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Ukrainian service members look for and collect unexploded shells after a fight with Russian raiding group in Kyiv on February 26.

Ukraine conflict: Russia's military gambit

Russia invokes the right to protect civilians doctrine, which was used by the U.S. in its post-Soviet Union wars, to a launch special military action

At a protest against the U.S. government’s move to freeze Afghanistan’s assets, in Kabul on February 15, 2022.

Sanctions farce: The U.S.' move to steal the Afghan people's money

The Biden administration’s decision to freeze $7 billion of Afghanistan’s assets, which has pushed the country into a deeper economic and humanitarian

Protesters demand the resignation of President Roch Kabore and the departure of French military forces in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on November 27, 2021.

A wave of coups in West Africa

The recent military takeovers in Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso are the result of increasing terror attacks from extremist forces aligned to Al Qaeda a

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Beijing on February 4. Russia and China have been able to forge a comprehensive strategic partnership after almost 60 years.

Historic summit between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin strengthens China-Russia ties

Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin agree to expand strategic and economic ties in the face of the West’s efforts to militarily encircle China an

Supporters of the women soccer team “Les Hijabeuses” with placards that read “Sports for all” and “Liberty, Egality, Fraternity for all” in Lille, France on February 16. This demonstration was part of a protest against the French Senate’s approval of a law that seeks to ban the hijab in competitive sports.

Islamophobia comes to a head in France

France, the first country in Europe to ban the wearing of full veils in public a decade ago, has since seen a deepening of Islamophobia, with the Sena

A delegation from the United Nations visits a site destroyed in the Saudi-led air strike in Saada in North Yemen, on January 27.

Yemen’s unending tragedy

Fresh military attacks by both the Houthi movement and the United States-backed, Saudi Arabia-led coalition signal a serious escalation of Yemen’s sev

Ukrainian servicemen in a trench on the front line in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, on January 28.

The U.S. fuelling tensions in the face of what it says is an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine

Both Russia and Ukraine have rejected the West’s propaganda that a Russian invasion of that country is imminent, but that has not deterred the U.S. an

Novak Djokovic leaves the Park Hotel detention facility in Melbourne after his Australian visa was revoked on January 16.

Djokovic case highlights Australia’s xenophobic border laws

Tennis star Novak Djokovic may be an egocentric personality with contrarian views, but inadvertently, when his visa application for participating in t

Smoke rises from the city hall building during a protest in Almaty on January 5. In the former capital city, the protests turned into a virtual insurrection.

Kazakhstan: Another colour revolution?

Violent protests rock Kazakhstan for the first time in 30 years. The Kazakh President claims that external actors were involved in the plot to destabi

A nucleic acid test for COVID-19 at a private testing site in Beijing on January 17.

Omicron: Another global wave of COVID-19

The Omicron variant has swept across the world, affecting even countries with “zero COVID” policy such as China as well as the countries that had rela

Rescue teams working to recover bodies from the debris of a house destroyed in an air strike on the western side of Mosul on March 24, 2017.

‘The Civilian Casualty Files’ expose the Pentagon’s killing fields in West Asia

‘The Civilian Casualty Files’, a groundbreaking investigation based on hundreds of confidential Pentagon files, reveals that military air strikes auth

Gen. Min Aung Hlaing presides at an army parade on Armed Forces Day in Nay Pyi Taw on March 27, 2021.

Myanmar's military leadership shows no sign of backing down as the first anniversary of its coup approaches

The army leadership appears unrelenting in its bid to remain the dominant player in Myanmar’s politics despite its alienation from the majority of the

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