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U.S. Expands Sanctions on Russia as G7 Leaders Gather
The Biden administration is taking new measures aimed at stopping China from helping the Kremlin sustain its war effort against Ukraine. U.S. officials hope European nations will take similar steps.
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America Isn’t Leading the World
After four years of Donald Trump, Joe Biden was supposed to restore the United States to a position of global leadership. By many conventional standards of Washington, he has delivered. He anticipated Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and adroitly rallied ...
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Russia Releases Female Prison Inmates to Join Ukraine War
Tens of thousands of male convicts have been freed to fight in Ukraine. It is not clear if a small contingent of female volunteers released from a prison portends wider use of female soldiers.
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Putin, at Economic Forum, Again Talks About Nuclear War
The Russian leader’s chatter about nuclear weapons has picked up since the U.S. allowed Ukraine to use its conventional weapons against military targets in Russia.
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Forty Years Later, Biden Seeks to Echo Reagan’s Legacy of American Leadership
At Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, President Biden plans to follow one of the former president’s most iconic speeches with his own testimonial to democracy and the need to resist isolationism.
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As Fighting Rages in Ukraine, a Struggle Is On for Artillery Supremacy
Ukrainian forces say U.S. shells are making a difference. Across the border, they say, Russia is trying to get its artillery nearer targets like the city of Kharkiv.
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Biden to Meet With Zelensky as Ukraine Seeks Revival on Battlefield
The two presidents are scheduled to sit down in France, where they are visiting to mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy invasion during World War II.
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Russia Detains a French National Suspected of Collecting Military Data
The detention is the latest in a series in which foreigners have been arrested or held against their will in Russia, exacerbating tensions with the West.
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Moscow Could Target Countries Supplying Weapons to Ukraine, Putin Says
President Vladimir V. Putin said that since Western governments were allowing long-range missiles to be used on Russia, it could do the same.
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A Russian American Is Sentenced in Russia Over Social Media Posts
The latest detention of an American national in Russia has renewed fears that the Kremlin is seeking to use U.S. citizens as bargaining chips.