After being displaced by drought, nearly 300 people, mostly women, and children arrived at Qansahley camp in Dollow, Jubaland, Somalia.
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About 7.7 million Somalis need emergency aid right now.
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As the conflict deepens, the chances of Russia’s ally being pressured into entering the conflict seem to be growing.
Grain warehouse destroyed by Russian attacks in Kopyliv, Kyiv province, Ukraine, May 28, 2022.
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Countries have used starvation as a war strategy for centuries, historically without being prosecuted. Three experts on hunger and humanitarian relief call for holding perpetrators accountable.
Another thing getting more expensive.
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As if inflation weren’t enough of a problem in general, the insurance industry has a whole different reason to increase premiums.
Dmitry Muratov receiveing the Nobel Prize in Oslo, Norway, 10 December 2021.
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In Russia, a draconian censorship regime makes open dissent impossible. But people are finding ingenious ways to express their opposition to the war in Ukraine.
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The underlying reason for the price increases is the acceleration in the international price of crude oil, linked to the Russian war in the Ukraine.
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Russia’s long-term plan for Ukraine is to draw it away from the west.
Destroyed: a bridge in the town of Chernihiv near Kyiv in the north of Ukraine.
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Russia’s military machine is finding the terrain in the Donbas region extremely challenging.
The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania meeting with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Putin, in Kyiv on June 16.
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A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
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Survey shows that Ukrainians’ attitudes about a peace settlement and any territorial concessions to the Russians differs dependng on their experience of war.
Telegram users in Russia get access to more information than their compatriots who only watch television.
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Most Russians get their news from government-controlled television. But those who look to Telegram, an online platform, are more likely to have views that break from the official position.
‘A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding,’ a 19th-century painting by Russian artist Vassily Maximov.
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The idea of a ‘witch’ was usually female in Western Europe, but not so in Orthodox Russia – partly because of the period’s rigid social hierarchies.
British citizens Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and Moroccan Saaudun Brahim.
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The prosecution and death sentences handed out to two British and one Moroccan national fighting alongside Ukrainian troops contravenes the Geneva Conventions.
Rouble bubble?
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Many predicted Russia’s currency would just keep plunging, but it hasn’t.
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Russia’s military planners were not expecting such fierce Ukrainian resistance, especially in regions it has occupied since 2014.
Ukrainian soldiers meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Treatment of POWs by Ukraine and Russia is breaking international rules.
Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner with Moroccan Brahim Saadoun, who were captured after the siege of the the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
Image taken from footage of the Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic
A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner with Moroccan Brahim Saadoun, who were captured after the siege of the the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
Image taken from footage of the Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic
The two Britons have rights under the laws of war. It’s not clear they are being respected.
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Atrocities are made easier when one country’s troops are taught to despise the people they are invading.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (R) met in Ankara, Turkey on June 8 2022 to discuss Ukrainian grain exports.
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Negotiations between Russia and Turkey to ensure safe passage of Ukrainian grain hint at a new era of global food diplomacy.