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The private Russian military force, which has close ties to President Vladimir Putin and has been used in war zones across the world, is expanding its presence in Ukraine. https://ift.tt/OA2Gi9a https://ift.tt/vnpWiUY World New York Times March 30, 2022 at 08:00PMWhat is the Wagner Group?
Eighty-three percent of Russians said they approved of Mr. Putin’s actions, up from 69 percent in January, according to an independent pollster in Moscow. https://ift.tt/7CqrYH2 https://ift.tt/OjzJy4b World New York Times March 30, 2022 at 08:00PMFaced with foreign pressure, Russians rally around Putin, poll shows.
The Kremlin spokesman also played down the prospect of an April meeting between Presidents Vladimir V. Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky. https://ift.tt/6s8bvBz https://ift.tt/weum3s9 World New York Times March 30, 2022 at 08:00PMMoscow calls U.S. intelligence on Putin’s military advice a ‘complete misunderstanding.’
Roman Abramovich, sanctioned owner of the Chelsea Football Club, mysteriously showed up at the talks between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul, and is said to be playing an unofficial role. https://ift.tt/TDZOou8 https://ift.tt/5Zm27ui World New York Times March 28, 2022 at 08:00PMSanctioned Oligarch’s Presence Adds Intrigue to Ukraine-Russia Talks
One American official said that there “is now persistent tension” between the Russian president and his Defense Ministry. https://ift.tt/ZtTGwvJ World New York Times March 29, 2022 at 08:00PMU.S. intelligence suggests that Putin’s advisers misinformed him on Ukraine.
Ukrainian soldiers have essentially retaken, for now, the town of Irpin, the scene of fierce fighting in recent weeks. Its success shows the steep challenges Russia faces in trying to capture Ukraine’s capital. https://ift.tt/n51UI9l https://ift.tt/g3LcdpH World New York Times March 28, 2022 at 08:00PMIn Kyiv Suburb, Ukrainian Military Claims a Big Prize
The investigation suggests that the victims jumped from the seventh-floor balcony “one after the other,” the police said. https://ift.tt/Klzj5bQ https://ift.tt/IzOkW2U World New York Times March 29, 2022 at 08:00PMFamily’s Balcony Death in Switzerland Appears to Be Suicide, Police Say
A Ukrainian woman’s account of being repeatedly raped was published in The Times of London, and a member of Ukraine’s Parliament said there were “many more” such assaults. https://ift.tt/AgSXnzT https://ift.tt/R86hHwU World New York Times March 28, 2022 at 08:00PMReports of sexual violence involving Russian soldiers are multiplying, Ukrainian officials say.
A staggered lockdown on China’s commercial capital of 26 million people has sent beleaguered residents scrambling and raised fears of broader damage to the economy. https://ift.tt/t0UjOdq World New York Times March 28, 2022 at 08:00PMShanghai’s Lockdown Tests Covid-Zero Policy, and People’s Limits
The remarkable interview was still published by journalists outside of Russia, an episode that laid bare the extraordinary, and partly successful, efforts at censorship by Moscow. https://ift.tt/cn8321D https://ift.tt/RCOjtvo World New York Times March 26, 2022 at 08:00PMZelensky Gives Interview to Russian Journalists. Moscow Orders It Quashed.
The 22-year arc of the Russian president’s exercise of power is a study in audacity. https://ift.tt/C2yc6Rd https://ift.tt/USBnpM2 World New York Times March 25, 2022 at 08:00PMThe Making of Vladimir Putin
Speaking in Warsaw, President Biden described Vladimir V. Putin as a tyrant with “a craving for absolute power and control.” https://ift.tt/DBgNZqK World New York Times March 25, 2022 at 08:00PMBiden denounces Russian invasion, casting it as part of a decades-long attempt to crush democracies.
