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A month into Russia's push across the border into northern Ukraine, Western weapons and Ukrainian reinforcements have largely blocked the attack. But they arrived too late to save one city, Vovchansk, where the town hall, a cultural center, countless apartment buildings and several riverside hotels are now in ruins.A small town divided by the Vovcha River, Vovchansk was once a regional tourist attraction, a pleasant base from which to explore the nearby chalk hills. But it is also three miles from the Russian border, and when Russia began a cross-border offensive on May 10, it became the defensive position of Ukrainian forces.The front line still runs through Vovchansk, about 70% of which remains under Ukrainian control. And a month of fierce fighting and relentless bombing by Russi...

The dispute over Elon Musk's pay package and the vote on whether to move Tesla's headquarters to Texas were in focus ahead of the company's shareholder meeting on Thursday, but not for Nordic investors.Tesla's major shareholders in Sweden, Denmark and Norway instead expect the meeting to bring the issue of workers' rights to the forefront at the automaker.Behind the campaign is the Tesla mechanics strike in Sweden. Now in its sixth month, the dispute has attracted unions across the region who have banded together in blocs aimed at bringing the US automaker to the negotiating table to reach a collective agreement with its Swedish workers.Many of the Nordics' largest shareholders are urging others to support a proposal that would require Tesla to respect workers'...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said Wednesday he will continue to urgently push for a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, despite a counterproposal from Hamas that he said includes unacceptable demands.After more than eight months of war in Gaza, the proposed ceasefire agreement follows an outline made public last month by President Biden and has the approval of the United Nations Security Council. But Israel and Hamas still seem far from reaching an agreement.“In the days ahead, we will push with urgency,” Blinken said, “to try to get this deal done.”Speaking at a news conference in Doha, Qatar, alongside Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who serves as both prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of Qatar, Blinken said “there was a deal on the t...

Space changes you, even on short trips off-planet.Four people who spent three days off Earth in September 2021 experienced physical and mental changes that included modest declines in cognitive tests, immune system stress and genetic changes within their cells, scientists report in a package of published papers Tuesday in the journal Nature and several other related journals.Almost everything that changed in the astronauts returned to normal after the crash on Earth. None of the changes appeared to constitute a warning to future space travelers. But the findings also highlighted how little medical researchers know.Christopher Mason, a professor of genomics, physiology and biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and one of the leaders of the research, called the collection o...

Russian warships arrived in Cuban waters Wednesday as part of planned military exercises that experts said were a symbolic show of force in reaction to continued U.S. support for Ukraine and a reflection of growing ties between Russia and Cuba.The group of four ships poses no real threat, U.S. officials said, despite tensions between the United States and Russia over the war in Ukraine. The group includes the nuclear submarine Kazan and the frigate Admiral Gorshkov and contains no nuclear weapons.The warships, which carried out military exercises before their arrival in the Caribbean, will remain in Havana until June 17 while the crew meet officials and visit cultural and historical sites, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said.Capable of engaging in surface warfare, using land-attack missiles a...

The European Union said Wednesday it would impose additional tariffs of up to 38% on electric cars built in China, a move that would help level the playing field for automakers in Europe.The tariffs, expected for months, come on top of existing 10% duties, but the level of their impact has been disputed. Some European automakers say they will start a trade war, but other experts have said they will not stop China's dominance in the industry.Instead, they argue that incentives to make low-emission cars more attractive to drivers would be needed if the European Union hopes to reach its goal of banning the sale of new internal combustion engine vehicles in 2035.What does this mean for consumers?Industry experts predict that increased tariffs on electric vehicles from China will hurt cons...

Saudi Arabia has already launched a hostile takeover of professional golf. He has invested billions of dollars in world football. Now he wants to own professional boxing too.An ambitious and expensive Saudi plan that would reshape the economy, structure and future of boxing is in the final stages of approval, according to two people with direct knowledge of the plan.Saudi Arabia's giant sovereign vehicle, the Public Investment Fund, would finance the project. The fund is holding final negotiations on the distribution of the initial investment – ​​said to amount to $2 billion – that the plan would require, according to the two people involved in the planning. Both people declined to be identified because the project does not have final approval.The Public Investment Fund, known as P...

Morrie Markoff, a supercentenarian blogger and scrap metal sculptor believed to be the oldest man in the United States and whose brain was donated for research into so-called super-aging, died June 3 at his home in downtown Los Angeles. Angeles. He was 110 years old.He had two strokes in recent weeks, his daughter, Judith Markoff Hansen, said, confirming his death.People who live to 110 years or older are considered supercentenarians, and the Gerontology Research Group, in Los Angeles, lists more than 150 of them worldwide.Mr. Markoff, born in New York on January 11, 1914, six months before the start of World War I, joined the club this year and was considered the oldest living man in the United States after his death, in January of Francis. Zouein, aged 113, in California.As of April, ...

The European Union said on Wednesday that Chinese manufacturers will face tariffs of up to 38% on electric vehicles imported into the bloc, in what EU leaders said was an effort to protect the region's manufacturers from unfair competition.The blockade will impose provisional duties ranging from 17.4% to 38.1% for three major Chinese manufacturers, including BYD, Geely and SAIC. Other Chinese automakers face tariffs of 21% or 38.1%, depending on their cooperation with the European Union in its investigations into the matter.The move to raise tariffs has been criticized by several European automakers who fear it could raise prices, scare customers and lead to costly retaliation from China.The European Union defended the action, saying in a statement that an investigation had found that...

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