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Peace on earth doesn’t look very likely any time soon

A round-up of the biggest global stories this week.

19.12.2024 3

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What Assad’s fall means for the Middle East – and Russia

Eleven days that shook the world.

12.12.2024 3

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Europe readies for war as Russian rhetoric escalates

Sweden is clearly taking Vladimir Putin’s repeated threats to escalate its current war in Ukraine with deadly seriousness. Households received a...

06.12.2024 7

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World Update: Donald Trump is already reshaping the prospects of Ukraine and Palestinians

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...

21.11.2024 10

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World Update: where Trump’s election leaves Ukraine

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...

15.11.2024 6

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Donald Trump wins US election – what the experts say

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...

06.11.2024 6

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Jonathan Este

Donald Trump wins US election – what the expert says

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...

06.11.2024 5

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US election: Trump declares victory – ‘There’s never been anything like this’

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...

06.11.2024 20

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US election: Trump declares victory

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...

06.11.2024 20

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US election results: Trump leads electoral college votes as Republicans regain Senate

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...

06.11.2024 20

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US election results: Trump takes first swing state of North Carolina

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...

06.11.2024 20

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World Update: how Israel’s relations with the UN hit rock bottom

With the clock ticking down to November 5 and what just about everyone agrees is the most consequential US presidential election in living memory,...

31.10.2024 4

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World update: Ukraine faces prospect of defeat – but the west must ensure a just peace

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...

25.10.2024 3

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World Update: how the Middle East conflict could escalate

This article was first published in our World Update newsletter. To receive a weekly briefing on global affairs and international relations direct to...

17.10.2024 4

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World Update: Middle East conflict escalating rapidly – there’s no telling where it will end

This article was first published in our World Update email newsletter. To receive this in-depth weekly briefing on the most important global events...

03.10.2024 6

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Ukraine recap: Putin’s nuclear sabre-rattling becomes more ominous

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...

26.09.2024 7

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Gaza update: what the Lebanon pager attacks could mean for the Middle East conflict

This article was first published in our Gaza Update newsletter. Click here to receive our fortnightly updates on the conflict direct to your inbox. ...

19.09.2024 7

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Gaza update: US politics and the fate of Palestinians increasingly bound up together

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...

22.08.2024 9

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Ukraine recap: Kursk offensive turns the fortunes of war on their head – for now at least

Social media was buzzing earlier this week with restaurant reviews from the Kursk region of Russia, written by Ukrainian troops. They were clearly...

16.08.2024 10

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Gaza update: Hamas appoints new leader as Middle East braces for more violence

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...

08.08.2024 8

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Ukraine recap: nearly one-third of the people would now give up land for peace as arrival of first F-16s offer fresh hope

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...

01.08.2024 5

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Gaza update: ‘vintage’ Netanyahu in Washington, Harris stays away

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...

25.07.2024 7

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Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the US Congress and receives a very mixed reception: expert Q&A

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, travelled to Washington this week for a series of high-level meetings. At the invitation of the...

25.07.2024 5

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Ukraine recap: the bleak prospect of a Trump-Vance White House

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...

18.07.2024 4

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Ukraine recap: Zelensky says ‘no’ to Hungary’s ceasefire proposal and ‘hurry up’ to western aid

Ukraine’s troops remain frustrated at delays in getting fresh supplies of arms and ammunition, according to reports from the frontline. It’s been...

04.07.2024 8

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Gaza update: Hamas can’t be destroyed says IDF as Netanyahu eyes war with Hezbollah

Fighting continues in central and southern Gaza, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to encounter resistance from units of Hamas fighters,...

27.06.2024 6

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Ukraine recap: Putin love-in with Kim Jong-un contrasts with western disarray over peace plan

Hotfoot from signing a security pact with North Korea on Wednesday, Vladimir Putin has popped up in Vietnam, another of the few remaining countries...

20.06.2024 10

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Gaza update: political wrangling is making a peace deal even harder

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...

13.06.2024 5

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Ukraine recap: western aid now boosting defensive morale as battle for Kharkiv continues

The latest reports emerging from the frontlines in Ukraine are that the artillery ammunition the defending troops have been waiting for all these...

06.06.2024 5

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Gaza update: as assault on Rafah continues international sentiment shifts away from supporting Israel

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...

30.05.2024 20

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Ukraine recap: Putin on top as Kyiv scrambles to play catch-up on the battlefield

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...

23.05.2024 70

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Ukraine recap: Putin celebrates Victory Day with nuclear threats to UK and France

Vladimir Putin, newly elected as Russian president for a fifth term (and being hailed, apparently, by some ultra-nationalist supporters as...

09.05.2024 30

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Gaza update: US students protest while leaders talk and Palestinians continue to die

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...

02.05.2024 30

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Ukraine recap: US$60 billion aid package brings fresh hope to desperate Kyiv

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...

25.04.2024 10

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Gaza update: the questionable precision and ethics of Israel’s AI warfare machine

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have reportedly been conducting operations in the Beit Hanoun area of the northern Gaza Strip conducting raids on...

18.04.2024 7

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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 10

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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 20

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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 6

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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 10

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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 6

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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 6

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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 40

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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 40

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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 8

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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 20

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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 10

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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 6

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