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Ukraine recap: Russia intensifies its air war as Kyiv begs for western military aid

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...

11.04.2024 4

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Gaza update: pressure mounts on Israel’s allies to stop supplying the weapons to prevent genocide

The missiles that struck the World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid convoy this week, killing seven aid workers, including three Britons, were likely to have...

04.04.2024 5

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Ukraine recap: Russia won’t attack Nato countries says Putin, believe it or not

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...

29.03.2024 4

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Gaza update: the prospect of mass famine is beginning to change minds in Washington

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...

21.03.2024 5

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Ukraine recap: Russian election special – and the winner will be … Vladimir Putin

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...

14.03.2024 5

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Gaza update: starvation and sexual violence are being used as weapons of war

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...

07.03.2024 4

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Ukraine recap: fresh nuclear threats from Putin as France talks of western boots on the ground

Another day, another bloodcurdling threat from Vladimir Putin. The Russian president used his annual televised address to warn the west that he was...

29.02.2024 4

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Gaza update: Biden ups the pressure on Israel as deadline for Rafah assault approaches

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...

22.02.2024 6

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Ukraine recap: prospect of renewed US funding a boost for beleaguered Zelensky

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...

15.02.2024 5

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Gaza update: Netanyahu knocks back Hamas peace plan while the prospect of mass famine looms ever larger

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...

08.02.2024 3

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Ukraine recap: Zelensky battles corruption and a major row with his commander-in -chief

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...

01.02.2024 4

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Gaza update: Netanyahu calls for ‘total victory’ as International Court of Justice ponders genocide accusations against Israel

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...

25.01.2024 3

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Ukraine recap: possibility of imminent Russian offensive focuses minds on Kyiv’s weapons shortages

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...

18.01.2024 3

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Gaza update: no end to the killing in sight as extremists on both sides make a peace deal hard to imagine

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...

11.01.2024 4

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Ukraine recap: Zelensky’s defiant new year speech foreshadows tough 2024 as government tightens conscription laws

Ukraine is alive. Ukraine lives. Ukraine fights. Ukraine advances, Ukraine overcomes the path. Ukraine gains. Ukraine works. Ukraine exists. In his...

04.01.2024 3

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Ukraine recap: as cracks appear in western support, 2024 looks set to be a desperate fight for survival

While it may seem glib to repeat the notion of a new cold war, winter 2023-2024 has brought with it the sense that there is now an ever-more uncertain...

21.12.2023 2

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Gaza update: deadlock in the UN security council means no relief for suffering Palestinian civilians

Day by day, as Israel continues its assault on Gaza, the death toll mounts. According to the Gaza health ministry more than 18,500 people have now...

14.12.2023 4

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Gaza Update: ceasefire holds for now, but array of armed Hamas allies could threaten this fragile truce

So far, the ceasefire between the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas, originally set at four days and since extended twice as more hostages and prisoners...

30.11.2023 3

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Gaza Update: as the world debates ‘ceasefires’ and ‘pauses’, Israel is silent on the ‘day after’

I spent several hours on Wednesday night wrestling over how we could best cover the raid by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Gaza’s al-Shifa...

16.11.2023 7

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Gaza Update: as the world debates ‘ceasefires’ and ‘pauses’, Israel silent on the ‘day after’

I spent several hours on Wednesday night wrestling over how we could best cover the raid by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Gaza’s al-Shifa...

16.11.2023 6

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Ukraine recap: with winter closing in Zelensky resists calls to negotiate – but Gaza war adds to pressure

For the past month, the world’s attention has reeled at the violence in Israel and Gaza. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine has ground on, day by day,...

09.11.2023 2

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Gaza Update: as Israel begins its ground offensive, the conflict’s reverberations are being felt far beyond the Strip

The ground assault on Gaza is now well underway and, as they advance into the Strip’s urban areas, the Israel Defence Forces are coming up against...

03.11.2023 3

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Ukraine recap: future of US support for Kyiv in question as Israel conflict reshapes Washington’s priorities

There was some worrying news for Volodymyr Zelensky this week when the US House of Representatives finally elected a new speaker. Mike Johnson, a...

26.10.2023 2

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Ukraine recap: Ukraine and allies maintain optimism despite slow progress on the battlefield

At a press conference after talks with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, this afternoon, Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg sounded...

28.09.2023 3

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Ukraine recap: Kim Jong-un visits Putin for arms-for -tech talks while Kyiv urges west for longer-range missiles to aid counteroffensive

Vladimir Putin spent a few pleasant hours this week with one of his friends and allies – an increasingly exclusive club these days. Putin met up...

14.09.2023 7

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