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Kyiv Workers Find Their Way Online Even as Ukraine Faces Power Outages
Sporadic power outages have people resorting to makeshift office spaces in the Ukrainian capital. Stores have set up power hubs, and workers are getting comfortable...
Family in Ukraine Marks Orthodox Christmas Amid the Ruins of Its Home
Orthodox Christmas came under harsh circumstances in Ukraine this year. For families like the Kovtuns, living next to the remains of their shell-struck home, celebration...
Ukrainians Celebrate Orthodox Christmas at a Holy Site Long Linked to Moscow
The mass marked a deeply symbolic moment as the head of the church that is loyal to Kyiv delivered a sermon after months of tension...
One Day With an Ambulance in Britain: Long Waits, Rising Frustration
Britain is experiencing a crisis in ambulance response times, part of a broader breakdown in the country’s revered National Health Service. We rode with one...
Seeking Heat, and Companionship, in a Hard Scotland Winter
In a Glasgow neighborhood, the cost-of-living crisis is exacerbating energy problems and financial worries, and vital community hubs are struggling to stay afloat.
Nurses in U.K. Strike for First Time, Seeking Higher Pay
The walkout is just one of a series of industrial actions across Britain this month as ballooning inflation, rising interest rates and a recession put...
Manx Language Is Experiencing a Revival on the Isle of Man
After being on the brink of extinction, the ancient tongue is experiencing a revival on the Isle of Man, thanks in part to an elementary...
In Yahidne, Ukraine, a Battered School Holds Memories of Trauma
In Yahidne, a village in northern Ukraine, a basement became a virtual prison for hundreds of residents for four weeks. Months later, that horror lingers.
These Men Fled War in Syria to Ukraine. Now They’ve Fled Again.
Two men displaced from Syria as civil war gripped their country spent a decade living in limbo in Ukraine. But when war came to them...
Who Are Rishi Sunak’s Top Cabinet Ministers?
The new prime minister named people with high-level experience, several of them to posts they have held before, sending a message of stability after a...