Armed group, mercenaries, mining, power struggles. It’s a familiar story in Africa, sadly.
‘Spy ship’: Russian oceanographic research vessel Admiral Vladimirsky during a military parade off the coast of St.Petersburg in 2020.
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A scholar of Russia’s legal code explains the case against the Wall Street Journal reporter accused of espionage.
A tank in the Donbas, an area of eastern Ukraine where armed conflict with Russian forces has been going on since 2014.
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The leaks suggest neither side has the capacity to force an outright victory this year.
The Day of Memory for Truth and Justice is held every year in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires commemorating the victims of the military dictatorship, March 24 1976 to December 10 1983.
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Hundreds of children were stolen from their parents during the dictatorship in Argentina, but over the years some have been reunited with their families.
The 2024 Summer Olympic Games are scheduled to take place from July 26 to Aug. 11 in France.
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The IOC has an opportunity to disavow the violence and illegality of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by extending the platform and status of refugee athletes to Russian and Belarusian athletes.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich being taken into custody on March 30, 2023.
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The deportation of children during war goes to the heart of important and far-reaching human rights conventions. But bringing perpetrators to justice will be a long and complex process.
Finnish military personnel raise their country’s flag at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
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Centuries before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the expulsion of individuals or even entire nations was used as a targeted instrument of war.
An unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night several years ago. Drone strikes are now a major feature of modern warfare, including in Ukraine and Syria.
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As Russia’s war in Ukraine illustrates, the use of lethal automated weapons, or LAWS, can always be justified. Their ability to desensitize their users from the act of killing, however, shouldn’t be.
Founding father: a statue to Genghis Khan in Tsonjin boldog, Mongolia.
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Friendly fire incidents have always been a feature of war, but the array of different countries’ equipment makes it very challenging for Ukrainian troops in the field.
Russian rhetoric about Ukraine echoes language used in the second world war by the Soviets seeking to stem independence movements. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin insisted on Ukraine getting a separate vote to the USSR at the United Nations, even though it wasn’t an independent state.
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