Moscow faced global revulsion and accusations of war crimes Monday after the Russian retreat from the outskirts of Kyiv revealed streets strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians, some of whom had seemingly been killed at close range. The grisly images of battered bodies left out in the… Read More
WHO: 99% of world’s population breathes low-quality air
The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year. The World Health Organization,… Read More
Kremlin faces pushback for ordering Europeans to use rubles
Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted Thursday that the country’s natural gas must be paid for with rubles, a demand apparently intended to help bolster the Russian currency but one that European leaders say they will not comply with because it violates the terms of contracts and sanctions. Putin said Russia… Read More
Biden’s biggest disaster just got even worse
The Taliban promised a kinder, gentler rule when they seized power last summer – with more freedom for everyone, especially women. What happened next has been perfectly predictable. The hardline religious extremists just reneged on a promise to allow girls to return to school past the sixth grade, claiming they… Read More
New study: Pandemic ravaged teenagers’ mental health
More than 4 in 10 U.S. high school students said they felt persistently sad or hopeless during the pandemic, according to government findings released Thursday. Several medical groups have warned that pandemic isolation from school closures and lack of social gatherings has taken a toll on young people’s mental health…. Read More
Some Russian troops leave Chernobyl after radiation exposure
Russian troops began leaving the Chernobyl nuclear plant after soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches at the highly contaminated site, Ukraine’s state power company said Thursday as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts. Energoatom, the company, gave no immediate details on the condition… Read More
What Russia’s brain drain mean for the US and the world
Russia’s tech workers are looking for safer and more productive professional pastures. By one estimate, up to 70,000 computer specialists, spooked by a sudden frost in the business and political climate, have bolted the country since Russia invaded Ukraine five weeks ago. Many more are expected to follow. Did You… Read More
Amid sanctions, seafood industry braces for job loss and fish shortage
The worldwide seafood industry is steeling itself for price hikes, supply disruptions and potential job losses as new rounds of economic sanctions on Russia make key species such as cod and crab harder to come by. The latest round of U.S. attempts to punish Russia for the invasion of Ukraine… Read More
Russian currency bounces back amid questions about sanctions’ impact
The ruble is no longer rubble. The Russian ruble by Wednesday had bounced back from the fall it took after the U.S. and European allies moved to bury the Russian economy under thousands of new sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has resorted to extreme financial… Read More
China reopens one city as Shanghai lockdown enters phase two
The city of Shanghai prepared Thursday to reopen its eastern half and shut its western half, while authorities elsewhere announced the lifting of a citywide lockdown in the province hit hardest by China’s ongoing omicron-driven coronavirus outbreak. Residents of the city of Jilin will be able to move about freely… Read More
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