Foreign Policy

New evidence suggests American-Palestinian Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in a targeted attack by Israeli forces.  Eyewitness accounts, videos analysis by the Bellingcat research group support claims that the renowned reporter was […]

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A veteran Russian diplomat is speaking out against his country’s war in Ukraine.  Boris Bondarev resigned his position in Geneva in protest of the “bloody, witless” war “unleashed by Putin against Ukraine.”  It marks a […]

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In Ukraine’s first war crimes trial since Russia invaded the country, a 21-year-old Russian soldier was sentenced to life in prison today for killing an unarmed civilian.  Today’s verdict caps days of proceedings in a […]

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Russian President Vladimir Putin had to “keep explaining things” to Donald Trump while he was U.S. President.  Former White House aide Fiona Hill told the Chicago Council on Global Affairs that Trump had to have […]

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Israel is refusing to launch a criminal investigation into the killing of the US-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, The Guardian reports. Palestinian officials and witnesses said Israeli soldiers shot the renowned international journalist. When she […]

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The Taliban in Afghanistan has ordered all female TV presenters to cover their faces on air, The Guardian reports. The latest order came in a statement from the Taliban’s information and culture ministry as well […]

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The Untied States has accused Russia of holding global food supplies hostage amid growing fears of famine in developing countries, The Guardian reports. Former Russian President and now senior security official Dmitry Medvedev warned that […]

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A Russian tank commander has pleaded guilty to shooting dead a 62-year-old civilian man on his bicycle on a village road.  It is Ukraine’s first trial for war crimes committed by Russia during its invasion.  […]

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One of the Catholic Church’s most senior members was arrested in Hong Kong for allegedly breaking China’s national security law, sending shockwaves across Hong Kong, especially the Catholic community. Zen’s supporters are fearful that a […]

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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukraine can win this war, NBC News reports. The remarks follow an informal meeting of the NATO group and come after both Finland and Sweden announced they would apply […]

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), accompanied by a US delegation made up of three other Republican senators visited Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, and became the latest group of senior American politicians to […]

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said today that it was not possible for NATO-member Turkey to support plans by Finland and Sweden to join the pact, Reuters reports. Erdogan claimed the Nordic countries were “home […]

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered a strict lockdown after the first official public admission of Covid infections was announced, The NY Times reports. The size of the Covid outbreak was not immediately known, […]

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Finland is expected to announce its NATO bid today, with Sweden likely to follow soon after, The NY Times reports. Nato allies expect Finland and Sweden to be granted membership quickly into the alliance, paving […]

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Sri Lankan troops conducted a dramatic operation before dawn today to rescue Mahinda Rajapaksa, who resigned as the country’s prime minister yesterday.  For weeks protests have erupted over an unprecedented economic crisis. Yesterday saw the […]

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The son of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos won the country’s presidential election.  In 1986, a revolution topped his late father’s two-decade dictatorship. Ferdinand Marcos Junior, known as BongBong, clinched a victory, marking a […]

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The British government will take “whatever measures are necessary” in order to reform the Northern Ireland Brexit protocol, according to the country’s Justice Secretary.  The comments come amid new fears that the newly elected Stormont […]

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