The ruling is the latest step in a decadelong crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights under President Vladimir Putin.
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Russia bans international LGBT movement as ‘extremist’
The Kremlin appears to be banking on global homophobia as a unifying ideology that will align intolerant countries – particularly in the Middle East and Africa – against the liberal West.
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Ukraine finds a way to get grain to the world despite Russia’s threat in the Black Sea
The grain traverses a fledgling shipping corridor launched after Russia pulled out of a U.N.-brokered agreement this summer that allowed food to flow safely from Ukraine during the war.
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Russia says it downed dozens of Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow, following a mass strike on Kyiv
Andrei Vorobyev, governor of the Moscow region, wrote on Telegram that the drone strikes damaged three unspecified buildings, adding that no one was hurt.
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Republicans want to pair border security with aid for Ukraine. Here’s why that makes a deal so tough
A small, bipartisan group in the Senate is taking the lead and working to find a narrow compromise that can overcome a likely filibuster by winning 60 votes.
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Ukraine says 3 civilians were killed in a daylight Russian cluster bomb attack
Five people were wounded in what Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said was heavy afternoon shelling of Kherson’s Chornobayivka suburb.
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10 years later, a war-weary Ukraine reflects on start of collision course with Russia
In late November 2013, President Viktor Yanukovych announced he was suspending an agreement to bring the country closer to the European Union and instead would deepen ties with President Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Austin meets with Zelensky in Kyiv
Lloyd Austin said Ukraine’s effort to defeat Russia’s invasion ‘matters to the rest of the world’ and that U.S. support would continue ‘for the long haul.’
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Russia frees killers from prison to go to war and kill in Ukraine
To avoid calling another controversial mobilization and risk angering the public ahead of presidential elections next year, Russia’s military has relied increasingly on prison recruitment to bolster its ranks.
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More than 2,400 Ukrainian children taken to Belarus, Yale study finds
At least 2,442 children, including those with disabilities, were taken to Belarus from 17 cities of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine between Feb. 24, 2022, and Oct. 30, 2023.