Violence has caused thousands to flee the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh amid anger over perceived lack of action from Washington or the international community.
Ethnic Armenians flee their enclave in Nagorno-Karabakh along the Lachin corridor.
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Ukraine must keep its cause in the hearts and minds of the public and its allies in the West. Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visits to Ottawa, Washington and the United Nations were in pursuit of that goal.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Joe Biden walk to the Oval Office on Sept. 21, 2023.
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Because reform of the current UN Charter is off the table, the only avenue left is to dissolve the charter and draw up a new treaty that limits or abolishes the power of the veto.
War in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region of the South Caucasus has been going on for more than three decades.
EPA-EFE/Sargsyan/OC media handout
Azerbaijan and Armenia have been contesting this region of the South Caucasus since before the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Karim Khan, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, speaks at a Parliament Hill news conference during his first official visit to Canada in May 2023.
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The war crimes probe signals a new path for Canada that prioritizes international law and corrects past policy failures, while validating the experiences of Ukrainians.
Shot while reporting from Ukraine: Swiss photojournalist Guillaume Briquet.
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Journalists and media workers are being deliberately targeted by Russian forces in Ukraine.
Russian president Vladimir Putin, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, Russia, on September 13, 2023.
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A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
A handout photograph shows Sevastopol governor Mikhail Razvozhaev speaking on a mobile phone from the scene of the missile attack.
EPA-EFE/Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev handout
Two successful operations in and around Crimea demonstrate that, while Ukraine’s ground counteroffensive is moving slowly, Kyiv is expanding the scope of its ambition.
Polish defences near Milosna, west of Warsaw, August 1920.
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South-East Asia is anxious about the Ukraine war’s impact on regional economies. For New Zealand, that presents more pressing geopolitical priorities than confronting China.
Election under occupation: a woman casts her vote in Russian occupied Donetsk, in the east of Ukraine.
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