Ships Pull Back Amid Heightened Risk From U.S.-Iran Strikes
Four days of attacks by both countries forced a sharp decline in the number of vessels navigating through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Colette Shulman, Soviet Analyst With On-the-Ground Insights, Dies at 94
She arrived in Moscow in 1955, two years after Stalin’s death, and spent several years as a journalist covering major events and ordinary …