The trip by Prince William and his wife, Catherine, the duchess of Cambridge, dramatized how rapidly Queen Elizabeth II is losing her grip on distant dominions where she is still head of state. https://ift.tt/ADNQXq6 https://ift.tt/AsYiFuq World New York Times March 24, 2022 at 08:00PMGaffes and Miscues Mar a Royal Tour of a Republic-Minded Caribbean
The Russian Defense Ministry suggested its forces would concentrate on securing the eastern part of Ukraine, where Kremlin-backed separatists have long been fighting. https://ift.tt/AmbgE8y https://ift.tt/f0lnMij World New York Times March 24, 2022 at 08:00PMRussia Signals Redefined Goals in Ukraine War as Its Advances Stall
The gathering of top diplomats from Israel, the U.A.E., Bahrain and Morocco, as well as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, is a sign of how quickly Middle Eastern alliances are shifting. https://ift.tt/O6ftH8C https://ift.tt/XHZaKFA World New York Times March 24, 2022 at 08:00PMIsrael to Host 3 Arab Foreign Ministers in Historic Meeting
In a blast against “cancel culture,” he said the West is “canceling” Russia by going after “an entire thousand-year-old country, our people.” https://ift.tt/EVnfqKC https://ift.tt/Cv2WEXB World New York Times March 24, 2022 at 08:00PMPutin Goes Into Battle on a Second Front: Culture
The leaked agreement, if signed, could help the Chinese Navy block shipping routes that played a vital role in World War II. https://ift.tt/6EA3VNt https://ift.tt/tqd6JK7 World New York Times March 23, 2022 at 08:00PMChina and Solomon Islands Draft Secret Security Pact, Raising Alarm in the Pacific
Globally, BA.2 made up about 86 percent of cases reported to the W.H.O. between Feb. 16 and March 17, the agency said in a report on Tuesday. https://ift.tt/cNijWv5 https://ift.tt/U1E2Vsh World New York Times March 23, 2022 at 08:00PMThe W.H.O. says the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron is driving most cases around the world.
U.S. officials have said the Scheherezade, which is dry-docked in Italy, could be owned by the Russian leader. https://ift.tt/laXBqhx https://ift.tt/u1BWNQn World New York Times March 23, 2022 at 08:00PMRussian crew aboard a superyacht possibly linked to Putin have left their jobs, workers say.
The police, who are investigating the cause, said the people were most likely members of the same family, including an 8-year-old girl, her parents and aunt. A boy, 15, was in the hospital in critical condition. https://ift.tt/aLbXq8U https://ift.tt/nAx1cK0 World New York Times March 23, 2022 at 08:00PM4 Die After Falling From Balcony in Swiss Resort Town
The official said that Russian forces were “struggling on many fronts,” and that there were indications that some troops had been evacuated with frostbite. https://ift.tt/ohB2LXI https://ift.tt/oqdrBVR World New York Times March 21, 2022 at 08:00PMRussia’s combat force has shrunk, a Pentagon official says, reflecting casualties and other struggles.
Workers recovered identity cards, cellphones and purses from the crash site. But the plane’s steep plunge suggested there was a “minuscule” chance of any survivors, an expert said. https://ift.tt/495Nb6f World New York Times March 21, 2022 at 08:00PMNo Survivors Found in China Eastern Crash, Officials Say
Military losses have mounted, progress has slowed, and a blame game has begun among some Russian supporters of the war. https://ift.tt/SWuao7m https://ift.tt/249ivu6 World New York Times March 21, 2022 at 08:00PMAs Russia Stalls in Ukraine, Dissent Brews Over Putin’s Leadership
The crash of the Boeing plane, with more than 130 people on board, is China’s worst air disaster in more than a decade. https://ift.tt/N9dTruL https://ift.tt/K4ZJcia World New York Times March 21, 2022 at 08:00PMWhat We Know About the Crash of China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735
Aerial dogfights. Top Gun-style duels. Ukraine’s fighter pilots are badly outnumbered but have so far kept Russia from controlling the skies. https://ift.tt/Q97lecO https://ift.tt/mSouUeW World New York Times March 21, 2022 at 08:00PMHow Ukraine’s Outgunned Air Force Is Fighting Back Against Russian Jets
A powerful explosion ruined a shopping mall in Kyiv and claimed several lives, while Ukraine refused a Russian demand to surrender the devastated city of Mariupol. https://ift.tt/uYdBF1k https://ift.tt/xIaKSTp World New York Times March 20, 2022 at 08:00PMRussians Pound Ukrainian Cities, as Biden Rallies Anti-Kremlin Alliance
An hour after it took off, the flight turned horribly wrong, according to data from Flightradar24. https://ift.tt/YH84bLj World New York Times March 20, 2022 at 08:00PMThe China Eastern plane descended more than 20,000 feet in just over a minute.
