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Donetsk People's Republic artillery. Social media capture We don’t know for sure how many casualties the Russian and Ukrainian armed forces have suffered as Russia’s wider war in Ukraine enters its fourth month. There are educated guesses, wild claims, politically motivated assertions and obvious propaganda—but few clearly credible official figures.…

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The first event for the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series begins this week in London, and with it more and more golfers are withdrawing from the PGA Tour. With each name added to LIV Golf’s growing roster, more cover is provided to the group of defecting golfers who remain lockstep in…

The Russian embassy took note of the article “Russia-Ukraine war a threat to Africa’s economy” (Mail & Guardian, 20 May 2022). Let’s try to figure out whether Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine is really a threat to the economy of African countries. There’s clearly a certain interest to blame…

Thousands march in protest against Russia in Riga, Latvia, on May 20.Gints Ivuskans/The Globe and Mail Almost every independent Russian journalist had a breaking point this year. For the dwindling band of Russia-based writers at the online newspaper Meduza, it was a new law threatening a 15-year jail sentence for…

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images A conservative group behind the recent push to ban books on LGBTQ+ topics from public libraries has recently entered the next phase of their mission: pushing public school libraries across the country to accept book donations from conservative publishing companies that promote white supremacist, homophobic,…

Venezuelan propaganda has made the world believe that the economic and humanitarian crises in the country are due to American sanctions. That claim is a blatant lie. I wake up at 8 a.m. My wife tells me we’re out of diapers, so I go to a mini-market only a two-minute…

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said in a guest essay Tuesday evening in The New York Times that he’s decided to provide the Ukrainians with more advanced rocket systems and munitions that will enable them to more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield. The expectation is that Ukraine could…

Genocide scholars and rights advocates are calling for the resignation of a top United Nations human rights official after her visit to Xinjiang ended with her repeating, rather than denouncing, Chinese government propaganda about an ongoing genocide there. Why it matters: The visit illustrates how the UN is caught between…