The world’s attention may be focused on the fighting in Ukraine and the posturing over Taiwan, but there’s plenty to worry about closer to home, the commander of U.S. military forces in Latin America said Thursday.

Vladimir Putin’s close ally, Yevgeny Prigozhin once put a chef in hospital after a beating over stale tomatoes, according to an eyewitness.

With refugee resettlement organizations stretched thin, the U.S. is trying a different approach. A private sponsorship program called Welcome Corps will let groups of regular people sponsor refugees.

In France, millions of workers took to the streets in protest at President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed pension reforms that would see the minimum retirement age go from 62 to 64

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said late Thursday that he expected “strong decisions” on further Western arms supplies at a key meeting of allies at the US Ramstein airbase in Germany on Friday.

Dr. Müller and a colleague shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics for breakthroughs in superconductors, which allow electrons to flow with no resistance.