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Ukraine’s strategic goal in 2024 is to make Russia’s war felt in Moscow
Ukraine is doubling down on remote warfare to smash Putin’s power base and ability to fight.
Could AI deepen inequalities in the world?
AI is hailed as cutting-edge, but it risks replicating biases and disparities already in place in our world today.
Deadly fire rips through Bangladesh shopping centre
At least 45 people were killed and dozens injured after a fire raged through a six-storey building in Dhaka.
Who is Manuel Rocha, the US diplomat who accepted he spied for Cuba?
Rocha admitted to a four-decade betrayal of the US foreign service as a Cuban mole.
Palestinian boy rescued after 9 days under Gaza rubble
This Palestinian boy was pulled out of the rubble of his home 9 days after it was destroyed by an Israeli air attack.
As Israel strikes all around it, fear rises in Lebanon’s Sidon
Reeling from successive crises, the people of Sidon worry that the next one could come in the form of Israeli bombs.
Can US strikes on Yemen’s Houthis be justified as ‘self-defence’?
A US senator says such a claim is ‘laughable’ and calls on Biden to seek permission for strikes from Congress.
UN peacekeepers begin pullout from DR Congo’s restive east
Kinshasa has long accused the UN force of failing to protect civilians from the armed groups in the east of the country.
Israel’s war on Gaza: List of key events, day 147
Israeli troops fired on a crowd of Palestinians racing for food, generating a wave of condemnation.
More than 25,000 women and children killed in Gaza: US defence secretary
Austin’s estimate, in answer to a question by a congressman, is highest-level acknowledgement of Gaza’s huge death toll.