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Crew Abandons Cargo Ship After Houthi Missile Attack
The crew of a cargo ship in the Red Sea was forced to abandon ship after it came under attack on Monday from the Houthi militia in Yemen, who have been firing missiles at ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in what the group says is a campaign to pressure Israel to end its war in the Gaza Strip. The attack on the ship, the Rubymar, appeared to be one of the Houthis' most damaging so far. Most of the armed group's missile and drone assaults on ships have failed to inflict serious damage.
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Russia Uses Surrender in Mariupol to Portray Ukrainians as Terrorists Many soldiers who surrendered from Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant belong to the Azov battalion, a group with far-right roots, and the Kremlin may now put them on trial just as Ukraine is prosecuting Russians for war crimes. By Valerie Hopkins, Neil MacFarquhar, Ivan Nechepurenko and Michael Levenson
Putin no cree que Ucrania sea un Estado independiente, pero la historia dice otra cosa
[Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés en febrero de 2022] KIEV, Ucrania — En vísperas de la invasión rusa de Ucrania, el presidente Vladimir Putin argumentó que la idea misma de un Estado ucraniano era una ficción.
Los miembros del Tratado de no Proliferación Nuclear confrontan la amenaza de guerra
Reunión en Viena El actual contexto pone más presión sobre un acuerdo que busca la desnuclearización de los conflictos. Los partidarios de un tratado global que prohíbe las armas nucleares se reunieron el martes por primera vez desde que el pacto entró en vigencia el año pasado, con preocupaciones sobre las amenazas rusas de usar tales armas en el conflicto de Ucrania que pesan mucho en este contexto.
Mariupol, a symbol of the war’s human cost, likely was Ukraine’s ‘deadliest place’ through April.
The southern port of Mariupol has become a potent emblem of the human toll of the war in Ukraine, a besieged city where trapped residents went for weeks without electricity or water, and where people dug trenches to accommodate the mounting numbers of bodies. On Thursday, the top United Nations human rights official said that Mariupol likely was the “deadliest place in Ukraine” in the first three months of Russia’s invasion. Thousands of civilians are believed to have died there, she said.
Ukrainian holdouts in Mariupol surrender to an uncertain fate
Hundreds of die-hard Ukrainian soldiers who had made a last stand against Russian forces from a Mariupol steel mill faced an uncertain future Tuesday under Kremlin custody after Ukraine’s military ordered them to surrender. The surrender directive, issued late Monday, made the soldiers prisoners and ended the most protracted battle so far of the nearly 3-month-old Russian invasion of Ukraine. Unable to view this article? This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software.
Ukrainian Holdouts in Mariupol Surrender to an Uncertain Fate
KYIV, Ukraine — Hundreds of die-hard Ukrainian soldiers who had made a last stand against Russian forces from a Mariupol steel mill faced an uncertain future Tuesday under Kremlin custody after Ukraine’s military ordered them to surrender. The surrender directive, issued late Monday, made the soldiers prisoners and ended the most protracted battle so far of the nearly three-month-old Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Further Russian Retreat Seen in East Ukraine, Another Setback for Putin
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KRAKOW, Poland — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia faced a series of setbacks Monday over the Ukraine invasion, as his faltering military appeared forced to further shrink its goals and an emboldened NATO practiced war games with the alliance’s two newest applicants on his country’s doorstep.
By Eleanor Lutz, Marc Santora Verified, Anton Troianovski Verified, Rick Gladstone, Matthew Mpoke Bigg Verified
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Emboldened by Ukraine’s Grit, U.S. Wants to See Russia Weakened
April 25, 2022, 6:54 p.m. ET April 25, 2022, 6:54 p.m. ET Marc Santora, John Ismay and Rick Gladstone Alexander Buriak on a charred Ukrainian tank on Monday in Hostomel, Ukraine. The boy’s family had been evacuated on March 10, after his father, Vladislav, was shot in the arm by a Russian sniper.
