2024

Five months after its surprise attack on Russia, Ukrainian forces are bloodied and demoralized by the growing threat of defeat in Kursk, a region that some want to hold at all costs while others question the point of intervening at all. The fighting is so intense that some Ukrainian commanders cannot evacuate the dead. Seven…

Hundreds of people gathered in Hong Kong on Saturday to watch the city’s first drone fireworks display, as part of a campaign to raise support and awareness for panda conservation. The 10-minute drone show included 1,000 drones, some equipped with fireworks, that flew over Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor and created images of the city’s giant…

Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely considered the architect of the country’s economic reform program, was cremated after a state funeral on Saturday, with politicians and the public mourning his death. The veteran leader, who was also credited with reaching a landmark nuclear agreement with the United States, died late Thursday at the age…

Burial societies in Sweden are seeking enough land for something they hope they will never have to do: bury thousands of people in the event of war. The research follows recommendations from the National Secretariat of the Church of Sweden, which reflect crisis preparedness guidelines from the Swedish Civil Emergency Agency (MSB) and the Swedish…

Russia’s top security agency announced on Thursday that it had arrested a number of suspects accused of involvement in an alleged Ukrainian plot to assassinate senior army officers, an announcement that comes after… A senior Russian general is killed Last week. The Federal Security Service, a major successor to the KGB and known as Russia’s…

People gathered to pray and visit mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday to mark the 20th anniversary of the massive incident. Indian Ocean tsunami The region was struck by one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. Many wept as they laid flowers at a mass grave in the village of Uli…