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Why Trump hates USAID so much

Why Trump hates USAID so much
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Is Europe about to switch Nord Stream back on?

Is Europe about to switch Nord Stream back on?
30.01.2025 10

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Owen Matthews

A requiem for UK equity capital markets

London’s storied status as a global financial powerhouse is slipping away, and with every IPO that doesn’t materialise or company that decamps to...

15.12.2024 4

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The deepening unpopularity of Zelensky

Perhaps all political careers must end, inevitably, in failure. But few politicians have had careers as meteoric, as surprising, as consequential...

05.12.2024 10

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Biden’s missiles will do Ukraine no favours

With just over 60 days left in office, Joe Biden’s White House has significantly escalated the Ukraine war it had tried so hard to contain by...

21.11.2024 3

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Critical condition / The appalling truth about London’s ambulance service

‘An old lady’s fallen down – quick! She’s bleeding. Come help.’ An elderly woman lay on the entrance steps of the block of mansion flats,...

14.11.2024 2

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Meet the western conservatives moving to Russia

Tofurious Maximus Crane was sitting in a barber’s chair in Moscow when he received the greatest news of his life. It was 19 August, the day...

31.10.2024 7

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Books / Few rulers can have rejoiced in a less appropriate sobriquet than Augustus the Strong

Augustus the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, is often labelled one of the worst monarchs in European history. His reign...

04.10.2024 1

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Blurred lines / What does ‘victory’ for Ukraine look like?

This week in New York Volodymyr Zelensky will present Joe Biden with a ‘Victory Plan’ for Ukraine. But how to define what ‘victory’ actually...

26.09.2024 2

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What China wants from Russia

On the face of it, the ‘no limits’ partnership between Russia and China declared weeks before Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022...

29.08.2024 2

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Owen Matthews

The arrest of Pavel Durov raises awkward questions

Pavel Durov, Russian-born founder of the Telegram messaging and social media app, has been arrested in France for failing to comply with official...

25.08.2024 3

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Owen Matthews

Why is Lukashenko pushing for an end to the Ukraine war?

Could Belarus’s Aleksandr Lukashenko be the key to ending the Ukraine conflict? In a surprising intervention over the weekend, the long-time...

19.08.2024 2

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Do we now have proof Ukraine blew up the Nord Stream pipelines?

When three of the four Nord Stream gas pipelines connecting Russia to Germany were destroyed by unknown saboteurs in September 2022, Ukrainian...

16.08.2024 2

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Zelensky’s new offensive could push Putin to the brink

A Russian friend speaking from Kursk tells me the latest war joke. Vladimir Putin summons Stalin’s ghost. ‘Comrade Stalin!’ asks Putin....

15.08.2024 10

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Could the Russia prisoner swap help bring peace to Ukraine?

I can well understand that joy and relief experienced by the supporters and families of the hostages released yesterday by Vladimir Putin. For I...

02.08.2024 9

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