Why Ukraine War Crimes Trials Could Take Many Years
Long after the fighting ends, any prosecutions and trials arising from it could be barely beginning. Here is a look at the complexities of bringing aggressors to justice.
Western powers look into an unverified claim of possible use of a chemical agent in Mariupol.
The United States, Britain and other Western allies, along with Ukraine’s government, are examining claims that Russia deployed a chemical agent that sickened a handful of people in Moscow’s unrelenting bid to gain complete control over the ruined Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
El número de ojivas nucleares en reservas utilizables está aumentando
El número mundial de ojivas con armas nucleares está aumentando, según un informe de vigilancia publicado el lunes que se presenta en el contexto de las amenazas veladas del Kremlin de utilizar parte de su vasto arsenal si la guerra en Ucrania se intensifica. El informe publicado por el Monitor de Prohibición de Armas Nucleares dijo que los nueve estados con armas nucleares del mundo tenían un arsenal combinado de 12.705 ojivas nucleares a principios de este año.
Up-Close Ukraine Atrocity Photographs Touch a Global Nerve
Tatiana Petrovna, 72, reacts as she views the bodies of three civilians in the garden of a home in Bucha, Ukraine, on MOnday, April 4, 2022. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times) Perhaps it was the way the lifeless bodies, bloodied by bullets, and some with hands bound, had been left strewn about or shoveled into makeshift mass graves. Or the reality of seeing them up close in widely circulated photographs and videos.
Las fotografías de las atrocidades en Ucrania horrorizan al mundo
La aparente ejecución de civiles ucranianos por parte de las fuerzas rusas en retirada, con sus cuerpos esparcidos por calles y patios, ha centrado la atención en lo que constituye un crimen de guerra.
Zelensky vilifies Russia over atrocities: ‘They killed entire families.’
April 5, 2022, 11:43 a.m. ET April 5, 2022, 11:43 a.m. ET President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine speaking on a video feed to the United Nations Security Council in New York on Tuesday.Credit...John Minchillo/Associated Press Raging at Russia over growing evidence of atrocities, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Tuesday delivered one of his most forceful denunciations of the invasion in a live video speech to the United Nations Security Council, calling the Russians war criminals who...
Up-Close Ukraine Atrocity Photographs Touch a Global Nerve Original
Perhaps it was the way the lifeless bodies, bloodied by bullets, and some with hands bound, had been left strewn about or shoveled into makeshift mass graves. Or the reality of seeing them up close in widely circulated photographs and videos.
As Biden Visits Europe Over Crisis, NATO Says It’s Doubling Eastern Flank Forces
March 23, 2022, 6:46 p.m. ET March 23, 2022, 6:46 p.m. ET Matina Stevis-Gridneff, David E.
„NY Times“: Rusijos puolimams nesiliaujant Ukrainoje gilėja humanitarinė krizė
Viltims dėl nors trumpų paliaubų blykstelint ir lygiai taip pat greitai užgęstant, Rusijos invazija – didžiausias konfliktas Europoje nuo Antrojo pasaulinio karo – pavertė pabėgėliais mažiausiai 1,7 milijono ukrainiečių, iš kurių pusė yra vaikai, teigia Jungtinės Tautos. Daugelis jų yra įstrigę savo miestuose, negalėdami išvykti dėl intensyvių Rusijos pajėgų karo veiksmų. Šalies pietryčiuose esančio Mariupolio gyventojai ištisas dienas gyvena be maisto, vandens ir kitų būtiniausių daiktų.
Humanitarian Crisis Worsens for Ukrainians Trapped in Russia’s Onslaught
Two weeks after the invasion began, tens of thousands of Ukrainians are without food, water or power. The Russians are increasingly resorting to indiscriminate shelling to help their forces advance. Russian forces unleashed an artillery attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on Monday, hitting residential neighborhoods with rockets and sending streams of people fleeing.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York Times By Michael Schwirtz, Andrew E.
U.N. leader deepens criticism of Russia over Ukraine crisis.
