What I saw as the U.S. bombed Venezuela

From within Caracas, our reporter describes the chaos and uncertainty amid air strikes, as the United States captures dictator Nicolás Maduro.

How Holodomor famine still scars Ukraine food habits

Nearly a century after a famine that killed millions, Ukrainians still carry out practices shaped by that trauma, especially as Russia’s treatment of POWs echoes tactics from the Holodomor era.

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Attached: 1 image Explore how Ukrainian scientists, like Svitozar, advance polar research by studying wildlife and climate change, even amidst adversity, via the link: https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/inside-ukraines-antarctic-expedition

OCEAN ICE (@oceaniceeu.bsky.social)

Ocean Cryosphere Exchanges in ANtarctica: Impacts on Climate and the Earth system, OCEAN ICE, funded by Horizon Europe Partners from UK funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK Horizon Europe guarantee

Are we in Cold War 2.0?

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum doesn’t think so. Now autocracies are less ideological. What they do share, she writes in a new book, is a way of stealing - like corrupt corporations.

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Lessons I learned in a Ukrainian military safe house

Ross recounts the cold mornings translating for an elite Ukrainian reconnaissance unit; Myroslava walks us through the annual tulip-giving that is part of International Women’s Day in Ukraine!