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The Biden administration on Wednesday announced $300 million in military aid for Ukraine, the latest package of weapons and other military equipment that the United States has been sending to Kyiv since the beginning of Russia’s invasion.The package includes additional ammunition for drones and long-range artillery. It also includes additional munitions for Patriot air defense systems as well as munitions for other air defense systems, including Stingers, Avengers and Aim-7 […]

Many countries celebrate Pride in June, recognizing L.B.G.T.Q. people and their struggles for equality around the world. But that fight, and that celebration, look different in different places.In Asia and the Pacific, same-sex marriage is legal only in Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan, according to the Human Rights Campaign. India’s Supreme Court heard arguments last month in a case to legalize gay marriage.Many L.G.B.T.Q. people will celebrate Pride in Asian […]

Berlin is ordering four of the five Russian consulates in Germany to close after Moscow limited the number of German diplomatic staff allowed in Russia, the latest in an escalating tit-for-tat diplomatic dispute between the two countries.The Russian Foreign Ministry had been told to start shutting down its consulates in Germany immediately and must finish by the end of the year, Christofer Burger, a spokesman for Germany’s Foreign Ministry, said […]

Why It Matters: Poverty is a big killer.In 2019, more than 8 percent of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty, subsisting on less than $2.15 per day, and about half the world on less than $6.85 per day. Poverty has insidious effects on housing stability, education, health and life expectancy.The pandemic drove 97 million additional people into extreme poverty in 2020, according to a World Bank estimate, prompting more […]

Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested for failing to move out of the road in Parliament Square in their latest slow march. The group said 10 supporters, including a wheelchair-dependent, retired cook and members of Christian Climate Action, were detained by police on Wednesday. They were among a larger group of 56 activists who were staging a slow march near the Houses of Parliament, following earlier protest action in […]

The sight is one that beekeepers say is understandably intimidating to the ordinary person out for a walk: a sliver of sky suddenly darkening amid the collective roar of thousands of honeybees before they cluster on branches or bushes.In Britain, the behavior, known as swarming, typically takes place from May to July and is a natural process in which a honeybee colony splits in half and leaves with a queen […]

Can House Republicans behave as the members of a well-functioning political party would? Or are they still the same party that has cycled through one House leader after another over the past decade, unable to find one who can unite various factions?The past few days of debt-ceiling talks have brought conflicting signals. And Republicans don’t have much more time to choose a path: To avoid a default that many economists […]

Indians have been filing into gas stations, jewelry stores, fruit stands and any other businesses that still accept soon-to-be-withdrawn 2,000-rupee notes, each worth about $24.The race to spend India’s biggest bill has been on since its central bank announced this month that they would be removed from circulation by early fall.India’s vast economy remains heavily reliant on cash, and many businesses have welcomed the surge in traffic, even if it […]

The climate crisis is becoming a financial crisis.This month, the largest homeowner insurance company in California, State Farm, announced that it would stop selling coverage to homeowners. That’s not just in wildfire zones, but everywhere in the state.Insurance companies, tired of losing money, are raising rates, restricting coverage or pulling out of some areas altogether — making it more expensive for people to live in their homes.“Risk has a price,” […]