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When war in Ukraine broke out in 2022, Olena Kutsa was five months pregnant. As Russian troops rolled and explosions echoed across the country, the Head of Emergency Response for the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, who was five-months pregnant, left her home – not knowing If she would ever return. Olena moved into her office […]

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch France‘s top diplomat Monday requested that U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner no longer be allowed direct access to members of the French government after he skipped a meeting to discuss […]

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On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch South Korea has asked the Russian embassy in Seoul to remove a large banner that read “victory will be ours” ahead of the fourth anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion […]

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has rejected an offer from Donald Trump to send a hospital ship to the autonomous Danish territory, which the US president has previously expressed […]

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Hungary has threatened to block a new package of European Union sanctions against Russia and stall efforts to help Ukraine, demanding the immediate resumption of Russian oil deliveries. This […]

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch The French foreign minister announced he will summon U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner over comments related to the killing of the French far-right activist Quentin Deranque. Jean-Noel Barrot was reacting […]

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Seven Chinese tourists and a bus driver are feared dead after a tourist bus driving across a frozen stretch of Lake Baikal in Russia’s Siberia plunged into the water […]

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch A new Kenyan intelligence report says that 1,000 Kenyans were recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine after being misled with false promises of jobs in Russia before being […]

Join the Miguel Delaney: Inside Football newsletter and get behind-the-scenes access and unrivalled insight Join the Miguel Delaney: Inside Football newsletter Join the Miguel Delaney: Inside Football newsletter Jan Timman, the revered Dutch chess grandmaster once dubbed “the best of the West” during an era of Soviet supremacy, has died at 74, the Dutch Chess […]