Who is the ‘big brother’ now?
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Different translations show the nuances in the relationship between China and Russia over nearly a century.
Ukrainian soldiers prepare to launch a drone.
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The use of unmanned aircraft by both sides has massively increased, changing the nature of the air war.
Brittney Griner on the plane after being released.
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When it comes to prisoner swaps it matters if an individual is guilty of committing the crime or whether there has been a miscarriage of justice. And this is where the Griner case gets tricky.
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These new sanctions target individuals and entities rather than whole countries, in the hope of punishing the true perpetrators and avoiding the incidental suffering of innocent people.
Powerful politicians in the US once called for the dissolution of the CIA. How relevant is it today?
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The audio version of a long form article on the history of the CIA and its relationship with Russia.
Russian president Vladimir Putin honours ‘Russian heroes’ at a function in Moscow.
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Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
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Russia appears to be under increasing pressure on all fronts.
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Ukraine appears to be mounting an operation to retake the tiny headland.
In charge: his war may be increasingly unpopular, but Vladimir Putin still enjoys complete power in Russia.
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Public approval of the war has declined significantly, but the president himself appears safe, for the time being.
The city of Darayya has been destroyed during the Syrian war.
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Renewed military activity in Syria is also stoking a round of alliance building for the Ukraine war.
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Ultimately, Putin’s bequest to his people is grimness, not greatness. The next generation of Russians will be untrusted and unwanted in many of the world’s most prosperous and welcoming nations.
Belarusian volunteers receive military training at the Belarusian Company base in Kyiv, Ukraine, in March 2022.
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Belarusians make up one of the most prominent contingents of foreign fighters in Ukraine. Here’s why they’re fighting and what they hope to achieve for Belarus as well as Ukraine.
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The death of the last leader of the Soviet Union brought tributes, largely from the west. But his real legacy has been misunderstood.
A protest on November 20 in Berlin over the latest attacks of the Turkish military into Kurdish areas of northeastern Syria.
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Turkey’s bombing of northern Syria is worrying both the US and Russia, for different reasons.
An Orthodox Jewish man looks at photographs of Jews murdered during the Holocaust at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Israel.
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There isn’t one, clear-cut way to prevent genocide. But there are effective methods of prevention that governments can take.
Local residents help exhume the body of a 16-year-old Ukrainian girl, killed by Russian forces, in Kherson, Ukraine in November 2022.
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Prosecuting a leader like Vladimir Putin accused of war crimes is difficult. But the trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in the early 2000s offers a potential playbook.
Polish police officers search for missile wreckage in a farmer’s field near where a missile struck, killing two people in the village of Przewodów near the border with Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022.
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The recent military mishap in Poland shows such incidents are bound to happen near war zones. We should be ready for them.
Environmental activists protest against Energy Charter Treaty while its reform is negotiated.
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The Energy Charter Treaty allows fossil fuel investors to sue governments over climate action – prompting EU countries to withdraw.
Staff members work at a newly opened fast-food restaurant in a former McDonald’s outlet in June 2022 in Moscow. It offers most of the same items as McDonald’s and is an example of how Russia is defying western sanctions.
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As Russians come to terms with the seriousness of the war in Ukraine, the Russian economy is weathering the storm of western sanctions.
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The Dutch example in the convictions relating to the MH17 crash is one other courts, including in Australia, should follow in response to Ukrainian war crimes.