Why Africa keeps employing Russia’s bad boy mercenaries Russian mercenaries, like the Wagner group, have an awful reputation. Multiple Western outlets have reported on their military ineffectiveness, their abysmal human rights record, and their exploitativ... (photo: AP / French Army)Asiatimes
Deep divisions on display at plastic pollution treaty talks A final round of talks on a treaty to curb plastic pollution opened on Monday, with deep differences between nations emerging almost immediately. | The meeting started just hours after a chaotic end t... (photo: Creative Commons / Muntaka Chasant https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plastic_Pollution_in_Ghana.jpg)Phys Dot Org
G7 hopeful for Mideast ceasefire FIUGGI, Italy -- Foreign ministers from the world's leading industrialized nations expressed cautious optimism Monday about possible progress on a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. | The top dip... (photo: Ben Dance / FCDO)Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ItalyMiddle EastPhotosUkraine
Ukrainians Less Hopeful About the Future This article is the fourth in a series based on Gallup’s latest surveys in Ukraine. In 2023 and 2024, some occupied territories with entrenched Russian control were... (photo: AP / Andriy Andriyenko, File)Gallup NATOPhotosRussiaUkraine
