Turkey: Suicide Bombing at U.S. Embassy in Ankara A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device outside the U.S. embassy in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, killing at least two people. The attack struck one of the country’s most heavily secured diplomatic compounds, raising immediate questions about embassy security protocols in a region already contending with spillover violence…
ro-democracy and human rights rallies in St. Petersburg, Russia. Some activists have taken to calling her “the grandmother of the opposition.” A Decade of Solitary Protest Elena Andreyevna Osipova, 69, first stepped into opposition activism in the years following Vladimir Putin’s initial rise to power, and her presence at Russian protest movements has been remarkably…
The first-ever European Games opened in Baku this week with an extravagant ceremony featuring a Lady Gaga performance and a flaming torch lit by President Ilham Aliyev — a spectacle human rights organizations say was designed to project a progressive, modern image for a government that has spent the past year jailing the journalists and…
Twelve Chicago parents, grandmothers, and community organizers ended a 34-day hunger strike this week over the fate of Dyett High School — but the underlying fight over what kind of school will actually reopen in the Bronzeville neighborhood is far from settled. A School District’s Decade of Disinvestment Walter H. Dyett High School had served…
A ceasefire that had brought a fragile calm to eastern Ukraine for much of the spring collapsed into renewed heavy fighting this month, as clashes around the government-held town of Marinka and shelling across Donetsk pushed the death toll from more than a year of conflict past 6,400 — even as diplomats and monitors alike…
As the Dakota Access Pipeline fight in North Dakota reaches a lull, a new pipeline battle is taking shape 1,500 miles away in the swamps of southern Louisiana — and opponents there are borrowing directly from the playbook that made Standing Rock a national story. A Map Built From a Year of Accidents Ahead of…
The arts-and-crafts retailer Michaels announced Thursday that a malware attack may have compromised the data of some 2.6 million customers between last May and January — the latest in a string of major retail data breaches that has kept Congress scrambling for months to figure out what, if anything, it should do about it. A…
A federal appeals court has ruled that regulators cannot keep exempting the Indian Point nuclear plant from fire safety rules behind closed doors — a decision that could force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to open a practice it has used at dozens of plants nationwide to public scrutiny for the first time. A Safety Standard…
Across much of Sub-Saharan Africa, the biggest threat to a farmer’s harvest often isn’t drought, pests, or a failed crop — it’s what happens after the harvest is already in. Smallholder farmers across the continent lose more than 30 percent of their fresh fruits and vegetables to spoilage before they ever reach a buyer, according…
The East Los Angeles-based band Quetzal, known for blending Chicano rock with son jarocho and a long history of politically engaged songwriting, withdrew from a scheduled performance at an event called Fiesta Shalom — a decision consistent with the cultural boycott principles the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement has asked international and domestic artists…