Russian rhetoric about Ukraine echoes language used in the second world war by the Soviets seeking to stem independence movements. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin insisted on Ukraine getting a separate vote to the USSR at the United Nations, even though it wasn’t an independent state.
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Putin’s rhetoric over Ukraine has roots in the end of the second world war, attitudes explained by Paul Winterton, a British journalist at the time.
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Many teachers have reported thinking about leaving the profession.
Flags fly outside the UN building in New York.
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The UK is among countries cutting international aid payments, which could affect the world in four key areas: poverty, extremism, democracy and refugees.
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Broad definitions mean almost anything can be classed as antisocial behaviour.
Evaluating what citizen science is involves looking at the concept of science itself.
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Citizen science offers the possibility of a science for the people, by the people. And it could be used to challenge the status quo.
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci.
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A document, which dates to 1452, shows that da Vinci’s father emancipated an enslaved woman named Caterina – Leonardo’s mother.
Rising prices.
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Raising rates to fight inflation involves a time lag so current efforts to bring down prices won’t start having an impact until the next election is approaching.
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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child outlines children’s right to peaceful assembly.
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But there are other techniques professional investigators use to test the plausibility of people’s stories.
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New research finds the COVID pandemic has disproportionately affected the mental health and financial circumstances of adults with long-term mental health problems.
Actress Phyllida Law wears her OBE with actress daughters Sophie and Emma Thompson.
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Industry connections have always made it easier to break into Hollywood. But the problem isn’t just American.
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The deputy prime minister insists he just has high expectations of his staff but that is not what ‘professionalism’ really means.
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Many businesses have been reluctant to invest and expand.
China’s president Xi met with the King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud in 2017.
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Chinese leadership of a peace deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, adds to their power in the region.
The aftermath of heavy rainfall in Chennai, India. November 2021.
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Climate models embed colonial attitudes and massive inequality.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Rwandan minister for foreign affairs, Vincent Biruta, sign an enhanced partnership deal in Kigali, during her visit to Rwanda in March 2023.
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Anthropological fieldwork into ‘outsourced’ asylum measures in Nauru and Guatemala reveal how they actually work - and don’t work - in practice.
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The failure of Silicon Valley Bank has exposed gaps in financial regulation that could be tricky to fill.
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Just 2.5% of the country has been continuously wooded for centuries.
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Finance is not inherently masculine. Rather, it was long constructed as such by the institutions which sought to exclude women.
The Moscow meeting between presidents Xi and Putin seems to signal a deepening of their alliance.
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History shows us why China and Russia want to form a strong alliance.