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Kazakhstan’s Careful Break From Moscow Is Now About Oil Money
ASTANA, July 25 — Kazakhstan’s call to freeze the Ukraine war has thrust it into the centre of…
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What the EU’s Sanctions on Russia Cover Since 2014
BRUSSELS, July 28 — The European Union’s sanctions architecture against Russia has ballooned to over 2,000 blacklisted names…
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Sanctions on Russia: A Squeezed Economy and Redrawn Trade Routes, Not a Collapse
BRUSSELS, July 27 — The tally of international sanctions on Russia has now passed 16,000 since 2022. On…
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Russia’s Discrediting-the-Army Law: Thousands of Cases and a Chilling Effect
MOSCOW, July 27 — Since 2022, Russia has systematically built a censorship apparatus around its war in Ukraine,…
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Zelenskyy Says Russian Satellites Imaged U.S. Bases and Gulf Oil Sites
MOSCOW, July 26 — The mechanics here are straightforward on paper, but the implications cut deep. Russia possesses…
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Iran’s Military Support for Russia: From Shahed Drones to Ballistic Missiles
TEHRAN, July 25 — Iran’s military support for Russia’s war in Ukraine has moved from a trickle of…
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Fire reported at Russia’s Engels Air Base overnight
SARATOV, July 25 — A fire of unknown origin broke out overnight at the Engels-2 air base in…
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Ukraine’s drone industry scales up from small aircraft to long-range strike drones
KYIV, July 10 — Ukraine’s drone program has undergone a transformation since the 2022 Russian invasion, evolving from…
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How It Works: Ukraine’s Long-Range Drone Strike Capability
KYIV, July 14 — Ukraine has quietly assembled a fleet of long-range attack drones that can reach targets…
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International election observation: divisions over quality of monitors
BRUSSELS, July 25 — The practice of international election observation dates back to the 1857 plebiscite in Moldavia…
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From the Navigation Acts to Opium: how trade disputes led to war
WASHINGTON, July 22 — The word “trade war” gets tossed around with alarming frequency these days, often as…
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How the IAEA Was Built in 1957 and Where Its Safeguards Fall Short
VIENNA, July 22 — The International Atomic Energy Agency traces its founding to a Cold War pivot: President…
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UN Report Finds Record 62 Million Tonnes of E-Waste in 2022, Under a Quarter Recycled
BRUSSELS, July 21 — The world’s fastest-growing waste stream is not just an environmental headache; it is increasingly…
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Ukraine’s General Staff chief Hnatov rose in 2025 and was dismissed in July 2026
KYIV, July 21 — The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remains, on paper, the central…
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Oleksandr Syrskyi named Ukraine’s new top commander
KYIV, July 21 — Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief since February 8, 2024, carries a career that invites scrutiny…
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Moscow Renames Street Outside US Embassy After Donetsk Separatist Region
MOSCOW, July 21 — The United States Embassy in Moscow is a compound whose history reads like a…
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Zelenskyy Replaces Syrskyi With Drapatyi as Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief After Protests
KYIV, July 21 — With Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi reportedly facing dismissal, the mechanics here are as much…
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Wallace says Israel declined to help Ukraine because it did not want to upset Russia
LONDON, July 20 — Two years after former UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told Parliament that Israel had…
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How Russia’s Iskander Missile Works and Why Its Accuracy Matters in Ukraine
MOSCOW, July 19 — The 9K720 Iskander, known to NATO as the SS-26 Stone, is a Russian mobile…
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Zelensky Says Ukraine Hit Three Russian Oil Tankers and Two Warships at Baltic and Black Sea Ports
KYIV, July 19 — President Volodymyr Zelensky announced today that Ukrainian forces struck three shadow fleet tankers in…
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How Russia’s Military Commissariats Run Conscription, Summonses and Draft Enforcement
MOSCOW, July 18 — The military commissariat, a bureaucratic relic of the Soviet era that still administers conscription…
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How US Secondary Sanctions Target the Banks Behind China-Russia Technology Trade
WASHINGTON, July 18 — Four and a half years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the architecture of…
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How the WTO Is Run and Why Its Appeals Body Came Under Strain
GENEVA, July 17 — The World Trade Organization operates today as it has for three decades: a framework…
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China Report Shows Analysts Hesitant on China’s 2020 Role
TEHRAN, July 16 — A little-known internal position at the heart of American intelligence assessment has become central…
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