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The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to formally annex four territories from Ukraine on Friday, following staged referendums that were condemned by the West. (Image credit: Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)

Banned by the Nazis for its anti-war message, the classic novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” is getting a Netflix revival with lessons for a new troubled age. The nearly century-old book, already the subject of an Oscar-winning film

The Finnish government has said it will ban anyone coming into the country with a tourist visa from Friday following thousands of arrivals after Vladimir Putin’s mobilisation order.

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After holding a series of sham referenda across large swathes of Russian-controlled southern and eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin announced on Thursday that President Vladimir Putin will hold a signing ceremony on Friday to formally annex the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk,

September was supposed to be all about The Rings of Power. After years of anticipation and controversy, Amazon’s beautiful, record-breakingly expensive Lord of the Rings series finally debut just before Labor Day… and it turned out to be neither terrible

A fourth leak has been detected in undersea gas pipelines linking Russia to Europe, the Swedish Coast Guard said Thursday, after explosions were reported earlier this week in what NATO called “reckless” sabotage. The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines

Smoke and flames rise from a hill during a forest fire in Chongqing, China, on August 18, when the highest temperature recorded there was 112 degrees Farenheit. | Chen Chao/China News Service via Getty Images China’s catastrophic summer shows its

An exodus of Russian draft-age men has accelerated toward the country’s dwindling number of open land borders, as tens of thousands of potential conscripts for the war in Ukraine seek to flee.

While Ukraine’s counteroffensive this month was hailed as stunning by military observers, Ukrainian troops tell NPR that Russian forces put up stiff resistance in parts of the Kharkiv region. (Image credit: Pete Kiehart for NPR)