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Investigators on Monday launched the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, a key step in investigating whether Russia’s war in Ukraine meets the legal definition of the crime of aggression. The center, based in The Hague, is tasked with providing a mechanism for officials…

Comment on this storyComment KYIV, Ukraine — Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine and illegally annexed in 2014, has been targeted in repeated drone attacks against naval targets, railway lines and oil depots. Moscow accused Kyiv last month of firing British Storm Shadow missiles at a…

Comment on this storyComment Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen jets to Beijing this week in a test of the Biden administration’s ability to improve relations with China while pursuing an economic strategy aimed at reducing U.S. companies’ reliance on Chinese factories. Her trip comes as China’s economic rebound from its…

A graduation photo by Song, who graduated from Shandong Normal University, portrays her relationship with the school, herself and others. (Song) Updated July 2, 2023 at 7:09 p.m. EDT|Published June 30, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. EDT Comment on this storyComment They are not your average graduation photos. There are no…

Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s Wagner Group will pause hiring mercenaries for a month as its forces move to Belarus, scaling down the group’s activities after it aborted a mutiny attempt outside Moscow last month. A Telegram channel the company uses for hiring said Wagner’s forces won’t fight in Ukraine as they shift…

Comment on this storyComment NEW DELHI — A court in southern India has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Twitter that challenged broad censorship orders issued by Indian authorities, marking a victory for an increasingly assertive Indian government that has sought to bring foreign technology companies to heel and corral social…

Comment on this storyComment Protests in France over the police killing of a teenager were calmer overnight, authorities said, though there were pockets of violence across the country, including a mayor reporting an attack on his family home. Vincent Jeanbrun, the mayor of L’Hay-les-Roses, south of Paris, said that around…