Hackers can disrupt local government services, like this library in Willmar, Texas. The town suffered a cyberattack in August 2019.
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With Russia poised to launch cyberattacks on US targets, many local governments find themselves without the staff or resources to even recognize when they’re under attack.
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Thanks to a shared wariness over China, Australia and India have grown much closer in recent years. Now, can a free-trade agreement be finalised, as promised, this year?
A man sweeps his apartment ruined by Russian shelling in Kyiv on March 21.
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Giving directly to Ukrainians via unused Airbnb rentals is a fast and efficient way to help. But there are some drawbacks.
Ukrainian soldiers are likely to suffer from trauma after the war.
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Many soldiers in the Ukraine war haven’t had actual military training, and are therefore at particular risk of developing PTSD.
Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, takes part in a service at Vladimirskaya Gorka in Kyiv in July 2012, part of anniversary celebrations of the christening of the country known as Kyivan Rus by its grand prince Vladimir I in 988AD.
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Vladamir Putin’s version of Russian history portrays his country as a victim – a historian examines the evidence.
A man carries a tray of freshly baked bread outside a bread factory on Dec. 15, 2016, in Cairo.
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Viewed from Cairo, the war in Ukraine poses an existential threat to something Egyptians can’t do without: abundant, cheap bread.
A Ukrainian service member takes a photograph of a damaged church after shelling in a residential district in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 10, 2022.
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Religion plays an important role in expansive views of Russian nationhood. But faith has played a role in Ukrainian nationalism, too.
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It is impossible to label nuclear power as sustainable without taking into account the entire life cycle of a nuclear reactor and the industry’s exposure to environmental and geopolitical risks.
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Western pharmaceutical companies can’t stop supplying essential medicines to Russia, but they can cease other business.
A Ukrainian refugee takes soup at the train station in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, March 17, 2022.
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Given Poland’s long stance against immigrants and refugees, it might not always be a warm welcome for Ukrainians.
International diplomacy: Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, addressing the Swedish parliament on March 24.
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The best of the past week’s coverage of the war in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in a meeting in Moscow on March 21, 2022.
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An elite palace coup is possible in Moscow to remove Vladimir Putin or persuade him to step down due to the war in Ukraine. But it would take time.
Gas flares burn above oil deposits in western Siberia, Russia.
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Game theory can tell us a lot about how this conflict might be resolved … or not.
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It’s hard to see how negotiations can succeed at this point.
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For Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the app has been a key point-of-contact for communication with his own people and the rest of the world.
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The conflict highlights the folly of nations exiting nuclear power while continuing to use coal, gas and oil.
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An expert in post-World War II displaced people looks at how history informs the current situation in Ukraine.
Refugees from Mariupol sit in a bus crossing the Ukraine-Russia border on March 15.
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Written more than 200 years ago, Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace sets out a plan for peace we can still aspire to achieve.
A Ukrainian soldier wanders down a railway past the bodies of dead Russian soldiers on the outskirts of Irpin, Ukraine, March 1, 2022.
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The Russian army has fared poorly and the Ukrainian military has fared well, defying experts’ predictions about the war in Ukraine. Can children’s fairy tales help explain the difference?
Smoke and fireballs rise during clashes between protesters and police in central Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan. 25, 2014. The “Heavenly Hundred” is what Ukrainians in Kyiv call those who died during months of anti-government protests in 2013-14.
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A need for enhanced presidential power, inherited from the early days of post-Communist transition, ruined any chances of compromise between Ukraine and Russia years ago.