Ukraine has reportedly used cardboard drones built from flatpack kits to attack a Russian airfield.
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The drones are light, cheap, easy to transport and have proved to be highly effective as a weapon of war.
Landmine contamination is a problem which has blighted many countries for decades after the conflict has ended.
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Landmines are killing thousands in Ukraine. Clearing the land and making it safe for people is likely to take decades.
Russian president Vladimir Putin speaking via video link at the 2023 Brics summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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As the Brics alliance signs up new members, Russia continues to win over more allies.
People carry a body bag away from the wreckage of a crashed private jet near the Russian village of Kuzhenkinoi on Aug. 24, 2023. Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Group, reportedly died in the crash along with nine other people.
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The core members of the Wagner Group, who are loyal to the late Yevgeny Prigozhin, will likely seek revenge against Vladimir Putin for his death. Is the Russian leader now living on borrowed time?
Face masks depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin displayed at a souvenir shop in St. Petersburg, Russia. Prigozhin reportedly died in a plane crash on Aug. 23.
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Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Group, reportedly died when a private jet he was said to be on crashed on Aug. 23, 2023, killing all 10 people on board.
Eight GOP candidates for president after they entered the debate hall in Milwaukee on Aug. 23, 2023.
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From immigration and federal spending to Ukraine and the state of American schools, eight GOP presidential candidates had a lot to say.
Wagner group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, photographed on June 24, 2023, in Russia.
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The lesson in the presumed death of the mercenary leader two months after his mutiny against Putin: Don’t make yourself an enemy of Russia’s leader.
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Schemes to house Ukrainian refugees are set to last for three years. But halfway through, they are already proving unsuccessful.
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Does New Zealand have more to lose than gain by joining ‘pillar two’ of the AUKUS security pact? The next government will have to decide, with serious implications for the country’s foreign policy.
A Ukrainian flag is displayed in front of a destroyed house in eastern Ukraine in October 2022.
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An analysis of tweets posted by the Ukrainian national government and the Kyiv city government in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 shows a national resilience.
Slow but steady: Volodymyr Zelensky receives a briefing on the counter-offensive from officers in Zaporizhzhia.
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Updates from various frontline sectors suggest progress for Ukraine’s counter-offensive. But it’s slow progress.
Demonstrators attend a pro-Ukraine rally in Taiwan in February 2023.
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Foreign policy experts are divided on whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes it more or less likely that China will launch a similar attack on Taiwan. Here are the arguments on both sides.
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Drones are both a destructive battlefield weapon and deliver a psychological boost when used on Russian cities.
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Some western companies have continued operating in Russia since it invaded Ukraine, while others have left the country altogether.
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The reality is that cooperation has deepened, but one side seems reluctant to acknowledge that with a formal deal.
Ukraine’s diplomatic efforts have included specific representation to the Arab world.
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Ukraine was able to advance its plan for peace with an audience including China and other Brics nations.
The U.S. has provided Ukraine more than $75 billion in military and other aid to support its war efforts.
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An analysis of over 1,000 headlines shows key differences in how US media portray the aggressors and victims in the two conflicts.
Russian president Vladimir Putin visits the Kerch bridge linking Russian-occupied Crimea with the Russian mainland, after an attack damaged it.
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About 100,000 Crimean Tatars died as part of a massive deportation of these people by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin towards the end of the second world war.
Refugees from Ukraine arriving at the Polish border in 2022.
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More young Poles want the country to stay neutral in the Ukraine war than in 2022, a survey says.
On the attack: a Ukrainian tank crew on the front line near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s summer push is now showing signs of real progress, but don’t expect an end to the war anytime soon.