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Millions have fled Russia’s invasion, but where housing is expensive and scarce, countries like Estonia are paying shipping firms to offer refugees safe but tight quarters.

Wednesday’s vote for the candidacy of two Western European nations took a crucial step toward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (Image credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

A damaged vehicle in 2021, at the site of a US drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. | Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua via Getty Images Ayman al-Zawahiri is dead. America’s globe-spanning counterterrorism operations will go on. Over the weekend, a US drone fired

A vial of the oral polio vaccine. | Ezra Acayan/Getty Images How a polio case in the US affects global eradication efforts. For the first time in almost a decade, a case of polio was confirmed in the United States.

China’s determination to take control of Taiwan is often cited as one of the likeliest causes of World War Three – a conflict which, it is widely accepted, could even end human civilisation altogether.

Chinese military exercises near Taiwan have encroached on its territory and amount to a blockade of its sea and airspace, the defence ministry has said.

China has begun another series of military exercises around Taiwan as tensions continue to rise following a 24-hour visit to the island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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Senate votes to approve NATO membership for Sweden and Finland  The Washington Post McConnell to senators looking for excuse to oppose Finland, Sweden NATO bids: ‘Good luck’  The Hill Senate votes to ratify NATO membership for Sweden and Finland  CNN A Unified Senate,

Rural Republicans joined suburban Democrats to create huge turnout and a broad coalition that voted to preserve abortion rights by a fat margin.