Steve Hendrix

• Middle East

While promising to pause some aspects of the overhaul, the right-wing government still vowed to enact measures to give it more say in selecting Supreme Court judges.

• Europe

Thousands of disabled Ukrainians, many of them elderly, are being institutionalized after being displaced by the war. Social service providers are overwhelmed.

• Europe

Ukrainian Sgt. Volodymyr Rusyn spent the day visiting his troops on the front lines — and making sure his wife got the flowers.

• Europe

In an interview, fighters from the Russian mercenary group said they were recruited from jail, sent to fight in Ukraine and shown violent videos of alleged traitors being executed.

• Europe

Thousands of returnees have partially repopulated the area where Moscow is waging its fiercest fighting intent on seizing the entire Donetsk region as its own.

• Europe

In Donetsk, gains or losses are measured in feet, not miles. So even if Russian fighters take Bakhmut, new Ukrainian defenses mean they will not get much farther.

• Europe

It is unclear precisely where Russia's much-anticipated next attack will start, so Ukrainian forces are readying defenses across a vast and varied winter landscape.

• Europe

With a surge of strikes on Vuhledar, located where the eastern and southern fronts meet, Russia may be preparing a major offensive to achieve Vladimir Putin's war goals

• Retropolis

Volunteers and archeologists cleared brush from the woods, bringing sunlight to long-hidden stones that marked the graves of those who were enslaved.