Putin’s Trump dilemma
Will the Russian leader accept the US-backed ceasefire deal with Ukraine?
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Europe alone cannot rescue President Zelensky
Keir Starmer is leading the continent in the right direction. But peace in Ukraine cannot be guaranteed without the US.
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The precarity of the Gaza ceasefire deal
Even if the next phase of the agreement commences, Israel will face tough choices.
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Despite three years of war, Ukrainians do not despair
Also this week: Pills in Poland and a new way of measuring political absurdity.
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Sharone Lifschitz: “On 7 October, my father saw his life’s work going up in flames”
The film-maker on her father Oded Lifschitz and the plight of the 7 October hostages.
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Europe’s emergency is Keir Starmer’s salvation
If peacekeeping Ukraine requires British re-armament, it could also break through the political consensus binding Labour.
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Letter from Gaza: the fighting is over, but the mourning is just beginning
This war has reached into every home, leaving no family untouched by its flames, no heart unscarred by its agonies.
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Can the West guarantee Ukraine’s security?
Amid talk of “peacekeepers” and security alliances, it’s not yet clear what Europe can do to deter Russia.
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Cruel Britannia
The brutal 500-year history of English violence in Europe.
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Burying the lost children of Gaza
We survivors of this war are searching for our broken families. But, even so, we must count ourselves as victors.
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The peace paradox
The political calculations that allowed the Gaza ceasefire could yet be its undoing.
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The year ahead: Are we on the verge of a new Middle East?
A democratic Syria and rising Turkey would ask different questions of Israel.
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The year ahead: Russia is on course to win the war in Ukraine
How did we get here?
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How will the Ukraine war end?
“Peace with honour” is unlikely to be an option for President Zelensky.
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The war on Lebanon’s heritage
Israeli air strikes have damaged and destroyed historical sites and antiquities across the country.
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The real danger of sending North Korean troops to Ukraine
The threat of Russia’s war is expanding beyond Europe.
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Silent voices in the once-free city of Odesa
On a journey through Ukraine, the Labour peer identifies the ancient tracks linking pogroms against Jews in eastern Europe to…
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In Gaza, every second is a fight to stay alive
The world has turned away even as the destruction and killing go on.
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A blood-dimmed tide washes over the Middle East
Israel has won several remarkable military victories – with a catastrophic human cost.
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Is the West poised to enter the war in Ukraine?
The West may soon be forced to stop thinking of its participation in Ukraine as a “special logistical operation”.
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