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The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Kigali, Rwanda will be complicated by the UK’s plan to send refugees to Rwanda.
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Newer apps like Thursday prioritise meeting in person over possibly endless online chat.
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Russia’s long-term plan for Ukraine is to draw it away from the west.
Destroyed: a bridge in the town of Chernihiv near Kyiv in the north of Ukraine.
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Russia’s military machine is finding the terrain in the Donbas region extremely challenging.
Low lying islands in the Pacific are threatened by climate change.
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A battle for influence between the US and China in the region, is giving Pacific island states more influence.
The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania meeting with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Putin, in Kyiv on June 16.
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A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
The mass shooting in Buffalo is the latest to involve Norse symbolism in the attacker’s manifesto.
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Norse symbols and references to Valhalla repeatedly show up the manifestos of far right terrorists. An expert explains why.
Give me the child: Iranian children on their first day at kindergarten.
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Iranian children are being encouraged to sing and dance to a new ‘pop’ song, which reflects the conservative values of the country’s religious hardliners.
Peace train: Italian prime minister Mario Draghi, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz en route to Kyiv.
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Five ideas based on solutions in other countries that could help bring the various players to the table.
Neil Kinnock shows off his bowling skills on the campaign trail in 1987.
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Kinnock lost two elections as Labour leader. Starmer could learn a lot from his successes and failures.
Priti Patel and Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta agreed the migration partnership in April 2022.
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The court blocked the UK from deporting asylum-seekers to Rwanda until after cases in the UK are decided.
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Survey shows that Ukrainians’ attitudes about a peace settlement and any territorial concessions to the Russians differs dependng on their experience of war.
Poland has accepted more than one million Ukrainian refugees.
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All of Poland’s political parties are strong supporters of Ukraine, despite other differences.
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The UK government is proposing to unilaterally change the Northern Ireland protocol. Here’s a timeline of this controversial legal mechanism.
Residents have long bemoaned measures taken to make buildings look better, but not safer.
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Inadequate building regulations led to combustible products being used on external walls.
Quilts are a repository of memory, personal and collective.
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What started out as an instinctive and private response to trauma has become a collective process of grieving and commemoration.
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The US president was hoping that the gathering of Latin American leaders would present a united front of migrants. But several key players were absent.
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The government’s plan to override the Northern Ireland protocol breaches the UK’s legal obligations.
My house, my rules?
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The Conservatives have always been happy to rewrite their own rules when it suits them.
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Navigating the ‘he said/she said’ conundrum in intimate partner abuse can be difficult.
Spontaneous memorials started appearing in the vicinity of the tower in the days and weeks after the fire.
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Designing a memorial that helps the community grieve and heal is no easy task.
Dedicated and under-resourced …
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Nursing has long been seen as a vocation, not a skill. This impacts nursing staff and patients both.
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Russia’s military planners were not expecting such fierce Ukrainian resistance, especially in regions it has occupied since 2014.
Legal cannabis use rose in Europe during the pandemic.
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Holiday destinations are creating cannabis-related events and activities to capture a new travel trend.
Ukrainian soldiers meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Treatment of POWs by Ukraine and Russia is breaking international rules.