A tank in the Donbas, an area of eastern Ukraine where armed conflict with Russian forces has been going on since 2014.
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Western society has become strangely unaware of the horrors of modern war, says an expert.
In for the long haul: Ukrainian troops digging in around Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.
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A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
A Russian peacekeeper guards the Lachin corridor connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia.
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Renewed fighting in the South Caucasus has some wondering, “Where are the great powers?”
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is one of the democratic leaders who have not condemned Russia for invading Ukraine.
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South Africa, India and Brazil are not prepared to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine.
Endless battle? Bitter fighting has raged around the town of Bakhmut since the middle of 2022.
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The leaks suggest neither side has the capacity to force an outright victory this year.
The Day of Memory for Truth and Justice is held every year in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires commemorating the victims of the military dictatorship, March 24 1976 to December 10 1983.
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Hundreds of children were stolen from their parents during the dictatorship in Argentina, but over the years some have been reunited with their families.
The 2024 Summer Olympic Games are scheduled to take place from July 26 to Aug. 11 in France.
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The IOC has an opportunity to disavow the violence and illegality of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by extending the platform and status of refugee athletes to Russian and Belarusian athletes.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich being taken into custody on March 30, 2023.
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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is far from the first American journalist to be accused of spying, a media historian explains.
A kindergarten in Kharkiv, Ukraine, destroyed by Russian shelling.
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The deportation of children during war goes to the heart of important and far-reaching human rights conventions. But bringing perpetrators to justice will be a long and complex process.
Finnish military personnel raise their country’s flag at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
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A historian looks at the steps leading up to Finland joining the Western strategic alliance – and what that means for small nations elsewhere.
Welcome to the club: Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg, right, with Finland’s president, Sauli Niinisto.
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Finland has gone from neutral to Nato member in 30 years and Sweden could be set to follow.
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More than 5,000 documents were leaked by an anonymous whistleblower.
Deportation of students, painting by Jacek Malczewski, 1884.
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Centuries before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the expulsion of individuals or even entire nations was used as a targeted instrument of war.
An unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night several years ago. Drone strikes are now a major feature of modern warfare, including in Ukraine and Syria.
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As Russia’s war in Ukraine illustrates, the use of lethal automated weapons, or LAWS, can always be justified. Their ability to desensitize their users from the act of killing, however, shouldn’t be.
Founding father: a statue to Genghis Khan in Tsonjin boldog, Mongolia.
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Mongolia is a landlocked country heavily dependent on Russia and China but fighting to retain its independence and democracy.
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Friendly fire incidents have always been a feature of war, but the array of different countries’ equipment makes it very challenging for Ukrainian troops in the field.
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.
Crimea: as pro-Moscow citizens celebrate nine years of Russian occupation, talk of Kyiv’s plans to retake the peninsula grows louder.
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Russia is reportedly preparing massive defences to prevent a lightning offensive to retake the occupied peninsula.
Saudi Arabia, to the surprise of many, chose China to broker its deal with Iran in March 2023.
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Saudi Arabia’s choice of China to broker its deal with Iran surprised many, but is consistent with its foreign policy agenda.
Georgians protest a foreign agent bill that mirrored a Russian law used to crack down on dissent.
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Foreign agent laws claimed as a tool to fight back against foreign interference can also be used to silence critics and repress law-abiding NGOs, independent media and individuals.