Stand by me: Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky will need to work hard to retain the support of his countries allies.
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A round up of our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past fortnight.
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Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky admits there is no end in sight to the war with Russia.
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By the time Australia has its first nuclear-powered attack submarine, Russia’s Pacific fleet will have grown to 45 warships.
Pressure: Joe Biden’s package of military aid for Ukraine has hit a roadblock in the US senate.
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Nato is showing ominous signs of becoming war weary. It must maintain its support for Ukraine.
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Navalny survived poisoning only to be arrested and sentenced to more than 30 years in jail. Now he has disappeared.
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The International Olympic Committee has ruled politically-neutral individual athletes are eligible, but some nations aren’t happy about it.
The world according to Vladimir Putin.
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The Russian leader spoke to about 600 journalists and took questions from the public.
Viktor Orbán arriving at the EU summit in Brussels.
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The EU decision to open negotiations with Ukraine is good news for President Zelensky, even if it is not the full package he wanted.
A U.S. Justice Department image showing Victor Manuel Rocha during a meeting with an FBI undercover employee.
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Cuba gets less attention as an espionage threat than Russia or China, but is a potent player in the spy world. Its intelligence service has already penetrated the US government at least once.
Russian riot police detain gay rights activists during World Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia in St. Petersburg in 2019.
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Far-right American Christians once viewed Soviet culture as a menace to their values. Today, some authoritarian-leaning admirers wish their country were more like Putin’s Russia.
Display monitors show the result of voting at the United Nations General Assembly on Dec. 12, 2023, in favour of a resolution calling on Israel to uphold legal and humanitarian obligations in its war with Hamas.
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In war time, the type of conflict determines what formal rules of war apply. But how to determine the nature of the conflict?
Giovanna Stevens grew up harvesting salmon at her family’s fish camp on Alaska’s Yukon River. Climate change is interrupting hunting and fishing traditions in many areas.
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The early heat melted snow and warmed rivers, heating up the land and downstream ocean areas. The effects harmed salmon fisheries, melted sea ice and fueled widespread fires.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony to present medals at the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 8, 2023.
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Polls suggest many Russians remain supportive of Putin and the war in Ukraine. Economic realities and western double standards likely play a big role.
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Serbia’s nationalist government seeks re-election. If it succeeds, Europe may be poised for renewed war in the Balkans.
A memorial is left inside a bomb shelter near the Supernova music festival, where eyewitnesses reported Hamas members gang-raping and killing women.
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Sexual violence can be used as a weapon of war. Hamas’ use of sexual violence was likely meant to show its power over Israeli women and girls and to humiliate Israeli men and Israel’s military.
A woman prays in front of skulls at a memorial in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, marking the genocide that happened under the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s.
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While the Genocide Convention has helped raise awareness and prevent ethnic violence from escalating, it has not stopped many accusations of genocides, including violence in Darfur and in Ukraine.
Disinformation campaigns use emotional and rhetorical tricks to try to get you to share propaganda and falsehoods.
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Disinformation campaigns often use a set of rhetorical devices that you can learn to spot, like conspiracy narratives, good versus evil framing, and revealed secrets.
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin at the Piskarevsky Cemetery laying flowers at the World War II memorial in January 2014.
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Putin’s ideological propaganda leans heavily on Russian history
Russian Central Bank Chief Elvira Nabiullina attends a meeting on economic issues in Moscow in February 2023. Central bank reserves are among the Russian state assets that could be seized under Canadian law.
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Who will pay to rebuild Ukraine? Canada is the first to pass a law allowing Russian state assets to be seized to rebuild Ukraine, but will it discourage Russia from ending the war?
Defiant: Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, at the OSCE ministers’ meeting in North Macedonia on November 30.
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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe appears to be on its last legs.