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Why pay rent just to sleep in the metro

Why Luke Skywalker announces Russian missiles incoming

NEWSFLASH: Russians strike SBU headquarters in Kyiv

NEWSFLASH: Democrats blocking Russia sanctions bill

Russia can't win war, its own analysts say

Five days of terror with Russian jet-powered drones

Behind the scenes of Ukraine’s top anti-corruption agency

Betray Ukraine, or lose your son

Independence Day, as our parents remember it

Russia turned our hometowns into hunting grounds

NEWSFLASH: Ukraine has a new defense minister

Summer vacations under Russian missiles

My trauma, living in defenseless Kyiv

With no Patriots, Ukraine builds missile interceptors

Taiwan’s shrinking population is a national security threat

Ukrainian drones deliver devastating package to Russia’s Amazon

Ukraine's interceptor drones help arm pacifist Japan

Peter Strzok on Kash Patel’s “ill-advised” trip to Russia

U.S. poop parasite is familiar Ukraine nightmare

Can Ukraine keep striking beyond the front line without Fedorov?

NEWSLASH: Zelenskyy dismisses army chief after public pressure

How conscription pushes women into “male jobs”

The Ukrainian work-protest balance

NEWSFLASH: Zelenskyy dismisses Defense Minister

Why Cuban immigrant prefers wartime Kyiv to Havana

Should the EU ban Russian tourists?

“When will war end” searches peak in Russia

NEWSFLASH: Trump may let Ukraine build Patriot interceptors

Heatwave kills, alongside Russian missiles

NEWSFLASH: Massive evacuation in Kyiv region, no ballistic missiles intercepted

The Ukraine speech we wish Trump would give

How Ukrainians share Canadian soil with Indigenous

Russia’s oil empire running low on gas

Interested in Ukraine reconstruction?

How Ukraine is cutting off Russia’s land corridor to Crimea

How post offices became a frontline indicator

Fallen soldier becomes father via frozen sperm

How ‘Oi!’ defines British punk and Ukrainian soul

NEWSFLASH: Kyiv’s fiery payback hits Moscow

NEWSFLASH: For Russia, even a monastery is a target

How world sports bent to Moscow's will

NEWSFLASH: Ukraine enters talks to join EU

Inside Russia’s child detention

War threatens Ukraine’s checkers champions

Uninvited drones ruined Putin’s big economic party

NEWSFLASH: Zelenskyy, in first Putin letter, says ceasefire can’t wait for Trump

Inside an inclusive Ukrainian bakery

How Russia exploits Ukraine’s Greek community

NEWSFLASH: Russian drone injures two in NATO member Romania

Russia can’t bomb this market away

Taiwan’s drone pilots don’t wait for Trump’s help

NEWSFLASH: Russia’s scariest attack yet

Is Russia opening a new front in Belarus?

Why Russia pushes separatism inside NATO

Putin’s adrenaline crash

What Putin’s really like in private

NEWSFLASH: Putin launches massive attacks after signaling war’s end

Why Ukraine struggles to mobilize

How mothers explain war to our children

Zelenskyy's Russia trolling

NEWSFLASH: Trump declares a 3-day Ukraine-Russia ceasefire

What communist sympathizers usually don’t get

Should Ukrainians have legal guns?

Maduro’s prisoners remain behind bars

Let's be honest

Celebrating 3 years: a look inside our war reporting

NEWSFLASH: Oil prices soar above $120 per barrel

Why I am happy when oil prices rise

How the Russians could make Chornobyl deadly again

Inside our most memorable stories

Foreign fighters risk prison back home

Once we were just kids with plans

NEWSFLASH: Terror attack in Kyiv

NEWSFLASH: US renews sanctions waiver for Russian oil

Russia uses video games to recruit kids

Taiwan stinky tofu stalls hit by Iran war shock

NEWSFLASH: Orbán concedes election, Hungary gets new government

For Hungarian minorities, no good election choice

Why Zelenskyy’s photo is all over Hungary

Ukraine finally outshoots Russia

NEWSFLASH: Vance insults Zelenskyy as he endorses Hungary’s Orban

Chinese generators explode during Kharkiv blackouts

War ruined my lifesaving medicine

Inside Russian scams in Ukraine.

Why Americans come for treatment in a warzone

How I escape war-torn reality

Why Ukrainian kids are leaving the safety of Europe to return home

Iran War threatens Ukraine borshch prices

How war is a boon to traffickers

NEWSFLASH: Kyiv’s Maidan Square Hit with Drone Debris

When routine bank transit meets Hungarian hostility

Trump admin lifts sanctions on Russian oil

Iran war disrupts supply lines to Ukraine’s battlefield

I live next to a strategic nuclear target

The Iranian nightmare Ukraine should never see

Why Trump needs Ukraine to stop Iranian drones

How Trump’s war gives Putin’s war machine a chance

NEWSFLASH: US service members killed; civilians dead in Jerusalem; new Iran leadership named

The Iranian exiles bar where revolution is dreamed up

NEWSFLASH: Iran's Supreme Leader dead, Israel and Trump say

Wake up, they're bombing Iran

NEWSFLASH: U.S. strikes Iran with regime change intent

NEWSFLASH: Israel launches strike on Iran

Russians stole my birthday

The ‘anniversary effect’: Ukrainians live by a trauma calendar

They’re attacking the railways

How Elon’s satellites nearly led to Ukrainian disaster

How war disrupted my love story

So many Iranians killed, funeral traditions are changing

We’re approaching our breaking point

Why cold, darkness worsen PTSD among ex-POWs

How Ukraine’s homeless are faring in freezing conditions

Trump’s weeklong ceasefire? Russia says 2 days

NEWSFLASH: Trump, Zelenskyy announce energy ceasefire in Ukraine

Same-sex couples find a haven in Taiwan

How war makes kids grow up angry

How Iran’s internet blackouts work

Why Myroslava, Nastia left Kyiv

What Iran’s Theocracy Doesn’t Want You To See

Only reliable U.S. aid for Ukraine: McDonald’s

I once craved the polar cold. Now I fear it at home.

How a drought drives Iran’s protests

Inside Venezuela’s oil refineries

NEWSFLASH: Kyiv residents urged to evacuate after Russian attacks

How deaf people live through blackouts

Ukraine’s cold water warriors

Inside the prison Trump’s ICE sent Venezuelans to

NEWSFLASH: Trump on Venezuela: “We are going to run the country”

What I saw as the U.S. bombed Venezuela

NEWSFLASH: Loud explosions overnight in Venezuela

NEWSFLASH: Zelenskyy taps spy Budanov as head of presidential office