IN BARRACKS SQUARE in old Helsinki stands an unusual monument to a war. A towering sculpture of a soldier’s winter snowsuit, its polished steel body is pierced with large round holes, as if still standing after a strafing by cannon fire. It is Finland’s national memorial to the winter war of 1939–40. During that conflict,…
Officials from China have avoided direct comment on North Korea’s dispatch of thousands of troops to Russia, where they might help in a conflict that all three countries see as a contest against overcoming American might. China itself is a crucial if undeclared backer of Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, providing technological support for Russia’s…
JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon speaks during the US Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, December 6, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | reuters JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sees risks climbing around the world amid widening conflicts in the Middle East…
Ticket counter at west railway and bus station in Warsaw. Photo: wtp.waw.pl Rrecently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on a train journey from Poland to Ukraine. It may be an odd mode of transport for a Prime Minister, but all the leaders of the world have been taking this train, labeled ‘Rail Force One’, ever…
Washington— President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris greeted three Americans released by Russia in a complex prisoner swap involving 24 people being held in six countries when they arrived on US soil late Thursday. A plane carrying Wall Street Journal reporter Evan GershkovichMarine Paul Whelan and Russian-American radio journalist also Kurmasheva landed at Joint…
Iran has started an influence campaign designed to undercut the candidacy of former President Donald Trump, US officials indicated Monday, in an apparent reprisal of a 2020 effort that US intelligence agencies found with high confidence had been authorized by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The updated came from officials with the Office of the…
