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‘They may be Russian some day’: was this the week that changed the war in Ukraine?
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has had some tough weeks in the past three years, but this past one may be up there with the worst of them.
an hour-long interview with the
Guardian
at his Kyiv offices
, the Ukrainian president was in a …Hoop dreams in peril as British basketball’s crisis reaches boiling point
From an outsider’s perspective, British basketball has never had it so good. It is firmly established as the second most popular participation team sport in the country with more than 1.5 million people playing at least twice a month. In December 2024 the sport received a combined £4,475,000 in two …
Rubio expected to push Trump plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza on trip to Israel
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, will discuss the Gaza ceasefire with Israel’s prime minister in Jerusalem, launching a Middle East tour a day after
the latest hostage-prisoner exchange
.On his first visit to the region as Washington’s top diplomat, Rubio is expected to push the …
Trump has left a void that the EU and Britain must fill together | William Keegan
In July 1817, Lord Amherst, the leader of a British delegation to China, stopped on his return journey at Saint Helena and met the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte.
Napoleon had seldom been out of the news, but Amherst himself was also in the news for having pointedly refused to kowtow when …
Prayer and prosecutions: the US ‘hate group’ waging war over Britain’s abortion clinic buffer zones
Rachael Clarke remembers life before buffer zones. Almost every day, the head of staff at the UK’s biggest abortion provider would get emails from staff worried about protesters outside clinics – and women crying in the waiting room.
Some of the protesters had huge placards with graphic images of foetuses. …
As the US walks away, Europe needs to step up for Ukraine. But does it have the will?
After three years of Russia’s attempt to occupy and annex Ukraine, the country continues to put up a fierce resistance.
Russia is suffering more than 1,500 casualties a day and only slowly taking ground. But the Ukrainian army is also being put under immense pressure.
As the opening moves are …
France hails a young heroine: Violette, conqueror of the waves
Ukraine war briefing: US and Russian officials to meet in Saudi Arabia without Ukrainians – reports
US and Russian officials are set to meet in Saudi Arabia next week to start talks aimed at ending Moscow’s nearly three-year war in Ukraine, Reuters and AFP reported citing US officials.
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, the national security adviser, Mike Waltz, and the Middle …
Muhsin Hendricks, world’s ‘first openly gay imam’, shot dead in South Africa
considered the world’s “first openly gay imam
”, has been shot dead near the southern city of Gqeberha, South African police have said.The imam, who ran a mosque intended as a safe haven for gay and other marginalised Muslims, was in a car with another …