Killer robots don’t look like this, for now.
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AI enabled weapons (LAWs) are still in their adolescence, which means we still have a chance to influence their development. But we need to act now.
In the remains of her classroom, 16-year-old Khrystyna Ignatova visits her desk in the Chernihiv School #21, in Chernihiv, Ukraine.
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The war in Ukraine affects everyone – including teachers and students, who are meeting the challenges with their people’s famed determination.
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There are a range of new flashpoints and ongoing deadly conflicts the world has largely ignored due to the focus on Ukraine.
Every little hurts.
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In the weeks after the war, there was talk of famine. Why hasn’t it happened?
A worker sweeps up debris in the library of a school building following a missile strike in Kharkiv on Sept. 3, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Schools are a key battleground in the Ukrainian resistance against Russia’s invasion.
Bakhmut: months of fierce fighting has led to a bloody stalemate in this key city in the Donbas region.
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Ukraine’s morale remains high, despite months of bombardment and drone strikes.
National identity: despite Moscow’s best efforts, Ukrainians are increasingly looking to the west for their future.
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Moscow’s fears that Ukraine was turning towards the west prompted the invasion. This has backfired dramatically.
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How can you get your kids to read this summer? Research has found they respond well to reading non-fiction – so we’ve gathered 6 top non-fiction books, recommended by the kids themselves.
Workers install solar panels for a floating photovoltaic solar plant in Germany in April 2022.
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Look for significant progress in 2023 in two key areas, writes a veteran of international climate policy.
The festive season in Kyiv.
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Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
Nuanced relationship: Kazakhstan president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin, November 2022.
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The war in Ukraine is threatening Russia’s relationship with its neighbour Kazakhstan.
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Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
Cargo ships anchored in the Marmara Sea await to cross the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey. The country is checking all ships’ protection and indemnity insurance coverage before letting them enter its waters, a blow to Russia amid smart new western sanctions.
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Just like how tax evasion brought down Al Capone, denying Russian ships protection and indemnity insurance could deliver a crushing economic blow to Vladimir Putin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Switzerland’s arrangement with the EU involves legal compromises the UK isn’t willing to make.
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.