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Ukraine’s Burial Mounds Offer Meaning in a Heap of History The Scythians, marijuana-smoking nomadic warriors of ancient Ukraine, built thousands of burial mounds that are at risk today. A preservation group finds resonance in them for a country at war. Archaeologists excavating an ancient burial mound last month in eastern  Ukraine.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times May 9, 2021 May 9, 2021 DNIPRO, Ukraine — Belching diesel exhaust, a bulldozer cut into a 4,000-year-old...

Why Russia Is Exporting So Much Vaccine Millions of doses of Russia’s pioneering coronavirus vaccine have gone abroad, strengthening the country’s influence at the expense of its people. Hosted by Sabrina Tavernise; produced by Rachelle Bonja, Rachel Quester, Alexandra Leigh Young and Leslye Davis; edited by M.J. Davis Lin and Lisa Chow; and engineered by Chris Wood. Special thanks to Sophia Kishkovsky. transcript -0:00 Listen and follow The Daily In recent years, Russia has tried to reas...

After Testing the World’s Limits, Putin Steps Back From the Brink The Russian president pulled back troops from Ukraine’s border and relented on medical treatment for his nemesis Aleksei A. Navalny, after a performance blending fear and force to affirm his power. This photo taken from a video released on Friday by the Russian Defense Ministry shows armored vehicles boarding landing vessels after drills in Crimea.Credit...Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, via Associated Press Apr...

Biden Sanctions on Russian Debt Called a ‘First Salvo’ That Send a Message The curbs on U.S. banks’ purchases of some bonds apply to a small portion of the market but could signal a sharper aim at Russia’s access to global capital. The United States was able to sever Iran from the global financial system, in part because the American dollar is the world’s reserve currency. Isolating Russia would be more difficult.Credit...Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times April 15...

U.S. Imposes Stiff Sanctions on Russia, Blaming It for Major Hacking Operation © Dimitar Dilkoff/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Russian Central Bank headquarters in Moscow. WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday announced tough new sanctions on Russia and formally blamed the country’s premier intelligence agency for the sophisticated hacking operation that breached American government agencies and the nation’s largest companies. In the broadest effort yet to give ...

Video Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan a day after President Biden announced his decision to withdraw from the country by Sept. 11. Mr. Blinken visited the U.S. Embassy and delivered remarks reassuring that the U.S. would continue to support the country.CreditCredit...Afghan Presidential Palace, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Thursday, a day after President Biden...

Covid-19: Some Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Doses on Hold in U.S. After Factory Mix-Up Last Updated April 1, 2021, 5:05 a.m. ETApril 1, 2021, 5:05 a.m. ET France will enter its third national lockdown. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is highly effective in adolescents, a study suggests. This briefing has ended. An Emergent BioSolutions lab in Baltimore.Credit...Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post, via Getty Images Workers at a plant in Baltimore manufacturing two coronavirus vaccines accident...

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Israel Secretly Agrees to Fund Vaccines for Syria as Part of Prisoner Swap To secure the release of an Israeli civilian held in Syria, Israel agreed to finance a supply of Russian-made Covid-19 vaccines for Damascus, an official said. Municipal workers disinfecting surfaces on a street in Damascus, Syria, last month. Syria has yet to begin a Covid-19 vaccine rollout. Credit...Youssef Badawi/EPA, via Shutterstock Published Feb. 20, 2021Updated Feb. 24, 2021 JERUSALEM — When a young Israeli wo...