Global News
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Facebook eases rules to allow violent speech against 'Russian invaders'
The policy decision from Facebook and Instagram's parent Meta was met immediately with controversy, but the social media giant defended its change as 'allowances for political expression'
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At US eateries, love for Ukraine, and wrath by proxy for Russia
With the war an ocean away, restaurants have become something of a culinary frontline for Americans to channel support for Kyiv by queuing for a seat and a pastry — while hoping to inflict a bit of pain on Moscow, if only by proxy
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How a playground for the rich could undermine sanctions on Russian oligarchs
At least 38 businessmen or officials linked to Putin own dozens of properties in Dubai collectively valued at more than $314 million, according to previously unreported data compiled by the nonprofit Center for Advanced Defense Studies. For now, those sanctioned can count themselves lucky
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Blocked from global internet, Russia plunges into digital isolation
As Putin has waged war on Ukraine, a digital barricade went up between Russia and the world, with both Russian authorities and multinational internet companies builting the wall with breathtaking speed. It has ruptured an open internet that was once seen as helping to integrate Russia into the global community
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First pig heart transplant patient dies after two months
The procedure had raised hopes that advances in cross-species organ donation could one day solve the chronic shortage of human organs available for donation
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Everyone wants to air Ukrainian president Zelenskyy's hit TV series
Since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, broadcasters in 20 countries, including channels like Britain's Channel 4, Greece's ANT1 and Romania's PRO TV have rushed to join those who have already snapped up the rights to "Servant of the People", which first aired in Ukraine in 2015
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Germany rejects complete ban on Russian gas, oil; calls for a moral stand grow louder
A group of climate activists, academics, authors and scientists published an open letter to the German government on Wednesday demanding a complete ban on Russian energy, reasoning that "we are all financing this war"
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For this Russian journalist, the family trade is dissidence
Zoya Svetova, 62, is part of a Moscow family with a history of almost a century of activism, and government-imposed punishment, in Russia. She was interviewed before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and again on March 2
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Quoting Churchill and Shakespeare, Volodymyr Zelenskyy vows no surrender
Addressing the Britain's Parliament, clad in his now-famous military fatigue T-shirt, Zelenskyy echoed Winston Churchill's famous words of no surrender to the same chamber at the dawn of World War II as Britain faced a looming onslaught from Nazi Germany
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Lacking oversight, Telegram thrives in Ukraine disinformation battle
Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged his armed forces to surrender. The message was not authentic but reached 20,000 followers of the fake account
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UN atomic watchdog says contact lost with Chernobyl nuclear data systems
On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine and seized the defunct plant, site of a 1986 disaster that killed hundreds and spread radioactive contamination west across Europe, and has since had over 200 technical staff and guards trapped, working for 13 days straight