MASKWACIS, Alberta — Pope Francis offered a sweeping apology to Indigenous people on their native land in Canada on Monday, fulfilling a critical demand of many of the survivors of church-run residential schools that became gruesome centers of abuse, forced assimilation, cultural devastation and death for over a century. “I humbly beg forgiveness for the […]
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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Ukrainian soldiers in a village retaken from Russia near the border of Mykolaiv and Kherson Oblast.Credit…Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times ON THE BORDER OF THE KHERSON REGION, Ukraine — The road to Russian-occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine passes through a no-man’s land of charred wheat fields and cratered villages. The tails of rockets […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
In this image provided by his family, Maksym Butkevych is shown between his parents, Yevheniia and Oleksandr. Mr. Butkevych was captured in June and is now a prisoner of war held by Russia.Credit…via Oleksandr Butkevych Maksym Butkevych made his name in Ukraine as a journalist and human rights activist, campaigning on behalf of refugees and […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Workers unloaded sacks of grain at a market in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last month.Credit…Eduardo Soteras/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images NAIROBI, Kenya — The effects of the war in Ukraine have reverberated across the world, and that is especially the case in Africa where the blockage of grain exports from Ukraine has stoked soaring wheat prices […]
Russia and Ukraine Reach Grain Deal: Live Updates
Grain bins storing corn, wheat, sunflower and soybeans in Boryspil, Ukraine, in May. Credit…Nicole Tung for The New York Times BRUSSELS — There are many moving parts to the grain deal Russia and Ukraine reached, which officials didn’t think was even possible until last week, not least because the war is continuing and trust between […]
Ukraine Live Updates: European Nations Are Asked to Immediately Start Rationing Natural Gas
Warning of possible further disruptions to Russian fuel exports, including “a complete stop of Russian gas deliveries,” the European Commission is asking E.U. member states to adopt a strict energy consumption plan. The plan would need the backing of national governments to move forward.
UK Tops 40 Celsius For the First Time: Heat Wave Live Updates
Two months ago, France experienced its hottest May on record, with record highs in some cities. Last month, France was blistered again, by a spring heat wave that also affected Spain, Italy and other countries. Then, this month, Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe suffered during a spell of extreme heat. Now temperatures across […]
Latest Ukraine-Russia War News: Live Updates
Yana Muravinets has helped evacuate more than 2,500 people from the Mykolaiv area while working with the Red Cross, though many people have chosen to stay. The first person Yana Muravinets tried to persuade to leave her home near Ukraine’s front lines was a young woman who was five months pregnant. She did not want […]