The Kremlin has used a barrage of increasingly outlandish falsehoods to prop up its overarching claim that the invasion of Ukraine is justified. https://ift.tt/nzUBhgi https://ift.tt/yiPUVlJ World New York Times March 19, 2022 at 08:00PMTruth Is Another Front in Putin’s War
A critical share of the world’s food and fertilizer is stuck in Russia and Ukraine, sending global prices soaring and foreshadowing a rise in world hunger. https://ift.tt/knJqZmK https://ift.tt/SDdE1We World New York Times March 19, 2022 at 08:00PMUkraine War Threatens to Cause a Global Food Crisis
Many of them have been streaming into Armenia, where they can work I.T. jobs remotely, at least for a while. At cafes in the capital, Yerevan, the exiles try to plot out new lives from their laptops. https://ift.tt/wgWy58v https://ift.tt/ETLR6wC World New York Times March 19, 2022 at 08:00PMRussia Is Losing Tens of Thousands of Outward-Looking Young Professionals
As Russian forces pushed toward Kyiv, they stormed an apartment complex in a nearby suburb and held residents hostage. Some of it was caught on camera. https://ift.tt/z1TNWBC World New York Times March 19, 2022 at 08:00PMRussian Soldiers Took Their City, Then Their Homes
Beijing is fine-tuning its virus response playbook to try to limit the cost of restrictions. But its goal of eliminating all infections could make that difficult. https://ift.tt/YeRgoFZ https://ift.tt/XKUS4bQ World New York Times March 19, 2022 at 08:00PMAs Omicron Surges and Economy Suffers, China Tweaks ‘Zero Covid’
The rock appears in a famous legend starring a nine-tailed fox spirit. The question now is whether the fracture was a good or bad omen. https://ift.tt/12vparf https://ift.tt/BP5ezrV World New York Times March 17, 2022 at 08:00PMA ‘Killing Stone’ Broke in Japan. Is a Demon on the Loose?
A scramble of diplomatic efforts bears little fruit as Russia intensifies its attacks, including with a bombardment into a relatively unscathed part of western Ukraine. https://ift.tt/3W5mGaF https://ift.tt/CWHDKsB World New York Times March 17, 2022 at 08:00PMRussia Targets Western Ukraine as Biden Warns Xi Not to Aid Moscow
A persistent minority of Chinese scholars, journalists and citizens is warning Beijing against the risks of supporting the invasion of Ukraine. https://ift.tt/Ohvjgie https://ift.tt/bJ81mLU World New York Times March 17, 2022 at 08:00PMDefying China’s Censors to Urge Beijing to Denounce Russia’s War
The language of Russia’s invasion has been dominated by the word “Nazi” — a puzzling assertion about a country whose leader is Jewish. https://ift.tt/swYNmjH https://ift.tt/PHTatYj World New York Times March 16, 2022 at 08:00PMWhy Vladimir Putin Invokes Nazis to Justify His Invasion of Ukraine
Griner, one of the world’s best basketball players, was detained on accusations that she had hashish oil in her luggage at an airport outside of Moscow a week before Russia invaded Ukraine. https://ift.tt/5Pd9UDa https://ift.tt/JqZwDoS World New York Times March 16, 2022 at 08:00PMRussian Court Extends Brittney Griner’s Detention
The movie star and former governor of California addressed Russians and Russian soldiers, saying, “ “your lives, your limbs, your futures are being sacrificed for a senseless war.” https://ift.tt/xc6gCsN https://ift.tt/ctip4wV World New York Times March 16, 2022 at 08:00PMWhy Arnold Schwarzenegger taped an impassioned video to Russia, telling Putin: ‘Stop this war.’
