The utter devastation of so many Syrian cities is difficult to grasp and around Damascus there is simmering anger that the capital was spared while their lives are wrecked. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

A Weakened Hezbollah Resists Pressure to Give Up Its Weapons www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/w...

The #Kamchatka peninsula -- near the epicenter of a massive earthquake in the #Russian Far East -- features as a territory on the #Risk board game, but for more than that here is a previous story on a land of volcanoes, bears and #salmon. With @evazinaida.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/t...

Are We Seeing the Outlines of a New Middle East? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/u...

Israel’s Attack in Iran Echoes Its Strategy Against Hezbollah www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/w...

Crimea, Once a Crossroad of Civilizations, Finds Itself Isolated and Under Attack www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/w...

In Viareggio, Italy, the annual carnival parade is famous for political satire. One float featured a 50-foot statue of Meloni. The float’s creator had dressed the figure in a pink suit jacket, swaying inside a pair of oversize gray jodhpurs like those once favored by Mussolini. shorturl.at/jwTXH

The arbitrary nature of Russia’s court system makes it a particularly dubious place to do business www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/w...