A powerful enough laser beam could blind spy satellites.
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Build a powerful enough laser, and you can shine it into space. Aim it well, and you can blind satellites.
Odessa’s grain silos are full as a Russian blockade has stopped ships leaving during the Ukraine war.
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Russia is attempting to win back friends by opening up its Black Sea blockade to allow grain out.
Africa’s biggest wheat importers will benefit the most from a resumption of Ukraine grain shipments.
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If Russia keeps its word, the benefits will be immediate. Grain prices could soften as more grain supplies become available to the world market.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (L).
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Five essential reads on Russia’s relationship with Africa.
South Korean Hyeonmu ballistic missiles on display at the Korean War Memorial Museum in Seoul.
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Concerns about aggression from North Korea and China might drive some Asian countries to develop their own nuclear arsenals.
Another big table, but this time Vladimir Putin isn’t sitting at the head.
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A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
All smiles: Russian president Vladimir Putin, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan meeting in Tehran, July 2022.
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This is not so much an alliance as a coalition of the isolated.
United States, Russia, Europe…historical tensions are resurfacing.
The United States still sees itself as the world’s one and only superpower… The reality is now quite different: for several years, the country has been undergoing a slow but inevitable decline.
Scenes like this one are becoming increasingly common in the Arctic.
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Polar bears are increasingly seeking sustenance in human trash because of melting sea ice and a loss of hunting opportunities. The result is a rise in human-bear conflict – and dead bears.
A woman runs from a house on fire after shelling in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine in June 2022.
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Russia and other countries and political regimes have a long history of forcing people to move, mostly for security and economic gains.
Members of the Levica party march on a government building during a protest in Skopje, North Macedonia, on July 6, 2022. Thousands of people marched for several nights after French President Emmanuel Macron announced a proposal to enable the country’s admission into the EU that many North Macedonians find controversial.
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The EU is creating resentment in North Macedonia over its feud with Bulgaria. In the midst of the Russia-Ukraine war, it will only serve to benefit Russia in its efforts to undermine the EU.
The Serb leader in Bosnia & Herzogovina, Milorad Dodik, has been an outspoken supporter of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.
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Russia is doing oil and gas deals in the Balkans, where ethnic tensions are on the rise.
While attending the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced sanctions against Russia
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New research shows that at least half of Canadians have encountered pro-Kremlin propaganda online and that those who hold left-leaning views are less susceptible to the Kremlin’s disinformation.
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A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
A pro-EU protest in Tbilisi, Georgia, in June 2022.
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Russia’s neighbours are increasingly worried about the threat of invasion.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, left, with Vladimir Putin, accused the West of supporting Nazi ideas in May 2022.
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What do Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Moldova and Kazakhstan have in common with Ukraine? Russian allegations that they are all overrun by Nazis.
China’s president Xi Jingping has brokered numerous relationships with African nations during his years in office.
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World leaders should worry about the security risks and economic balance of power with China.
Walkout: Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov.
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This was the first time Russia, China and the west have come face to face since the invasion of Ukraine. It did not go well.
Sinister terminology: Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin last month.AP Photo/, Pool) READ LESS.
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The Russian president might claim to be confronting hate speech, but he is drawing on the ideas of anti-Semitic extremists
Rescue workers stand on the rubble following a Russian rocket attack on a residential apartment block, in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine on July 10, 2022.
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Those on the political left are conflicted: Supporting military aid to Ukraine involves siding with U.S. imperialism, but opposing military aid means condoning Russian atrocities in Ukraine.