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Lara Marlowe

Lara Marlowe

The Irish Times

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Europe is a beacon for Ukraine, but Ukraine is a necessity for Europe

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...

11.05.2024 20

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This man is the best hope for peace in the Middle East. First Israel has to release him from prison

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...

19.04.2024 40

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She went home to care for her mother and ended up in a Russian prison cell

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...

08.04.2024 10

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‘You cannot hide anywhere’: A historian in exile on the brutality of Russian society

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...

30.03.2024 10

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‘Gaza is my being, my existence, my identity. The world cannot fail us now’

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,...

09.03.2024 40

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Seven key questions that will determine what happens next in Ukraine

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...

24.02.2024 10

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Trump may not be a paid agent of Putin but he is certainly an asset to him

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...

17.02.2024 40

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Biden may be the only person in the world with the power to impose a ceasefire in Gaza

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...

27.01.2024 20

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Time and again, I saw the hopes of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s family crushed

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...

23.01.2024 10

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A highly contagious, psychosomatic malady called Ukraine fatigue is threatening the West

The West was afflicted by a highly contagious, psychosomatic malady called Ukraine fatigue in the second half of 2023. Western commentators and...

06.01.2024 10

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Americans are sleepwalking into a dictatorship. Why aren’t they more afraid?

Less than a year before the US presidential election and one month before the Republican primaries begin with the Iowa caucuses, there are dire...

16.12.2023 10

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Gross diplomatic negligence led to war between Israel and Hamas

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...

28.11.2023 10

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‘Gaza was an open-air prison. Now it is an open-air graveyard’

The British-Israeli historian and emeritus professor of International Relations at Oxford University Avi Shlaim has made studying the Arab-Israeli...

04.11.2023 50

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Hamas-Israel war brings direct confrontation between Iran and Israel closer

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...

14.10.2023 10

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Were the Nord Stream pipelines among the biggest strategic errors of the 21st century?

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....

23.09.2023 10

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Lara Marlowe on being a war correspondent in Ukraine: ‘Experience is the antidote to fear’

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...

14.09.2023 10

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