The leader of the United Nations deepened his criticism of Russia on Tuesday over its actions in Ukraine, not only describing them as a violation of Ukrainian sovereignty but disparaging the Kremlin’s descriptions of its troops as peacekeepers. He called the crisis a test of the global organization.
United States and allies target Russia at United Nations
The unusual late-evening meeting of the Council was requested by Ukraine after President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Donetsk and Luhansk | Published 23.02.22, 04:10 AM The US and allied nations sought to isolate Russia on Monday at an emergency UN Security Council meeting over the Ukraine crisis, calling Moscow’s recognition of two separatist regions and the deployment of Russian troops a blunt defiance of international law that risks war.
Putin Calls Ukrainian Statehood a Fiction. History Suggests Otherwise.
In a speech, President Vladimir V. Putin bent Ukraine’s complex history into his own version that served as a justification for his cleaving off more of its territory. People in Odessa on Sunday commemorated protesters killed in 2014 by paramilitary police forces in Kyiv, Ukraine.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times By Michael Schwirtz, Maria Varenikova and Rick Gladstone Feb. 21, 2022, 8:52 p.m. ET KYIV, Ukraine — In his speech to the Russian nation on Monday, President Vladimir V.
‘Guernica’ Antiwar Tapestry to Be Rehung at U.N.
The canvas replica of Picasso’s painting, symbolizing war’s horrors, had been a photogenic fixture at the United Nations for decades before its owner, the Rockefeller family, removed it last year. The floor-to-ceiling reproduction of Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” was a fixture outside the United Nations Security Council before it was removed in February of last year.Credit...Jason Szenes/EPA, via Shutterstock Feb.
Angry U.S.-Russia exchange at U.N. punctuates deepening Ukraine rift Original
The United States and Russia bitterly attacked each other over the Ukraine crisis in a diplomatic brawl Monday at the U.N. Security Council, in a session replete with acidic exchanges that could have been lifted from the Cold War era.
Angry U.S.-Russia Exchange at U.N. Punctuates Deepening Ukraine Rift Original
The United States and Russia bitterly attacked each other over the Ukraine crisis in a diplomatic brawl Monday at the U.N. Security Council, in a session replete with acidic exchanges that could have been lifted from the Cold War era.
Russia dismissed a U.N. Security Council meeting as an American P.R. stunt.
Russia on Friday denounced a scheduled U.N. Security Council meeting on Ukraine as a “clear P.R. stunt” orchestrated by the United States, and signaled Moscow’s intent to derail it. American officials expressed confidence that the meeting, planned to be broadcast live on Monday, would proceed. The meeting of the Security Council, the most powerful U.N. body, was requested by the United States in response to Russia’s buildup of military forces along Ukraine’s borders.
Ukraine crisis: US accosts Russia at UN Security Council
Two powers engage in diplomatic brawl | Published 01.02.22, 02:17 AM The US and Russia engaged in a public diplomatic brawl on Monday at the UN Security Council over the Ukraine crisis, with the Americans accusing the Russians of endangering peace by massing troops on Ukraine’s borders and Kremlin diplomats dismissing what they called farcical theatrics and fear-mongering. Almost immediately after the meeting of the 15-nation council convened, the Russians objected to even holding it.
U.S. and Russia to Confront Each Other at U.N. Over Ukraine
The Americans see the Security Council meeting as an opportunity to force Russia to explain itself, while Russia calls the meeting a diplomatic farce. Russian infantry fighting vehicles during drills held last week in the Rostov region of Russia.Credit...Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters Jan.
Covid setbacks to schooling are ‘nearly insurmountable,’ the U.N. says. Original
Eric, left, and Quita Shorty, from Atlanta, are among millions of schoolchildren who have endured extended periods away from the classroom.Credit...Dustin Chambers for The New York Times Almost two years into the coronavirus pandemic, more than 635 million children globally remain affected by full or partial school closures, the United Nations said Monday in a report that called the setbacks to education “nearly insurmountable.” The report from the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said...
