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Jonathan EsteThe Conversation |
A round-up of the biggest global stories this week.
Eleven days that shook the world.
Sweden is clearly taking Vladimir Putin’s repeated threats to escalate its current war in Ukraine with deadly seriousness. Households received a...
In an ever-more uncertain world, one thing you can say with a degree of confidence is that, right now in global affairs, all roads lead to Donald...
It would have been interesting to have been a fly on the wall in Volodymyr Zelensky’s office on the morning of November 6 when it became clear that...
This is a rolling guide to articles and audio published by The Conversation in the aftermath of the US presidential election. The United States has...
This is a rolling guide to articles and audio published by The Conversation in the aftermath of the US presidential election. The United States has...
This is a rolling guide to articles and audio published by The Conversation in the immediate run-up to and aftermath of the election, with some...
This is a rolling guide to articles and audio published by The Conversation in the immediate run-up to and aftermath of the election, with some...
This is a rolling guide to articles and audio published by The Conversation in the immediate run-up to and aftermath of the election, with some...
This is a rolling guide to articles and audio published by The Conversation in the immediate run-up to and aftermath of the election, with some...
With the clock ticking down to November 5 and what just about everyone agrees is the most consequential US presidential election in living memory,...
There’s a degree of irony that countries attending the 2024 Brics summit this week voted to adopt the Kazan declaration (named for the capital city...
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In recent months, Vladimir Putin and his proxies have been foreshadowing a change in Russia’s nuclear doctrine. This is the set of rules that spells...
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It would be a brave – or foolhardy – analyst who presumes to predict the outcomes of the talks which continue in Doha. But the fate of Gaza and...
Social media was buzzing earlier this week with restaurant reviews from the Kursk region of Russia, written by Ukrainian troops. They were clearly...
Iran is going to launch a retaliatory strike against Israel for the dual assassinations of Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, on July 31 and Hezbollah’s...
News reports this week quoted anonymous sources from the US and Ukraine that the first six F-16 jets had been supplied by the Netherlands to the...
As the violence continued to rage in Gaza and on the West Bank – and Israeli protesters made their anger at their government felt on the streets of...
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, travelled to Washington this week for a series of high-level meetings. At the invitation of the...
Ukraine will no longer exist by 2034, or so says former Russian president and Kremlin attack dog, Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev didn’t say so in as many...
Ukraine’s troops remain frustrated at delays in getting fresh supplies of arms and ammunition, according to reports from the frontline. It’s been...
Fighting continues in central and southern Gaza, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to encounter resistance from units of Hamas fighters,...
Hotfoot from signing a security pact with North Korea on Wednesday, Vladimir Putin has popped up in Vietnam, another of the few remaining countries...
First, the most important news. At last count, the death toll, as reported by Gaza’s ministry of health, stands at 37,232 people, including more...
The latest reports emerging from the frontlines in Ukraine are that the artillery ammunition the defending troops have been waiting for all these...
If Israel’s ongoing assault on Rafah on the Gaza Strip is anything to go on, the concept of “red lines”, so beloved of US presidents as a...
Vladimir Putin has been looking pretty chipper of late. Two weeks ago saw him wearing his trademark vulpine smile as he presided over the Victory Day...
Vladimir Putin, newly elected as Russian president for a fifth term (and being hailed, apparently, by some ultra-nationalist supporters as...
Over the past few days we seem to have been hearing more about the protests roiling the campuses of some of the most prestigious universities in the...
Across the broad sweep of history, it’s usually overly simplistic to talk about a single event as a “turning point”. This is especially the case...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have reportedly been conducting operations in the Beit Hanoun area of the northern Gaza Strip conducting raids on...
The air war in Ukraine has intensified considerably over the past few months, with a dramatic increase in the number of sorties being flown by...
The missiles that struck the World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid convoy this week, killing seven aid workers, including three Britons, were likely to have...
Vladimir Putin says has no intention of attacking any Nato members. Visiting an airbase in Torzhok, on the road between Moscow and St Petersburg, the...
As the casualty count on the Gaza Strip approaches 32,000 people, in itself a terrible and distressing statistic, another number also stood out this...
Russian voters have been heading to the polls this week. But it would be misleading to say they were voting to choose a president. That’s already...
Some are calling it the “flour massacre”. At dawn on the morning of February 29, as a convoy of about 30 trucks carrying aid moved along the coast...
Another day, another bloodcurdling threat from Vladimir Putin. The Russian president used his annual televised address to warn the west that he was...
Joe Biden’s most senior Middle East adviser, Brett McGurk, has arrived in Israel to push for a deal to halt the war in Gaza and secure the release...
It’s appropriate, a fortnight out from the second anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion, to look back and see what the mood was this time...
The Israeli military is poised to enter what its defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has referred to as the “last centre of gravity that remains in...
The Russian winter offensive flagged here a fortnight ago appears to be under way, according to the Institute for the Study of War, which has noted...
No sooner were the international media reporting this week that Israel had proposed a pause of up to two months in its assault on Gaza to allow for a...
As you’d expect, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has been working the room at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. After a...
As the death toll from Israel’s assault on Gaza climbed past 23,000 – including nearly 10,000 children – according to the latest figures from...
Ukraine is alive. Ukraine lives. Ukraine fights. Ukraine advances, Ukraine overcomes the path. Ukraine gains. Ukraine works. Ukraine exists. In his...