Comment on this storyComment TORETSK, Ukraine — Everything was set for a nighttime mortar attack by a Ukrainian special forces team close to the Russian front line. A four-man squad assembled a fire base in the blasted remains of a kindergarten in a village near here, about 18 miles south…
July 9, 2023 at 1:00 a.m. EDT Hussein Shibly looks out Saturday from his home, which was damaged in the Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank this month. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post) Comment on this storyComment JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank — Hussein…
Comment on this storyComment BEIJING — Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen, concluding a high-stakes diplomatic mission to China on Sunday, said her talks with Chinese leaders had marked a “step forward” in efforts to stabilize relations between the world’s two largest economies. Yellen acknowledged “significant disagreements” that still divide the…
As Russia’s war in Ukraine reaches 500 days, Zelensky used Snake Island to rally Ukrainians. “I want to thank this place, a place of victory, every one of our fighters for these five hundred days,” he said in a video posted early Saturday that showed him at the island, a…
“People are suffering greatly due to landmines,” Mr. Lobov told UN News, adding that experts have reported that almost one third of the country is contaminated with unexploded ordnance. “Many adults and children have died,” he said. “We have the highest rate of such losses in the world. No one…
Experts continue to debate where insurance belongs in climate financing. Credit: Peter Richards/IPS Opinion by Jamie Cummings (chapel hill, nc, usa) Friday, July 07, 2023 Inter Press Service The 2023 Climate Conference COP27 in Sharm put loss and damage clearly on the political agenda with the agreement to set up a…
A view of the Canoas Wind Farm, owned by Neoenergia, the Brazilian subsidiary of Spain’s Iberdrola. Several wind farms with hundreds of turbines have already been built in the mountains of the Seridó mountain range, which vertically cross the state of Paraíba, in the Northeast region of Brazil, and are…
Credit: UNICEF/Aleksey Filippov Opinion by Roland Bathon (berlin) Friday, July 07, 2023 Inter Press Service BERLIN, Jul 07 (IPS) – The Wagner uprising – despite its short duration – has demonstrated the vulnerability of Putin’s power system. In the past, the oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin seemed like a dark, mysterious figure somewhere…
Aerial view of the town of Soufriere in the south of Saint Lucia. Sea level rise is threatening coastal areas of small island developing states (SIDS) in the Caribbean. Credit: Alison Kentish/IPS by Alison Kentish (soufriere, saint lucia) Friday, July 07, 2023 Inter Press Service SOUFRIERE, SAINT LUCIA, Jul 07 (IPS)…
The war began on 24 February 2022, and the UN’s Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) has confirmed that more than 9,000 civilians, including over 500 children, have been killed since then, though the real number could be much higher. “Today we mark another grim milestone in the war…
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