Many Russians who initially sought refuge in Turkey amid the Ukraine war have since left due to residency challenges and rising living costs.Turkey, initially a popular destination, saw a significant decline in Russian residents, with numbers dropping from 154,000 to 96,000.Difficulties in obtaining residency permits and Turkey’s economic challenges have…

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has voiced frustration over Western allies’ delay in making military decisions regarding support for Ukraine.Zelenskyy urged allies to intercept Russian missiles over Ukraine and permit Kyiv to utilize Western weapons against enemy military forces.He also proposed neighboring NATO countries’ armed forces intercept incoming Russian missiles over Ukrainian…

The first Australian government flight from New Caledonia landed in Brisbane on the evening of Tuesday, May 21, after evacuating people from the French territory which has experienced a week of deadly riots, sparked by electoral changes by the French government in Paris.Around 3,200 people are waiting to leave or…

Anatoly Maslov, a Russian physicist, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his alleged involvement in researching super-high flight speeds.This is the most recent in a series of treason cases that Russia has pursued against scientists researching super-high flight speeds.Maslov was a top scientist at the Khristianovich Institute…

The extreme heatwave in Mexico is not only affecting the environment, it’s wreaking havoc on the howler monkeys and causing them to fall dead out of trees, the Associated Press reported. “They were falling out of the trees like apples. They were in a state of severe dehydration, and they died…

An extensive report by Human Rights Watch says China is accelerating the forced urbanization of Tibetan villagers and herders, adding to state government and independent reports of efforts to assimilate them through control over their language and traditional Buddhist culture.The non-profit organization cited a trove of Chinese internal reports contradicting…

Thailand’s National Museum hosted a welcome-home ceremony Tuesday for two ancient statues that were illegally trafficked from Thailand by a British collector of antiquities and were returned from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.The objects — a tall bronze figure called the “Standing Shiva” or the “Golden…

German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love affair during the final years of East Germany’s existence.The novel beat five other finalists, chosen from 149 submitted novels, for the prize, which recognizes fiction…

In 2018, death certificates confirmed that 20-year-old Patrick Dabbagh and his father Mazen would never return home, 5 years after they were taken away at night by Syrian soldiers.A Paris court is seeking to determine whether Syrian intelligence officials were responsible for their deaths.The hearings, which started this week, are…

Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who brought female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the 1990s and early 2000s, was assaulted in prison and has been hospitalized in life-threatening condition, authorities said Tuesday.A 51-year-old inmate was in custody for the assault Sunday at…