Explainer: How is Russia-Ukraine war linked to religion?
AP Ukraine’s tangled political history with Russia has its counterpart in the religious landscape, with Ukraine’s majority Orthodox Christian population divided between an independent-minded group based in Kyiv and another loyal to its patriarch in Moscow. But while there have been appeals to religious nationalism in both Russia and Ukraine, religious loyalty doesn’t mirror political […]
Wow!: Uber for all? Low-cost US ride-hailing services make rural inroads
DAVID SHERFINSKI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how on-demand ‘microtransit’ services are expanding from cities to more rural parts of the United States, offering an affordable means of transport for vulnerable residents…
Stuck for days in their cars, Ukrainians wait to flee
Shehyni, Ukraine Reuters Thousands of people are fleeing war in eastern Ukraine for the relative safety of its western border with Poland, only to find that a punishing new ordeal awaits. By Sunday afternoon, an unmoving line of cars, buses and trucks stretched for 35 kilometres from the border crossing at Shehyni, all packed with […]
Thousands protest against Russia across European cities; 2,000 arrests in Russia
Berlin, GermanyReuters Tens of thousands of people across Europe marched in protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Sunday, the fourth day of the biggest assault on a European state since World War II. More than 100,000 people gathered in central Berlin, carrying signs reading: “Stop the War”, “Putin’s last war” and “We stand with […]
“Heartbroken” Pope condemns warmongers; Orthodox spiritual leader calls for end to war
Vatican CityReuters Pope Francis on Sunday made an impassioned call for humanitarian corridors to help refugees leave Ukraine and said those who make war should not be deluded into thinking that God is on their side. People hold Ukrainian flags as Pope Francis leads the Angelus prayer from a window of the Apostolic Palace at […]
Putin puts nuclear deterrent on alert as West rallies behind Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine/Moscow, Russia Reuters President Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear deterrent on high alert on Sunday in the face of a barrage of Western reprisals for his war on Ukraine, which said it had repelled Russian ground forces attacking its biggest cities. The United States said Putin was escalating the war in a “totally unacceptable” […]
Russian forces enter Ukraine’s second city, gas pipelines explode
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russian military vehicles pushed into Ukraine’s second-largest city on Sunday and explosions rocked oil and gas installations on a fourth day of fighting in the biggest assault on a European state since World War II. Russian soldiers and armoured vehicles were seen in different parts of the north-eastern city of Kharkiv and firing […]
Ukraine invasion plays out online as web sleuths document the conflict
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation When data enthusiast Oliver Alexander saw online security camera footage showing military trucks on a Ukrainian road hours after Russia launched its military assault, he noticed a familiar detail. “You could see that they had diagonal lines painted on them, which is what was spotted on units based in Crimea. So […]
North Korea resumes missile tests with first launch in a month
Seoul, South Korea/Tokyon, JapanReuters North Korea fired what could be a ballistic missile on Sunday, military officials in South Korea and Japan said, in what would be the first test since the nuclear-armed country conducted a record number of launches in January. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff reported that North Korea had fired one […]
Refugees flee Ukraine across EU borders
Medyka, Poland/Beregsurany, Hungary Reuters Refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine poured across its western borders on the third day of fighting on Saturday, with more than 100,000 reaching Poland so far, many making the final stretch of their journeys to safety on foot. As Russian forces pounded Ukrainian cities including the capital Kyiv with artillery […]