Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. 2022 was the year that the contours of the post-pandemic world started to heave into view. Critical aspects of domestic and international politics were reordered.…
Foreign Affairs BlackRock will be creating a roadmap for reconstruction for Ukraine. Photo of Zelensky meeting with Fink (Image courtesy of the President of Ukraine's Official Website) Ukraine has a new Western backer. It’s not a nation-state, or a military contractor. It’s the financial firm BlackRock. Ukraine announced Wednesday that…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has mobilized a group of 10,200 soldiers in Belarus, according to Ukrainian intelligence, as the war in Ukraine heads into its 308th day. The Russian leader has sparked speculation in the past that he may ask his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, to start a new front…
December 22, 2022 - 11:00AM WSJ President Biden announced a $1.85 billion arms package for Ukraine during a joint news conference in Washington with the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and said, “You will never stand alone.” Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Read More
Moscow said Monday it had foiled a new Ukrainian drone attack on a strategic bomber military base hundreds of kilometres from their joint border, as Kyiv called for Russia’s ouster from the United Nations. Russia said it had downed the drone at Engels, a base for the country’s strategic aircraft…
A call to peace is traditionally the focus of the pope's message at Christmas. VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Sunday appealed for an end to the "senseless" war in Ukraine, in his traditional Christmas Day message broadcast around the world. The head of the Catholic Church addressed thousands of people…
By EMMANUEL YASHIM King Felipe VI MADRID- Spain’s King Felipe VI has denounced the Russian war against Ukraine and its consequences in his Christmas speech to the nation. The conflict has “already caused a level of destruction and ruin that is hard to imagine,” the monarch said in his Christmas…