Does New Zealand have more to lose than gain by joining ‘pillar two’ of the AUKUS security pact? The next government will have to decide, with serious implications for the country’s foreign policy.
China’s President Xi Jinping at the 2018 Business Forum meeting during the 10th BRICS summit in South Africa.
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An analysis of tweets posted by the Ukrainian national government and the Kyiv city government in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 shows a national resilience.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, hands out medals to servicemen at a hospital in the Zaporizhzhia region, August 2023.
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A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Kurds and their sujpports demonstrate in Lausanne to protest the 100th anniversary of a treaty which denied them a homeland.
EPA-EFE/Jean-Christophe Bott
While analysts fret over what Iran and Russia are up to in Syria, Kurdish aspirations continue to be overlooked.
Slow but steady: Volodymyr Zelensky receives a briefing on the counter-offensive from officers in Zaporizhzhia.
The Presidential Office of Ukraine via/dpa/Alamy Live News
Foreign policy experts are divided on whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes it more or less likely that China will launch a similar attack on Taiwan. Here are the arguments on both sides.
The Security Intelligence Service needs public support and trust to do its work well. Adding a degree of transparency to it’s annual threat assessment should help.
It is not mere expansion, but the character of the expansion which will guide the five Brics countries on whether they admit new members.
Russian president Vladimir Putin visits the Kerch bridge linking Russian-occupied Crimea with the Russian mainland, after an attack damaged it.
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About 100,000 Crimean Tatars died as part of a massive deportation of these people by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin towards the end of the second world war.
On the attack: a Ukrainian tank crew on the front line near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine.
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Ethnic politics, the presence of foreign troops and the weaknesses of past responses to coups encouraged Niger’s recent military takeover.
Visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima view a large-scale panoramic photograph of the destruction following the 1945 bombing.
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The United States and Russia, the two biggest nuclear powers, have no imminent plans for talks on a nuclear deal. That should change, writes a former US diplomat.