Across the country, officials are evaluating and rechristening roads, parks and other sites bearing Russian names.
Temperatures in the region were forecast to remain high into the weekend, with more than 31 million people under excessive heat warnings....
The Ukrainian offensive over the border caught Moscow’s intelligence agencies by surprise, experts say. It wasn’t the first time that has happened during the war....
The excessive heat worldwide suggests the full year will also be a record-breaker, according to Copernicus, the E.U. agency that tracks global warming....
The indictment unsealed on Thursday comes as the United States expands its hunt for Russia’s most elite cyberwarriors....
Dismissing Ukraine’s recent invasion of Kursk, the Russian leader said Kyiv made a mistake in trying to force Moscow to divert its forces from the Donbas region....
Dimitri K. Simes, who was an adviser to Donald J. Trump’s first campaign, and his wife, Anastasia Simes, are accused of violating U.S. sanctions....
American spy agencies have assessed that the Kremlin favors former President Donald J. Trump, seeing him as skeptical of U.S. support for Ukraine....
Also, Zelensky is preparing to shake up his cabinet. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday....
A Moscow court sentenced Alexander Shiplyuk, the director of a physics institute who specializes in hypersonic flight, to 15 years in prison. It was the latest treason case against a leading scientist....
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he was acting to bring a “new energy” to state institutions at an important diplomatic juncture....
When two Russian ballistic missiles struck a military academy in Poltava, debris blocked corridors and exits. Cadets near a bomb shelter survived. Others did not....
A damning final report into Britain’s worst residential fire since World War II blamed a litany of cost-cutting, dishonest sales practices and lax regulation for the blaze that killed 72 people....
Dmytro Kuleba has lobbied Kyiv’s allies to supply missile defense systems. He was among several Ukrainian ministers who offered to resign on Wednesday, an official said....
More tourists are eager to visit vanishing glaciers and ice caves, but warming is also making the sites unstable....
Plus, robot taxis — with human helpers....
Repeated air-raid alerts have punctuated the search through the rubble in Poltava, in eastern Ukraine, after an attack that killed more than 50 people....
Some say they will reluctantly stomach a postwar Israeli military presence in the territory if that allows them to go home. Others worry about another long-term occupation....
Russia attacked a number of cities a day after a devastating strike in the country’s east, Ukrainian officials said....
President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to make the broadest changes to his government since Russia invaded more than two years ago....
The devastation of the strikes on Tuesday was shocking even to Ukrainians who have seen many such scenes during the war....
Republicans tied campus unrest to their party platform. But the intensity may have fizzled....
More than 50 people were killed by two high-speed missiles that hit a military academy in the eastern city of Poltava, one of the most lethal Russian strikes in the war....
Also, polio vaccinations in Gaza are beating goals. Here's the latest at the end of Tuesday....
Experts say the case offers a window into how the Russian government tries to influence American elections and promote its own geopolitical agenda....
The head of Ukrenergo was reportedly blamed for failing to fortify energy infrastructure, which has come under steady Russian bombardment, leading to blackouts....
Ukrainian officials expressed outrage over the Russian leader’s visit, warning they would seek to “ensure that this has consequences” for Mongolia....
The government said that at least 24 inmates had been shot dead as they attempted to escape from Makala Central Prison, which rights organizations have long warned is dangerously overcrowded....
Two ballistic missiles hit an educational institution and a neighboring hospital in Poltava, eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said....
Plus, battling mpox in Congo....
Getting there required buying something far worse than the typical fixer-upper: “It was like excavating in Pompeii.”...