U.N. Approves Israeli Measure to Condemn Holocaust Denial Original
The resolution was aimed at combating what Israel and other countries have described as an epidemic of disinformation about the murder of nearly six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazis. The ‘Hall of Names’ at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day last year in Jerusalem.Credit...Abir Sultan/EPA, via Shutterstock Jan.
Sorry, world: Famous apologies by high-profile figures
Some of the I’m Sorries are too little, too late; others are greeted sympathetically. Some are for transgressions that festered into scandal, others for spectacular errors of judgment or worse. The common denominator is that the apologists are well known, magnifying the significance of whatever they may have done wrong. And their words of penance did not necessarily help them.
Sorry, World: Famous Apologies by High-Profile Figures Original
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s self-abasing apology, for attending a party during a pandemic lockdown, joins a long list of mea culpas by the prominent and powerful. Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain makes a statement before Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, on Wednesday.Credit...House Of Commons/Press Association, via Associated Press Jan. 12, 2022 Some of the I’m Sorries are too little, too late, others are greeted sympathetically.
Los robots asesinos no son de ciencia ficción, y hay más presión para prohibirlos
Tal vez haya parecido un desconocido cónclave de las Naciones Unidas, pero la semana pasada expertos en inteligencia artificial, estrategia militar, desarme y derecho humanitario siguieron atentamente una reunión celebrada en Ginebra. ¿La razón detrás del interés? Los robots asesinos —drones, armas y bombas que deciden por su cuenta, con cerebros artificiales, si van a atacar y matar— y lo que se debe hacer, si se llega a hacer algo, para regularlos o prohibirlos.
Los robots asesinos no son de ciencia ficción. Hay más presión para prohibirlos
Tal vez haya parecido un desconocido cónclave de las Naciones Unidas, pero la semana pasada expertos en inteligencia artificial, estrategia militar, desarme y derecho humanitario siguieron atentamente una reunión celebrada en Ginebra. ¿La razón detrás del interés? Los robots asesinos —drones, armas y bombas que deciden por su cuenta, con cerebros artificiales, si van a atacar y matar— y lo que se debe hacer, si se llega a hacer algo, para regularlos o prohibirlos.
„NY Times“: Robotai-žudikai jau taikomi karyboje. Kas nustato taisykles?
Kokia tokio susidomėjimo priežastis? Robotai žudikai – bepiločiai orlaiviai, ginklai ir bombos, kurie savo dirbtinėmis smegenimis patys nusprendžia, ar pulti ir žudyti. Buvo mėginama nuspręsti, ką reikėtų daryti, jei prireiktų juos valdyti, kaip reglamentuoti jų naudojimą. O galbūt apskritai juos uždrausti. Kadaise buvę mokslinės fantastikos filmų, tokių kaip „Terminatorius“ ir „Robotas policininkas“ tema robotai žudikai, techniškai dar vadinami mirtinų autonominių ginklų sistemomis (angl.
killer: Killer robots aren't science fiction; push to ban them is growing - Times of India
A 'killer robot'. (File photo: Reuters) It may have seemed like an obscure United Nations conclave, but a meeting this week in Geneva was followed intently by experts in artificial intelligence (AI), military strategy, disarmament and humanitarian law. The reason? Killer robots - drones, guns and bombs that decide on their own, with artificial brains, whether to attack and kill - and what should be done, if anything, to regulate or ban them.
The Push to Ban Killer Robots
A U.N. conference made little headway this week on limiting development and use of killer robots, prompting stepped-up calls to outlaw such weapons with a new treaty. It may have seemed like an obscure United Nations conclave, but a meeting this week in Geneva was followed intently by experts in artificial intelligence, military strategy, disarmament and humanitarian law. Read Full Article »
Killer Robots Aren’t Science Fiction. A Push to Ban Them is Growing.
It may have seemed like an obscure United Nations conclave, but a meeting this week in Geneva was followed intently by experts in artificial intelligence, military strategy, disarmament and humanitarian law. The reason for the interest? Killer robots — drones, guns and bombs that decide on their own, with artificial brains, whether to attack and kill — and what should be done, if anything, to regulate or ban them.
