By Michael Schwirtz KYIV — Russia’s military build-up on the Ukrainian border is easy to see. Satellite images show ever-growing patches of snow-covered tanks expanding along the frontier, and a stream of Russian TikTok posts records the…
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By Katrin Bennhold BERLIN — The United States and its NATO allies are moving to bulk up their military commitments in the Baltics and Eastern Europe as the standoff with Russia over Ukraine deepens. Denmark is sending fighter jets to…
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By Zinara Rathnayake COLOMBO - When Adnan Sheikh took his family on holiday to Sri Lanka last October, he booked them into a hotel for two weeks in Sarakkuwa beach, just off the coast from where the X-Press Pearl cargo ship caught fire and…
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By Julian E. Barnes WASHINGTON — As the United States issued warnings last month about the Russian troops on Ukraine’s borders and President Joe Biden threatened President Vladimir Putin with sanctions if he launched an invasion,…
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By Jane Arraf, Sangar Khaleel and Eric Schmitt BAGHDAD — American ground forces have joined the fight to retake control of a prison in northeast Syria where Islamic State group fighters are holding hundreds of boys hostage, the Pentagon…
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By Choe Sang Hun SEOUL — North Korea began the new year by convening a meeting for the ruling Workers’ Party during which very little was said about the United States. That ominous silence didn’t last long. Kim Jong-un, the country’s…
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By Declan Walsh OUAGADOUGOU— The military seized power in Burkina Faso on Monday (24), ousting the country’s democratically elected president after mutinous soldiers stormed his home, in the latest of a series of military coups in African…
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By Armel Baily OUAGADOUGOU - Mutinous troops in restive Burkina Faso arrested President Roch Marc Christian Kabore on Monday (24) and detained him in army barracks a day after staging an uprising, security sources told AFP. Soldiers at…
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By Jacob Bernstein PARIS - Thierry Mugler, the outrageous, genre-busting French designer who dominated European runways in the late 1980s and early 1990s, died Sunday (23). He was 73. His death was announced on his brand’s official…
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By Stephanie Nolen LUSAKA, Zambia — There are few nurses in the Zambian capital with the skills and experience of Alex Mulumba, who works in the operating room at a critical care hospital. But he has recently learned, through a barrage of…
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