commander ‘Very Confident’ Ahead of Expected Ukrainian Offensive

Key US Commander ‘Very Confident’ Ahead of Expected Ukrainian Offensive

Ukraine’s military forces have all the equipment, weapons and ammunition they need to launch their long-awaited spring offensive, according to...

Ukrainian Startups in Poland Throw Lifeline to Ukraine’s War Effort

Ukrainian Startups in Poland Throw Lifeline to Ukraine’s War Effort

In the first nine months of Russia’s war in Ukraine, a Polish business group says, Ukrainians started 14,000 companies in...

EU Agency Calls for Cuts in Pesticide Use as Monitors Find Excessive Levels

EU Agency Calls for Cuts in Pesticide Use as Monitors Find Excessive Levels

The European Union’s environment agency on Wednesday urged member states to reduce pesticide use over concern that sales of harmful...

Russia Appoints New Peacekeeping Head in Nagorno-Karabakh 

Russia Appoints New Peacekeeping Head in Nagorno-Karabakh 

Russia said on Wednesday that it had appointed one of its most senior army commanders to lead a peacekeeping force...

Amid Nuclear Threats, Ukrainians Mark 37th Anniversary of Chernobyl Disaster

Amid Nuclear Threats, Ukrainians Mark 37th Anniversary of Chernobyl Disaster

Workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Wednesday marked the 37th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster amid...

US, Europe Look for Ways to Increase Ukraine Grain Exports

US, Europe Look for Ways to Increase Ukraine Grain Exports

U.S. and European officials on Wednesday toured Ukraine’s southern port of Izmail, a facility that is important in bringing Ukrainian...

UK Blocks Microsoft-Activision Gaming Deal, Biggest in Tech

UK Blocks Microsoft-Activision Gaming Deal, Biggest in Tech

British antitrust regulators on Wednesday blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard, thwarting the biggest tech...

Pope Allows Women to Vote at Upcoming Bishops’ Meeting

Pope Allows Women to Vote at Upcoming Bishops’ Meeting

Pope Francis has decided to give women the right to vote at an upcoming meeting of bishops, an historic reform...

South Africa’s President Walks Back Vow to Leave ICC

South Africa’s President Walks Back Vow to Leave ICC

South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa backtracked on remarks he made Tuesday that the country would withdraw from the International Criminal...

Latest in Ukraine: Russian Reconnaissance Aircraft Spotted over Baltic, Barents Seas

Latest in Ukraine: Russian Reconnaissance Aircraft Spotted over Baltic, Barents Seas

Latest Developments   Three Russian aircraft intercepted over Baltic Sea by Germany and Britain  British Defense Ministry says heavy short-range combat...

‘Be a Real Man’: Russian Army Launches Recruitment Drive

‘Be a Real Man’: Russian Army Launches Recruitment Drive

A slick new video that has gone viral on Russian social media platforms shows a taxi driver, a security guard...

Study Details Differences Between Deep Interiors of Mars and Earth

Study Details Differences Between Deep Interiors of Mars and Earth

Mars is Earth’s next-door neighbor in the solar system — two rocky worlds with differences down to their very core,...

Tobacco Giant to Pay $629 Million to Settle Charges it Violated US Sanctions on North Korea

Tobacco Giant to Pay $629 Million to Settle Charges it Violated US Sanctions on North Korea

In the largest penalty of its kind, tobacco giant British American Tobacco has agreed to pay U.S. authorities nearly $630...

Long Days of Gravediggers Tell Story of Ukraine’s War Dead

Long Days of Gravediggers Tell Story of Ukraine’s War Dead

The graves are dug in the morning. Four plots, each two meters deep in the section of a cemetery in...

Investigators Say Syrian Suspect Sought Items to Attack ‘Civilian Targets’

Investigators Say Syrian Suspect Sought Items to Attack ‘Civilian Targets’

German authorities have arrested a Syrian man on suspicion of planning to carry out an explosives attack motivated by Islamic...