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17 days ago

Ukraine war briefing: Soldiers captured by Russia in Mariupol among those released in prisoner swap

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

EU extends Russia sanctions but new package blocked by Slovakia. What we know on day 1,220

Ukraine and Russia exchanged a new group of captured soldiers on Thursday, the latest in a series of prisoner…

23 days ago

Ukraine war briefing: Putin’s claim that Ukraine is ‘ours’ is evidence of his disdain for peace efforts, says Kyiv

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Russian president says Russians and Ukrainians are one people – which Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly rejected – and warns Moscow could also seize Sumy city. What we know on day 1,214

Vladimir Puti…

25 days ago

The Guardian view on Israel, the US and Iran: you can’t bomb your way out of nuclear proliferation | Editorial

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The age of disarmament is over. But military action only increases the dangers instead of ending the threat

Eighty years after the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and 40 years after…

36 days ago

Tskaltubo, Stalin’s spa resort: the decay of a Soviet past in Georgia

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Tskaltubo enjoyed years of prosperity as a jewel of Soviet architecture. But after the collapse of the USSR in December 1991 the sanatoriums were abandoned, and in 1992 people fleeing the war in Abkh…

51 days ago

What links fool’s gold, fluffernutter, pilgrim and Reuben? The Saturday quiz

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From Helloween, Kreator and Rammstein to caldarium and tepidarium, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Elizabeth II opened Olympics in London and what other city?
2 Emerald is a variety of whi…

59 days ago

60 days ago

Two Prosecutors review – a petrifying portrait of Stalinist insurrection

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Cannes film festival
Drawn from a suppressed story by gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, Sergei Loznitsa’s haunting film unravels a terrifying parable of bureaucratic evil

An icy chill of fear and justifie…

65 days ago

Chinese troops march with Russian forces as Xi joins Putin for Victory Day parade

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Moscow stages largest Victory Day parade since start of Ukraine war with Putin using celebrations to justify invasion

Russian troops fighting in Ukraine marched together with Chinese forces on Moscow’…

67 days ago

‘The pain, the tears, it’s all there’: how Putin’s war has left Ukraine haunted by its past

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

For occupied parts of Ukraine, Russia’s war and the propaganda fuelling it has forced many to relive the horrors of previous wars

Mariia Sinhayevska was 11 when the Germans occupied her village, near …

68 days ago

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