Three employees of Doctors Without Borders set out to rescue the wounded in a war zone in northern Ethiopia. Their fate shows the treacherous path for many aid workers in conflict zones. https://ift.tt/MJPWsGj https://ift.tt/S1qFn5W World New York Times March 16, 2022 at 08:00PM‘Finish Them Off’: Aid Workers, Found on Battlefield, Executed by Soldiers
A couple in New Zealand found a giant growth in their garden, named it Doug and applied to the Guinness Book of World Records. Then the results of a DNA analysis came in. https://ift.tt/dkJfqSa https://ift.tt/aTNIeJU World New York Times March 16, 2022 at 08:00PMIt Could’ve Been the World’s Largest Potato, if Only It Were a Potato
The attacks in Kyiv and Kherson were aimed at inflicting “maximum losses” against Russia but not regaining territory, while the U.S. pledged $800 million more in military aid. https://ift.tt/q0bafcU https://ift.tt/wYoBClN World New York Times March 15, 2022 at 08:00PMUkrainian Forces Strike Back at Russia as Biden Sends More Firepower
A series of shifts in Russian statements about using nuclear weapons has led some analysts to believe that the Kremlin sees a nuclear exchange as a viable strategy. https://ift.tt/fQLdoKB https://ift.tt/kbxWhVd World New York Times March 15, 2022 at 08:00PMAs Russia Digs In, What’s the Risk of Nuclear War? ‘It’s Not Zero.’
The attacks in Kyiv and Kherson were aimed at inflicting “maximum losses” against Russia but not regaining territory, while the U.S. pledged $800 million more in military aid. https://ift.tt/P12QRyH https://ift.tt/wYoBClN World New York Times March 15, 2022 at 08:00PMUkrainian Forces Strike Back at Russia, as Biden Sends More Firepower
Ukraine and Russia held a new round of talks and agreed to resume them on Tuesday, as the United States warned China about helping an increasingly isolated Kremlin and expanding the conflict. https://ift.tt/bBxo90T https://ift.tt/fbMGxoT World New York Times March 13, 2022 at 08:00PMDiplomacy Quickens to Halt Ukraine War or Stop Its Expansion
The intervention by a state TV employee underscored how dissent is seeping into the public sphere in Russia, despite the Kremlin’s crackdown on anyone who challenges its official narrative of the invasion. https://ift.tt/08wqzma https://ift.tt/BioTpN5 World New York Times March 13, 2022 at 08:00PMA protester storms a live broadcast on Russia’s most-watched news show, yelling ‘Stop the war!’
Her baby also died, the news organization said. The photo captured last week has become one of the defining images of human suffering in the war. https://ift.tt/TuPRIcq https://ift.tt/IJwignG World New York Times March 13, 2022 at 08:00PMA pregnant woman photographed after a Russian strike on a maternity hospital has died, The A.P. reports.
After two years of largely containing coronavirus outbreaks, China’s “Covid zero” policies are being tested by the highly transmissible variant. https://ift.tt/M8FKmyz https://ift.tt/9rRFQEh World New York Times March 13, 2022 at 08:00PMSurge of Omicron Infections Prompts Lockdowns in China
The country’s leaders think it can shield itself from economic and diplomatic fallout and eventually be seen as a pillar of stability. https://ift.tt/aDfcAdi https://ift.tt/tD0JgxZ World New York Times March 13, 2022 at 08:00PMChina Sees at Least One Winner Emerging From Ukraine War: China
Thousands of Russians saw their comfortable, middle-class lives fade overnight with the invasion ordered by President Vladimir V. Putin. https://ift.tt/8grzH6K https://ift.tt/y0RB5z4 World New York Times March 12, 2022 at 07:00PM‘Things Will Only Get Worse.’ Putin’s War Sends Russians Into Exile.
It was the kingdom’s largest mass execution in years. In many cases, the charges involved “not a drop of blood,” a rights activist said. https://ift.tt/RLZOQ8B https://ift.tt/EP5Hxmi World New York Times March 11, 2022 at 07:00PMSaudi Arabia Puts 81 to Death, Despite Promises to Curb Executions