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.
Who is the ‘big brother’ now?
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Different translations show the nuances in the relationship between China and Russia over nearly a century.
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.
‘Permacrisis’ is Collins Dictionary’s 2022 word of the year, but polycrisis is a more accurate term to describe the world’s ongoing crises and how they’re interacting with one another.
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What’s a polycrisis? We’re in one, and greed and power are undoubtedly worsening it, but our knowledge remains poor. Experts know a lot about individual risks and crises, but not how they interact.
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.
Heartbreak on both sides: a Russian family mourns the loss of a son and a brother in Crimea, November 2022.
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The negotiations that finally brought peace to Northern Ireland could provide some useful pointers as to how to end the war in Ukraine.
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Russia appears to be under increasing pressure on all fronts.
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Ukraine appears to be mounting an operation to retake the tiny headland.
In charge: his war may be increasingly unpopular, but Vladimir Putin still enjoys complete power in Russia.
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Public approval of the war has declined significantly, but the president himself appears safe, for the time being.
The city of Darayya has been destroyed during the Syrian war.
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Renewed military activity in Syria is also stoking a round of alliance building for the Ukraine war.
‘March of gratitude’: Ukrainians in Poland demonstrate their thanks.
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Ukrainians were initially welcomed with open arms in Poland, but there are signs the relationship might be becoming a little strained.
A man walks amid buildings damaged by Russian missiles in Ukraine on Nov. 28, 2022.
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Given their numbers advantage, Russian troops were expected to quickly capture Ukraine. That didn’t happen, and with winter approaching, more Russian military defeats are expected.
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.
Germany passed an emergency legislation in July to reopen coal-powered plants in the face of gas shortages.
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Canada and its allies must advocate for international peaceful diplomacy to stop the threat of nuclear war and prevent further climate devastation.
Beautiful but deadly: winter inUkraine.
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Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
Russia’s bombardment of Kyiv has not spared its hospitals.
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It’s a purely symbolic gesture with no real-world consequences.
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Ukraine seemed to have recovered well from COVID and its economy was forecast to grow strongly. But then Russia invaded.
Polish police officers search for missile wreckage in a farmer’s field near where a missile struck, killing two people in the village of Przewodów near the border with Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022.
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The recent military mishap in Poland shows such incidents are bound to happen near war zones. We should be ready for them.
Kherson retaken: the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, takes a salute from troops.
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What happens now could dictate the course of the rest of the war.