Russia expected it would quickly seize control of Ukraine at the outset of the invasion, as did many Western observers. But Ukraine fought back with… Read More »Key battles in the Ukraine war: from Kyiv’s stand to the Kharkiv counter-attack
Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden are set to give rival speeches on Tuesday, promising two starkly differing takes on Russia’s war against Ukraine nearly one… Read More »Live: Putin, Biden to give duelling speeches one year into Ukraine war
Taiwan will boost military exchanges with the United States to curb “authoritarian expansionism”, President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday after meeting with visiting US lawmakers.
Israel’s parliament on Monday voted to push ahead with a contested overhaul of the country’s judicial system championed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s religious-nationalist government… Read More »Protests as Israel’s parliament pushes ahead with judicial ‘reform’
The “preventative detention” of a veteran journalist suggests not much has changed in Algeria.
The death toll from devastating rainfall in southeastern Brazil rose to 40 on Monday, official figures showed, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited the region… Read More »Death toll from flooding in Brazil rises, Lula visits disaster-hit region
The death toll from a jihadi attack on a Burkina Faso army unit in the north of the country last week has risen to 51,… Read More »Dozens of soldiers killed in jihadi attack on Burkina Faso army unit
A Nigerian senator, his wife, their daughter and an associate are on trial charged with exploiting the 21-year-old.
The rise of Peter Obi in the campaign for Nigeria’s presidential election on February 25 has shaken up the country’s politics, hitherto dominated by two… Read More »Can Nigeria’s Peter Obi ride his newfound momentum all the way to presidency?
A man known as “the Duesseldorf patient” has become the third person declared cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant that also treated… Read More »Third patient cured of HIV after receiving stem cell cancer treatment
