After about six months of trying — navigating appointments with fertility doctors around her limited leave — “it finally happened,” said Olena, who like other women interviewed for this article requested that only her first name be used for reasons of military protocol.

It began on the edgy margins of a mainstream festival — which it's now eclipsed. But nearly 80 years on, performers and spectators say rising costs threaten the Fringe's alternative vibe.

This approach is based on the premise that owning the physical infrastructure is the key to independence. But anyone who believes that servers and processors alone will secure European sovereignty misunderstands the nature of global technological interdependence and overlooks Europe’s true digital strengths.

And what does this apparent creeping of media power in those regions mean in an age with a shifting world order? "[Countries outside the West are] very fertile territory intellectually, culturally, and ideologically [because of their] residual anti-American,

Two-time Oscar nominee Tamara Kotevska, whose latest feature premieres at the Venice Film Festival, is prepping a documentary set in Siberia.

Governments from Mexico to Chile are starting to levy low-cost imports in a bid to protect local businesses from the glut coming out of China’s bloated factories. Spearheading the onslaught are Chinese e-commerce companies Temu,

The infrastructure that powered the last century of urban life was not built for the one we’re in. Even the world’s newest subway systems are getting harsh lessons in the designs needed to survive an overheating Earth.

Jihan K’s new documentary is about the 1993 disappearance of her father, an exiled leader of the opposition against the Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.