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Lara MarloweThe Irish Times |
Ukraine applied to join the European Union four days after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. It is unlikely to become a full-fledged member...
The image of Marwan Barghouti smiling as he raises manacled hands overhead, making the V for Victory sign in a Tel Aviv courtroom, is one of the most...
Pavel Butorin and his daughters Miriam and Bibi, aged 12 and 15, were shaken to see the video of their wife and mother, the Russian-American...
A few days after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Sergei Medvedev, a historian of post-Soviet Russia, took the wrenching decision to leave...
Four-fifths of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip are refugees from the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948 or their descendants. The Abou Hassiras,...
No one, not even Vladimir Putin or Volodymyr Zelenskiy, can tell us how this ends. But in a week of symbolic anniversaries – 10 years after the...
The owner of a shop in north Dublin asked me a few days ago if I had seen Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin. She watched all two hours...
Joe Biden’s bid for re-election risks becoming collateral damage in Israel’s war on Gaza. Ever since the US president hugged prime minister...
Newspaper reports on the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier at the end of December 1996 showed an airport security photo of the victim pushing a...
The West was afflicted by a highly contagious, psychosomatic malady called Ukraine fatigue in the second half of 2023. Western commentators and...
Less than a year before the US presidential election and one month before the Republican primaries begin with the Iowa caucuses, there are dire...
In the photograph taken on the White House lawn, Yitzak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shake hands while Bill Clinton hovers over, beaming like a proud...
The British-Israeli historian and emeritus professor of International Relations at Oxford University Avi Shlaim has made studying the Arab-Israeli...
The horrific, heartbreaking events in Israel and the Gaza Strip this week have seen the Islamic Republic of Iran double down on its claim to be the...
The old adage which says that capitalists would sell their enemies the rope by which to hang them is variously attributed to Marx, Lenin and Stalin....
No one ever asks why I want to cover the war in Ukraine. They know it’s the most important story in the world to me. ‘Aren’t you afraid?’ is...