Olaf Scholz did not elaborate on specifics during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday but he did pledge a new round of financial assistance to Kyiv.
Prosecutors say the looting of the fund bankrolled lavish spending on jewels, art and real estate. The spoils even helped finance Hollywood movies, including the 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street."
Who gets to play for a country's national team at the Winter Olympics is an especially complicated question in China, where issues of identity, ethnicity, and citizenship are at stake.
It was under control. And then it wasn't. In her new book Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History, VIdya Krishnan shows how "we repeat the same disease-spreading mistakes over and over."
The two leaders spoke by phone for roughly an hour after the State Department ordered most of its embassy staff in Kyiv to leave. U.S. officials are concerned a Russian invasion is imminent.
The Philippines has only one entrant in the Beijing Olympics: Asa Miller, who will take part in the men's giant slalom Sunday. But there's growing interest in winter sports in the tropical country.
Scott Simon speaks to Foreign Policy columnist Lynne O'Donnell about President Biden's decision to give half of Afghanistan's $7 billion in frozen assets to victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.