Russia Blocks U.N. Move to Treat Climate as Security Threat
The Russian veto of a widely supported Security Council resolution pointed to the difficulty of achieving a unified response to global warming. The Security Council chamber at the United Nations.Credit...Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times Dec. 13, 2021, 4:46 p.m. ET Russia on Monday blocked a United Nations Security Council draft resolution, under negotiation for many months, that for the first time would have defined climate change as a threat to peace.
Jailed journalists reach record high for 6th year
Increased government intolerance of independent reporting pushed the number of imprisoned journalists worldwide to a record high of 293 this year, more than a quarter of them in China alone, a monitoring group said in an annual survey released. The total, up from 280 in 2020, is the sixth consecutive annual record for the number of jailed journalists worldwide as tallied by the monitoring group, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
Jailed journalists reach record high for 6th year
By Rick Gladstone The New York Times | Dec 09, 2021 at 10:17 AM Increased government intolerance of independent reporting pushed the number of imprisoned journalists worldwide to a record high of 293 this year, more than a quarter of them in China alone, a monitoring group said in an annual survey released.
Jailed Journalists Reach Record High for Sixth Year in 2021
The Committee to Protect Journalists, a press freedom monitoring group, said 293 journalists were behind bars this year, more than a quarter of them in China. Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media tycoon and founder of Apple Daily, being arrested in 2020. He is the highest profile journalist of 50 imprisoned by China.Credit...Vincent Yu/Associated Press Dec.
U.N. Seats Denied, for Now, to Afghanistan’s Taliban and Myanmar’s Junta
A powerful United Nations committee deferred a decision on applications by the ruling authorities of both countries, widely regarded as pariahs, to replace envoys of the governments they had toppled. The 76th United Nations General Assembly in September.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Dec.
Sudanese forces kill 10 protesting the country’s recent coup, medics report.
A protester on his way last week to a demonstration against the military takeover in Omdurman, Sudan.Credit...Getty Images/Getty Images By Abdi Latif Dahir, Declan Walsh and Rick Gladstone Nov. 17, 2021Updated 1:01 p.m. ET As if the war in Ethiopia were not enough, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s Africa visit is also shadowed by a military coup in Sudan, which has prompted weeks of protests drawing hundreds of thousands of people.
The clash over the Belarus-Poland border crisis spills into the U.N. Security Council.
The Russian deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyanskiy, during a Security Council session in September.
Ethiopia Seizes 16 U.N. Workers Amid Efforts to Halt Tigray War
The detentions aggravated the already tense relations between the United Nations and the Ethiopian government over war and famine in the country’s northern Tigray region. A military parade in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Sunday.Credit...Associated Press Nov.
The nuclear impasse with Iran is also on the G20 agenda.
At the inauguration of President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran in August.Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times In the vortex of global challenges facing the Group of 20 leaders — the tenacious coronavirus, the disrupted economy, the warming climate — lurks a less prominent but no less vexing issue: what to do about Iran’s expanding nuclear program.
U.N. Flight Thwarted as Fighting Grows in Ethiopia
A humanitarian flight was ordered to abort a landing in the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, epicenter of the conflict, as government airstrikes hit the area for a fourth day. The scene of an airstrike in Mekele, the capital of the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray, on Wednesday. Fighting in the region appears to have escalated in recent days.Credit...via Associated Press By Rick Gladstone and Declan Walsh Oct.
U.S. Regains Seat at U.N. Human Rights Council, 3 Years After Quitting Original
The Trump administration called the 47-nation council hypocritical and said it was vilifying Israel. The Biden administration says the U.S. can be more effective as a member. A session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva last year.Credit...Denis Balibouse/Reuters Oct.
Anti-Nobel sentiment has spawned alternative awards over the years.
The choice of a Nobel Peace Prize recipient has often been viewed by autocratic governments as a provocative and hostile act, especially when the winner is a political opponent, an advocate of free expression or an agitator for greater liberties. Some authoritarian countries have even created their own anti-Nobel awards.
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