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PHOTO ESSAY: Invisible infrared surveillance technology and those caught in its digital cage

When you unlock a phone, step into view of a security camera or drive past a license plate reader at night, beams of infrared light - invisible to the naked eye — shine onto the unique contours of your face, your body, your license plate lettering.

 

36 jours en mer : récit des naufragés qui ont survécu aux hallucinations, à la soif et au désespoir

Le voyage de Fass Boye, petit village de pêche sénégalaise, jusqu’aux îles Canaries en Espagne, porte d’entrée de l’Union européenne, était censé durer une semaine.

 

36 days at sea: How these castaways survived hallucinations, thirst and desperation

Too often migrants disappear without a trace and witnesses. While accurate figures on the number of deaths do not exist, entire boats have gone missing in the Atlantic, becoming what are known as “invisible shipwrecks.”

 

36 jours en mer : récit des naufragés qui ont survécu aux hallucinations, à la soif et au désespoir

Le voyage de Fass Boye, petit village de pêche sénégalaise, jusqu’aux îles Canaries en Espagne, porte d’entrée de l’Union européenne, était censé durer une semaine.

 

Kyiv investigates allegations Russian forces shot surrendering Ukrainian soldiers

Ukrainian officials have launched an investigation into allegations that Russian forces killed surrendering Ukrainian soldiers, after grainy footage on social media appeared to show two uniformed men being shot at close range.

 

US Defense Secretary Austin meets with Zelenskyy in Kyiv to show steadfast support for Ukraine

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has made an unannounced visit to Ukraine, traveling to Kyiv by train from Poland.

 

Russia ramps up attacks on key cities in eastern Ukraine

Ukraine says Russian forces have ramped up attacks in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to gain ground near two key frontline cities.

 

Russian missiles kill at least 6 in Zelenskyy’s hometown in central Ukraine

Ukrainian officials say Russian ballistic missiles have slammed into an apartment complex and a university building in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown.

 

Ukraine moves official Christmas Day holiday to Dec. 25, denouncing Russian-imposed traditions

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday signed a law moving the official Christmas Day holiday to Dec. 25 from Jan. 7, the day when the Russian Orthodox Church observes it.

 

Moscow blames Kyiv for attacks in south Russia as Kremlin forces hit Ukrainian buildings

Ukrainian and Russian forces battled for a key village in southeastern Ukraine, with Moscow’s forces pounding it with artillery, amid Kyiv’s grinding counteroffensive.

 

Land mines are in place around a Russian-occupied nuclear plant in Ukraine, UN watchdog warns

The U.N. atomic watchdog says its monitors at Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant report seeing anti-personnel mines around the site.

 

Russia says Moscow and Crimea hit by Ukrainian drones while Russian forces bombard Ukraine’s south

Russian authorities have accused Ukraine of launching a drone attack on Moscow during which one of the aircraft fell near the Defense Ministry’s main headquarters.

 

Drone hits Crimean ammunition depot as strikes kill, wound civilians and journalists in Ukraine

A Ukrainian drone strike has caused a massive explosion at an ammunition depot in Russia-annexed Crimea, forcing the evacuation of nearby homes in the latest attack since Moscow canceled a landmark grain deal amid Kyiv’s grinding efforts to retake its occupied territories.

 

Russia targets Ukraine’s farm storage sites after days of hitting Black Sea port facilities

Russian cruise missiles have destroyed farm storage buildings in the Odesa region. Ukrainian officials said three missiles hit early Friday.

 

Russia targets Ukraine’s port of Odesa and calls it payback for a strike on a key bridge to Crimea

Ukraine said its forces shot down Russian drones and cruise missiles targeting the Black Sea port of Odesa in what Moscow called “retribution” for an attack that damaged a crucial bridge to the Crimean Peninsula.

 

Putin says Russia has ‘sufficient stockpile’ of cluster bombs as Ukraine gets its own supply from US

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published Sunday that Russia has a “sufficient stockpile” of cluster munitions, warning that Russia “reserves the right to take reciprocal action” if Ukraine uses the controversial weapons.

 

South Korea to expand support for Ukraine as President Yoon Suk Yeol makes a surprise visit

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has made a surprise visit to Ukraine. Yoon’s office says he traveled there with his wife, Kim Keon Hee, following trips to Lithuania for a NATO summit and to Poland.

 

Ukraine’s president hails the country’s soldiers from Snake Island to mark 500 days of war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has marked the 500th day of the war by hailing the country’s soldiers in a video from a Black Sea island that became the symbol of Ukraine’s resilience in the face of the Russian invasion.

 

Les espoirs d’une vie en Europe s’échouent dans les Caraïbes

BELLE GARDEN, Tobago (AP) — Vers 6h30 ce matin du 28 mai 2021, à quelques kilomètres de la plage de Belle Garden sur l’île des Caraïbes de Tobago, un bateau étroit blanc et bleu dérive sur l’horizon.

 

Adrift in the Atlantic, a boat of death and lost dreams

BELLE GARDEN, Tobago (AP) — Around 6:30 a.m. on May 28, 2021, a couple of miles from Belle Garden Beach on the Caribbean island of Tobago, a narrow white-and-blue boat drifted onto the horizon.

 

Adrift in the Atlantic, a boat of death and lost dreams

BELLE GARDEN, Tobago (AP) — Around 6:30 a.m. on May 28, 2021, off the beach near the Caribbean island of Tobago, a narrow white-and-blue boat drifted onto the horizon.

 

Sitting ducks? Russian military flaws seen in troop deaths

The Russian military’s top brass is under increasing scrutiny as more details emerge of how at least 89 Russian soldiers, and possibly many more, were killed in a Ukrainian artillery attack on a single building.

 

Russia, shaken by Ukrainian strike, could step up drone use

Emergency crews are sifting through the rubble of a building that was struck by Ukrainian rockets, killing at least 63 Russian soldiers.

 

Moscow says Ukrainian rocket strike kills 63 Russian troops

Russia’s defense ministry says 63 of its soldiers have been killed by a Ukrainian strike on a facility in the eastern Donetsk region where military personnel were stationed.

 

Putin, Xi vow closer ties as Russia bombards Ukraine again

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have vowed to deepen their bilateral cooperation against the backdrop of Moscow’s 10-month war in Ukraine.

 

French defense chief visits Ukraine, pledges more support

France’s defense minister has pledged further military support for Ukraine, insisting his government’s backing is unflagging while efforts are also being made with Moscow to reach an eventual negotiated end to Russia’s invasion.

 

Death in Ukraine’s Kharkiv is everywhere, rarely explained

The outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv are beginning to have the feel of an open-air morgue.

 

AP PHOTOS: Ukraine volunteer fighters come from near and far

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — They are old, young, local, foreign, often new to war. Thousands of people have volunteered to join Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces and resist Russia’s invasion.

 

After Russian forces pull back, a shattered town breathes

The bodies of two Russian soldiers lie abandoned in the woods. Ukrainian forces piled atop a tank flash victory signs.

 

Now in power, Taliban set sights on Afghan drug underworld

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Now the uncontested rulers of Afghanistan, the Taliban have set their sights on stamping out the scourge of narcotics addiction, even if by force.

 

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