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In brief Access to the global internet in Iran has hovered at roughly one 1 cent of pre-war levels. A slow intranet provides a few basic services and enables access to state-controlled news and messaging platforms. Iran's government-enforced, almost complete internet shutdown is now the longest nationwide outage ever recorded…

World Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa overnight Monday, killing a 30-year-old woman, her two-year-old daughter and another woman, while damaging residential buildings and energy infrastructure, the regional governor said. Another woman also killed, residential buildings and kindergarten hit Thomson Reuters · Posted: Apr…

By Charles Kennedy - Apr 06, 2026, 9:29 AM CDT The key Russian oil export terminal at Novorossiysk was on fire early on Monday following an overnight drone attack, as Ukraine intensifies strikes on Russia’s oil infrastructure to reduce its export capabilities amid surging oil prices.  The attack comes as…

Last updated: 03/04 - 10:19 In Lviv, families are attending workshops during Holy Week to learn the wax‑and‑dye technique, while the city’s Pysanka Museum draws visitors eager to reconnect with a tradition that dates back 2,000 to 3,000 years. The custom matters beyond Easter itself, as many Ukrainians now see…

Cristina Chi - Philstar.com April 3, 2026 | 2:58pm MANILA, Philippines — Before Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine in June 2023 — flooding a whole city and displacing thousands — its state media ran a curious online campaign: it accused Ukraine of plotting to destroy the dam…

April 2 News Duration 8:57 As Iran strikes countries across the Persian Gulf, Ukraine is making defence agreements in the Middle East. Andrew Chang explains how Ukraine’s expertise in fighting Iranian-designed Shahed drones in its war with Russia could reshape the war in the Middle East and help regional allies…

In a paper published online March 18 in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, paleontologists described a new species of harvestman found in two pieces of Eocene-aged amber from Ukraine and the Baltic region. An artist’s reconstruction of Balticolasma wunderlichi male. Image credit: Joshua Knüppe. The newly-identified harvestman is the first…

Students across Russia are being offered large financial incentives to join drone units fighting in Ukraine as operators and engineers, while companies in Russia's central Ryazan region have been given quotas to sign up workers for the army, documents show...Read More

Ukrainian emergency workers and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from a maternity hospital damaged by an airstrike in Mariupol, Ukraine in 2022. Alamy Stock Photo War Babies The Journal is in Kyiv reporting on the war in Ukraine. LAST UPDATE | 1 Apr Niall O'Connor Reporting from Ukraine. ON…

The Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday its forces have seized full control of the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine, as Kyiv continues a campaign of drone strikes against Russian energy infrastructure. Russia has long held more than 99% of Luhansk, one of four Ukrainian regions Moscow said it annexed…