Conflict

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 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 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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COLOMBO - Two ground staff at an international cricket stadium in Sri Lanka were killed in an elephant attack, officials said Wednesday (8). The two workers were heading home on Tuesday (7) evening when they were attacked outside the…
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By Abdi Latif Dahir NAIROBI — The family was startled awake by a loud bang in the middle of the night on the gate of their home on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Police officers barged in without a warrant,…
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WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, pledged at a virtual summit to improve cooperation but offered no concrete action after 3 1/2 hours of talks. In separate statements after the talks ended Monday (15)…
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GENEVA - Syria overtook Afghanistan last year as the country with the highest number of recorded casualties from landmines and explosive remnants of war, a monitoring group said Wednesday (10). The Landmine Monitor said Syria had…
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By Robbie Corey-Boulet ADDIS ABABA - Sixteen Ethiopian staff working for the United Nations were in detention Tuesday (9) after government raids targeting ethnic Tigrayans, the United Nations said, as foreign envoys scramble to end the…
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By Declan Walsh NAIROBI — As the civil war in Ethiopia draws closer to the capital and Africa’s second most populous nation continues to fracture, a report by the top UN human rights body released Wednesday (3) offered evidence that all…
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