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As new arms flow to Ukraine, Putin is running out of time to achieve goals

Russian forces advanced only marginally since taking the strategic eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka in February at the cost of huge casualties in months...

‘You can’t fight your way to peace’: from a 20-year-old Israeli to a 99-year-old Briton, eight conscientious objectors on why they refused to serve...

‘The apartheid society I lived in was offensive to the core of my being’Peter Hathorn, 63, Cape Town, South AfricaThe society I grew up...

Russia thwarted over Kharkiv after cross-border Himars strikes

“It’s hard for Russians to use the S-300 missiles right now. That...

Vladimir Putin reeling after crack Russian unit is ‘totally destroyed’

A crack Russian unit of fighters was almost totally destroyed during intense fighting near Kharkiv, rendering it inoperable, according to reports from the frontline.The...

D-Day: How metal tape in Wiltshire museum disrupted German radar

BBCBoscombe Down Aviation Collection has a number of aircraft used during World War Two, including an Auster observation aircraft and the front of a...

Danish PM Mette Frederiksen left ‘shocked’ after being assaulted by man

Police arrest one man and open investigation into incident in Kultorvet square that left prime minister ‘shocked’.Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was “hit” by...

Trial date set for woman ‘who zipped boyfriend in suitcase and left him to die’

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Why the Dutch are euthanising physically healthy young adults – and could the UK be next?

Those who support assisted dying for psychiatric conditions argue that mental illness...

‘We’re in 1938 now’: Putin’s war in Ukraine and lessons from history

When big history is self-evidently being written, and leaders face momentous choices, the urge to find inspiration in instructive historical parallels is overwhelming and...

From parched earth to landslides: crisis in the prosecco hills of Italy

Paola Ferraro marches through the neat grids of vines that chequer the slopes of Monfumo and rattles off the number of ways violent weather...

Putin ‘invokes Cuban Missile Crisis’ as he moves ‘nuclear-capable’ ships to Havana

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Bill Anders: Nasa ‘Earthrise’ astronaut dies at 90 in plane crash

Getty ImagesApollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped one of the most famous photographs taken in outer space, has died at the age of...

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