Flooded houses in the town of Oleshky, Ukraine, June 10, 2023. The floods followed the catastrophic explosion that destroyed the Kakhovka Dam in the southern Kherson region.
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Russia is committing ecocide in Ukraine, an act of war aimed at inflicting serious damage on the environment.
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The government’s push for closer relations with the US could be undone by a Trump victory in November.
Israelis with photos of people killed and taken captive by Hamas militants at the Nova music festival in southern Israel, displayed at the site of the event.
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People have long visited places like Auschwitz-Birkenau and, more recently, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Now we’re seeing ‘solidarity tours’ to Israel’s October 7 sites and war tourism in Ukraine.
Families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza hold their pictures in a protest.
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War is escalating in the Middle East and continuing in Ukraine, Sudan and Myanmar. Gun violence in the US is ballooning, too. How do our cultures nurture violence? And can we change?
Smoke rises after shelling near a seaport in Berdyansk, Ukraine, after the reported sinking of a Russian navy ship.
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Russia is becoming more reliant on naval support from China, limiting Moscow’s sea-power reach.
Youth take part in an action to mark the ninth anniversary of the Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has increasingly turned to education and membership groups to promote patriotism and loyalty among the country’s youth.
Pro-Ukraine LGBTQ marchers at the Pride event in London in 2022.
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Ukraine’s LGBTQ soldiers continue to face discrimination and abuse, despite some changing attitudes.
CHess began in India, now India dominates the modern game.
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Over the centuries Chess has become a proxy for geopolitical conflict where rivalries are played out over a board game.
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A digest of some of the best of our recent coverage of the conflict in Ukraine.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, has been subjected to regular bombardment over nearly three years of war.
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Buffer zones are supposed to be mutual agreements, not imposed by one side of a conflict on its rival.
Ursula von der Leyen has announced a security focus for the new commission.
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Ursula von der Leyen has announced that the EU will have a dedicated defence commissioner for the first time.
A British publisher commissioned photographs of the army in the Crimean War to be used as the basis for oil paintings. Cornet Wilkin, 11th Hussars, by Roger Fenton.
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A study of images of soldiers from the Crimean to the Iraq War examined how images may be just as significant for what they leave out as for what they reveal about soldiers as individuals.
Satellite image of the aftermath of a large series of explosions at an ammunition depot in Toropets, Russia, on Sept. 18, 2024.
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The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a war of attrition, and most analyses have assumed that plays to Russia’s advantage. But that view disregards the importance of Ukrainian resolve and morale.
Latin American countries are bracing themselves for a wave of Venezuelan migrants.
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A new wave of migration from Venezuela is probably on its way – here’s how governments across Latin America should respond.
President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un make a toast.
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In Autocracy Inc., Pulitzer winner Anne Applebaum suggests there is a “network” among the world’s autocrats, which they use to further their aims and undermine democracy. But is there?
Ukrainian president Zelensky meets with US secretary of state Antony Blinken and British foreign secretary David Lammy.
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A round-up of all the latest stories relating to the Ukraine war.
A Ukrainian soldier patrols in the centre square in Sudzha in the Kursk region of Russia in August 2024.
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Putin could have used the Ukraine offensive into Kursk as an excuse to ramp up conscription.
Inside the studio during an RT broadcast.
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A new study found that pliant local media in Ukraine and Georgia was manipulated by Moscow to present anti-Western narratives.
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The difference between a win for Trump and a Harris White House has huge implications for the conflict.
Russia president Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on the Kursk incursion on Aug. 8, 2024.
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From terrorist attacks to submarine disasters, Russia’s longtime leader has shown to be vulnerable in the face of crises.