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A sign controls the flow of freight traffic entering from Russia at the border crossing in Luhamaa, Estonia. Last week, the head of the Estonian Parliament’s foreign affairs committee hit out at Spain for purchasing gas from Russia in March.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 23, 2026
Baltics warn Europe there’s no going back to life with Russia
The Baltic states’ shift away from Russian trade and energy dependence has put the seal on their economic integration with the rest of the EU.
People walk past buildings destroyed during Israeli strikes in Tyre, Lebanon, on April 10.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 23, 2026
Israel’s Lebanon buffer zone is a fallacy and no path to peace
Rather than taking more land where opponents will always exist, the wiser strategy is to pursue a political settlement.
Restrictions on fossil fuels, not climate change, pose the greater threat to the global food supply by raising costs and limiting fertilizer access, with the potential to increase hunger. 
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 23, 2026
War in the Gulf reveals the real risk to food security
Without fossil fuels, half the global population would suffer a severe lack of food.
A damaged U.S. Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control aircraft following an Iranian strike on the airbase, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia in this picture obtained from social media and released on March 29
WORLD
Apr 23, 2026
U.S. turns to Ukrainian counterdrone tech after Iran attacks, sources say
The deployment of Ukrainian tech shows how Kyiv has surged ahead in drone and counterdrone technologies that have been ​battle-hardened in its four-year war with Russia.
Terra Drone’s Terra A1 interceptor drone has entered active combat use in Ukraine after being deployed to a military unit tasked with countering Russian uncrewed aerial systems.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 2026
Japan-Ukraine drone tie-up sends first weapon onto battlefield
Japanese drone company Terra Drone said its Terra A1 interceptor, developed with a Ukrainian partner, has entered active combat use.
A motorcade transporting members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expert mission, escorted by the Russian military, drives along a road while leaving the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in 2023.
WORLD
Apr 22, 2026
Ukraine says some Russian missiles fly near Chernobyl, risking major incident
Since July 2024, Ukraine’s top prosecutor said radars had detected at least 92 Russian drones that flew ‌within a 5-km radius of the Chernobyl plant’s radiation shield.
Petro Hurin, now 76, was one of hundreds of thousands of ‘liquidators’ brought to clean up the aftermath of the explosion that tore apart reactor four of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine on April 26, 1986.
WORLD
Apr 21, 2026
Chernobyl first responder says few survive 40 years on
“Not a single Chernobyl person is in good ⁠health,” the 76-year-old said. “It’s death by a thousand cuts.”
An army recruitment center in Lviv, Ukraine. Assaults on military recruiters in the country almost tripled to 341 last year compared with 2024, and more than 100 have been recorded so far this year.
WORLD
Apr 21, 2026
Attacks on Ukraine draft officers soar as war fatigue deepens
Assaults on military recruiters in Ukraine almost tripled to 341 last year compared with 2024, and more than 100 have been recorded so far this year.
While Russia has not reverted to full-bore Stalinism, there is no doubt that President Vladimir Putin has made tremendous strides toward totalitarianism.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 20, 2026
How de-Stalinization may offer lessons for post-Putin Russia
This is not Stalinism yet. While thousands of dissenters have faced punishment for their “crimes” under Putin, millions rotted in Stalin’s Gulags.
Peter Magyar, who is set to become Hungary's prime minister, speaks to the media after talks between parties on preparations for the first session of the Parliament in Budapest on Friday.
WORLD
Apr 20, 2026
Hungary moves to unblock EU aid to Ukraine and tap frozen funds
Hungary has information from Ukraine “via mediation from Brussels” that Russian oil flows may resume as soon as Monday on the Druzhba pipeline.
An ambulance at the site of a mass shooting in Kyiv on Saturday
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 19, 2026
Six die in Kyiv shooting; police kill suspect
Ukrainian officials said the shooting was being investigated as terrorism, but offered no ‌motive.
Oil pump jacks outside Almetyevsk in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan in June 2023
WORLD
Apr 18, 2026
U.S. renews Russian oil waiver after pressure from countries dealing with Iran war price shocks 
U.S. lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle accused the government of going easy on Moscow ​as its war on Ukraine grinds on.
U.S. allies should resist distancing themselves from Washington over Donald Trump and instead strengthen long-term economic and defense ties with the U.S. to safeguard their interests against emerging global rivals.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 16, 2026
The case for ‘hardened engagement’ with America
Allowing a distaste for one U.S. president (no matter how bombastic) to sever the ties that bind the free world is not only bad policy, it’s a recipe for strategic irrelevance.
Men sit along the seaside near an unofficial camp for displaced people in Beirut on Tuesday.
WORLD / Society
Apr 16, 2026
Forced displacements to soar by 4.2 million by 2027, aid group warns
The numbers do not include those affected by the war in the Middle East, the agency said.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban attends a campaign event in Budapest amid the country's parliamentary election on Sunday.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 15, 2026
After Orban, Hungary faces an even harder battle
Center-right Tisza’s victory in Hungary’s election shows that even a highly entrenched new-right regime can be defeated at the polls.
Ukrainian Chief of Staff Kyrylo Budanov
WORLD / Politics
Apr 14, 2026
From war hero to politics, Zelenskyy’s top aide steps out of the shadows
The question circulating in Kyiv’s corridors of power and beyond is how far Kyrylo Budanov will go in wielding his new authority as head of the presidential office.
A radiation protection engineer works in front of the sarcophagus covering Chernobyl's destroyed fourth reactor beneath the New Safe Confinement (NSC), at the nuclear power plant on April 9.
ENVIRONMENT
Apr 14, 2026
Chernobyl containment at risk of ‘catastrophic’ collapse, Greenpeace warns
Kyiv has accused Russia of repeatedly targeting the site during Moscow’s full-scale invasion, including in a strike last year that pierced its modern, outer protective shell.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a joint news briefing in Kyiv on July 2, 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 14, 2026
Hungary vote removes Ukraine’s staunchest foe in EU
Viktor Orban — a nationalist who maintained warm ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin — systematically opposed Brussels’ efforts to support Ukraine
An Odd Systems first-person-view drone with a weighted dummy explosive attached awaits a test flight at an undisclosed location in Ukraine on Nov. 6, 2025.
WORLD
Apr 13, 2026
He made a gadget to amuse pets. Then he turned to killer drones.
The founders of Petcube have moved on to a new idea that reflects an across-the-board transformation of Ukraine’s civilian technology industry into a hub of military contracting.
Pedestrians cross Enghelab Square in Tehran, near a billboard showing Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader, in the Iranian capital on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 12, 2026
The Indo-Pacific price of a hasty war with Tehran
The allies are not abandoning the U.S.; they are recoiling from a war that lacks a defined strategy.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.

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