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Ukraine provides a bit of good news amidst a global food shortage : NPR
Ukraine says it is ready to resume grain shipments from its southern ports that stopped with the onset of the war with Russia. The grain could alleviate a global food shortage. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: For the first time since Russia invaded five months ago, Ukraine is loading grain, cooking oil […]
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Russia to drop out of International Space Station after 2024
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will pull out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost, the country’s new space chief said Tuesday amid high tensions between Moscow and the West over the fighting in Ukraine. The announcement, while not unexpected, throws into question […]
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Iran Ramps Up Drone Exports, Signaling Global Ambitions
Iran has made steady advances in the design and production of military drones in recent years, and has stepped up their transfer to militant groups across the Middle East as it seeks to shift the dynamics of battlefields from Yemen to Gaza. Those efforts have now extended far beyond the […]
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Samuel Alito mocks foreign critics of repealing Roe v. Wade in Rome speech
Alito — sporting a new beard — gave the talk that was largely dedicated to protecting religious liberty last week, but it was only publicized on Thursday by Notre Dame Law School. “Religious liberty is under attack in many places because it is dangerous to those who want to hold […]
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ISS: Russia says it will quit International Space Station in 2024
“You know that we are working within the framework of international cooperation at the International Space Station. Undoubtedly, we will fulfil all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave the station after 2024 has been made,” Borisov told Putin in the Kremlin-issued readout. But Robyn Gatens, director […]
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Russia says it will quit the International Space Station amid Ukraine war
Russia said Tuesday it will withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024, signaling the end of a joint project that has served as a key symbol of post-Cold War cooperation with Washington. The move comes as Moscow and the West clash over the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, and casts […]
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Myanmar Executes Four Pro-Democracy Activists, Defying Foreign Leaders
Myanmar’s military regime announced Monday that it had executed four pro-democracy activists, the first executions in the Southeast Asian nation in more than three decades and what was seen as the latest attempt to instill fear in a resistance movement that has continued to battle the junta since it seized […]
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On U.S. Foreign Policy, Biden Acts a Lot Like Trump
WASHINGTON — A fist bump and meeting with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. Tariffs and export controls on China. Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. American troops out of Afghanistan. More than a year and a half into the tenure of President Biden, his administration’s approach to strategic priorities […]
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W.H.O. Declares Monkeypox Spread a Global Health Emergency
For the second time in two years, the World Health Organization has taken the extraordinary step of declaring a global emergency. This time the cause is monkeypox, which has spread in just a few weeks to dozens of countries and infected tens of thousands of people. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, […]
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Russia will allow Ukraine to export grain in U.N.-brokered bid to alleviate global food crisis
The United Nations, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey on Friday agreed to allow the export of Ukrainian grain in a bid to alleviate a global food crisis. Ukraine is one of the world’s biggest grain exporters, but the Russian invasion has blocked shipments, sending the price of food soaring and plunging […]
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