The BBC had argued, unsuccessfully, that it had the right to identify the agent because it was in the public interest for women to know who the agent was, and that doing so would protect potential victims. https://t.co/VATuUM5cGd

Thanks to cheap supplies of Russian oil and gas, the Hungarian conglomerate MOL said it would pay dividends of $652 million to shareholders. More than $65 million of that will go to a foundation that hosted Tucker Carlson at a right-wing festival. https://t.co/mTOTCtnFp8

The Kremlin has long orchestrated Russia’s court system as an instrument for oppression and propaganda, using a veneer of legality to silence critics and to impose its version of events.  https://t.co/DkpXw1mBOh

In March and April, the photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin made a 4,000-mile journey through war-torn Ukraine with the writer James Verini for an article about Kharkiv, the city on the country’s eastern flank that has been devastated by Russian shelling. https://t.co/jUweKhUIKF

The UN's top human rights official, Michelle Bachelet, will next week visit China, including the Xinjiang region. But as concerns escalate over the country's human rights record, what she will do and hopes to achieve there remains unclear. https://t.co/ZHfbuup3Li

Eran esposos y padres, trabajadores de tiendas de abarrotes y fábricas. Al menos ocho hombres ucranianos fueron detenidos y ejecutados intencionalmente por paracaidistas rusos en Bucha en marzo, según nueva evidencia obtenida por The New York Times. https://t.co/qYmKANBsTT

One of the starkest changes came from the education ministry, where Jean-Michel Blanquer — who argued vocally over his years there that American concepts on race, gender, post-colonialism and “wokism” were tearing France apart — was replaced by Pap Ndiaye. https://t.co/fL0ErikR8l

Russia took new steps to gird for an escalating struggle with the West over the war in Ukraine, moving to scrap the military recruitment age limit and severing gas supplies to Finland. https://t.co/6gpPFXWFEI

A team of New York Times correspondents spent a year scouring archives and libraries on three continents and learned what Haiti was forced to pay after overthrowing France and abolishing slavery. https://t.co/ZfUXznrb35

“Russian courts no longer have anything to do with the legal bodies of a democratic state,” said a prominent human rights lawyer. “They are not guided by the law, but only by political needs, political purposes.” https://t.co/21mgFdYMn1

Un millón de trabajadoras de la salud atienden a las mujeres y niños más vulnerables de India. Viajan por terrenos difíciles, trabajan por poca paga y, a veces, la labor les cuesta la vida. https://t.co/VVSWDZLDaO

A potentially devastating defection from Israel’s fragile governing coalition has thrown a political lifeline to Benjamin Netanyahu. https://t.co/rSwliiREFh

The BBC had argued, unsuccessfully, that it had the right to identify the agent because it was in the public interest for women to know who the agent was, and that doing so would protect potential victims. https://t.co/rbAJFB9Oee

Thanks to cheap supplies of Russian oil and gas, the Hungarian conglomerate MOL said it would pay dividends of $652 million to shareholders. More than $65 million of that will go to a foundation that hosted Tucker Carlson at a right-wing festival. https://t.co/FPHJPpunX5

As Sri Lanka’s central bank confirmed that the country had officially defaulted on its foreign debt, protesters remained defiant in their call for the president to resign.  https://t.co/hZWtiou5fi

“Every single case which Putin or his allies would like to manipulate will be manipulated,” said Ilya Novikov, a former Moscow lawyer. “You should not start by asking what are the charges, you should start by asking what is the outcome.” https://t.co/3Y9Yy5EgfM

While Australian voters are most focused on cost-of-living issues, the opposition Labor Party has made the election a referendum on the conduct of Prime Minister Scott Morrison. https://t.co/MUyEHZpdfP

“I can’t change or condemn the current situation in China,” one woman who is looking to emigrate said. “And if you can’t change it, all you can do is run.” https://t.co/0bJSRGR3ds

A British lawmaker was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of rape and other sexual assault offenses, according to British media reports, the latest in a string of sexual misconduct allegations against members of Parliament in recent weeks. https://t.co/sxUP1irNs4

In the euphoria over Russia’s retreat from the city of Kharkiv  there was talk of Ukrainian troops marching on to the Russian border only 25 miles away. But with determined Russian resistance on the outskirts of the city, that seems to have been premature. https://t.co/NiBOxCcbIt