RIGA, Latvia — Russian authorities sharply increased the pressure on Alexei Navalny’s mother on Friday to agree to bury him in a quiet, private funeral — issuing her a three-hour ultimatum and threatening to inter him on the grounds of the prison colony where he died suddenly last week, a former top aide to the … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian missiles tore through apartment buildings in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, local officials said Thursday, killing at least two people and burying families under rubble as the Kremlin’s forces continued to pound the fiercely contested area with long-range weapons. Russian military units simultaneously launched six S-300 missiles toward the Donetsk region during … Read more
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American Airlines signed a deal to trap 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide underground. It’s part of the airline’s plans to limit the pollution causing climate change, and it marks the first major deal for the Bill Gates-backed startup Graphyte that’s developing cutting-edge technology to tackle the problem. Similar startups are selling services to big brands … Read more
NANTERRE, France — Hushed and visibly anguished, a whole lot of mourners from France’s Islamic neighborhood fashioned a solemn procession from a mosque to a hillside cemetery on Saturday to bury a 17-year-old whose killing by police has triggered days of rioting and looting throughout the nation. Underscoring the gravity of the disaster, President Emmanuel … Read more