War
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World
Battered and Strained by War, Ukraine’s Economy Adapts to Survive
After 10 months of Russian destruction, Ukraine’s economy shrank by 30 percent. But companies have packed up and moved, switched…
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World
Putin Calls a 36-Hour Cease-Fire, but Ukraine and U.S. Are Skeptical
The cease-fire would coincide with the Eastern Orthodox Christmas on Saturday, but Kremlin adversaries and some analysts call it a…
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World
Ukraine Keeps Downing Russian Drones, but Price Tag Is High
When costly missiles take out cheap drones, the real winner over time may be the country that spends less.
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Books
In the ‘Cozy Catastrophe’ Novel, the End of the World Is Not So Bad
Originally published in 1939, “The Hopkins Manuscript,” by the British writer R.C. Sherriff, inaugurated a genre of post-apocalyptic fiction in…
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World
Clergymen or Spies? Churches Become Tools of War in Ukraine
Ukrainian officials are cracking down on a branch of the Russian Orthodox Church that they describe as a subversive force…
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News
Tony Vaccaro, 100, Dies; Photographed War From a Soldier’s Perspective
After carrying a camera across battlefields, he became a magazine photographer known for his images of famous subjects like Georgia…
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World
100 Years Since the Birth of the Soviet Union, in Pictures
It is the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia says he wants to remedy by…
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World
Ukraine and Russia Battle for a Gateway City in the East
Recapturing Kreminna, in eastern Ukraine, would be a step further in Ukraine’s campaign to retake major cities that Russia seized…
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World
When Cultural Heritage Becomes a Battlefront
Against the appalling human cost of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its cultural toll may feel insignificant. But tallying the damage…
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World
North Korean Drones Breach Border, Triggering Alarms in South
South Korean war planes fired warning shots, while the authorities briefly prohibited commercial planes from taking off at two international…