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Ukraine says Black Sea grain shipments deliberately delayed by Russian inspectors - or lack of them

Shipments from Ukraine’s three operating Black Sea ports, among them Odesa, have fallen to a four-month low in recent weeks...

Published on: 03 Feb 2023

Russia plans major offensive to mark war anniversary, Ukraine warns

Russian troops amassing along border and in occupied territories is approaching 500,000 – far more than Moscow claims – says Ukraine’s defence minister...

Published on: 02 Feb 2023

Human Rights Watch says Ukraine likely used banned landmines

HRW urges Ukraine to investigate evidence its military spread thousands of anti-personnel landmines in Izium when it was occupied by Russians forces...

Published on: 31 Jan 2023

Lebanon is on the verge of becoming a failed state after an unprecedented economic collapse

Ukraine’s GDP fell about 30% last year, while Lebanon’s GDP fell 58% between 2019 and 2021, according to the World Bank – and Lebanon is not at war...

Published on: 27 Jan 2023

The Russian economy proved remarkably resilient in 2022. This year, the decay will set in

Rather suddenly, the financial calculus is going against Russia just as the Russian recession deepens and the war bills pile up in President Vladimir Putin’s office...

Published on: 20 Jan 2023

Pope Francis ups the ante on greater transparency with reopening of the Emanuela Orlandi case

The cold case of a Vatican teen who disappeared in 1983 is considered one of the greatest mysteries in postwar Italian and Vatican history...

Published on: 19 Jan 2023

Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrested after 30 years on the lam

Messina Denaro, who has been accused of dozens of murders, was arrested during a visit to a private health clinic in Palermo, Sicily...

Published on: 16 Jan 2023

The energy crisis that wasn’t: How Europe escaped the worst of Russia’s natural gas war

There is no imminent danger that gas supplies will vanish any time soon – incredibly, European storage tanks are almost full...

Published on: 13 Jan 2023

Pope Benedict’s funeral was simple, fairly small and brought the ‘two popes’ era to an end

Benedict’s death has Vatican watchers wondering whether Francis will also resign – and, if so, when?...

Published on: 05 Jan 2023

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will be remembered as conservative academic more than dynamic leader

Benedict XVI was an intellectual, conservative theologian who lacked the charm and global presence of both his predecessor, John Paul II, and his successor...

Published on: 31 Dec 2022

Ukrainian captain credits her Canadian training for helping her evade Russian attack

Combat skills taught through Operation Unifier by Canadian soldiers helped Iryna Hazhev guide her unit to safety...

Published on: 30 Dec 2022

Life in the field and in the bomb shelter: The UN’s Canadian chief in Ukraine faces the humanitarian challenge of a lifetime

Denise Brown’s work has brought her to some of the most tragic hotspots from Afghanistan to Somalia. In that sense, Ukraine is no different. Yet it is completely different....

Published on: 22 Dec 2022

Ukraine’s wartime Christmas: Half-empty malls, few family gifts and soldiers bracing for a Dec. 25 attack

In Kyiv, people are celebrating the holidays despite the war, but parents are preparing children to understand that this season will be different from previous ones...

Published on: 22 Dec 2022

The man in charge of keeping Ukraine from financial collapse

Sergii Marchenko, Ukraine’s Finance Minister, has become one of the most prominent figures in global finance since the start of the war...

Published on: 16 Dec 2022

Russian mass air attack on Ukraine kills civilians, cuts power across country

Blasts in Kyiv, Kharkiv and other cities kill several civilians, force Kyiv to introduce emergency power cuts across the country...

Published on: 16 Dec 2022

Russia preparing major offensive in new year, Ukraine foreign minister says as Kyiv pleads for artillery, generators

Dmytro Kuleba echoes NATO’s view on ambitions and strategy of Vladimir Putin...

Published on: 13 Dec 2022

Europe approves short-haul flight bans to bring down emissions. Canada cannot even consider the same climate win

As the high-speed rail network expands across Europe, airlines are scaling back their domestic routes, especially those under 500 to 600 kilometres...

Published on: 09 Dec 2022

Climate change threatens to drown Egyptian city of Alexandria, destroy key farmland

Rising sea levels are threatening the ancient port built by Alexander the Great and changing the chemical balance of farmland that Egypt cannot afford to lose...

Published on: 08 Dec 2022

Egypt’s soaring bread prices are chewing a hole in the unsubsidized lower middle class

Anger among the lower-middle class in Egypt is rising along with food prices, boosting the potential for unrest in a country that has little fiscal leeway...

Published on: 07 Dec 2022

The new price cap on Russian oil will not deliver the fatal blow to Putin’s war machine, maybe not even a bruise

The cap is more an exercise in economic diplomacy than in the economics of pain. The cap has to be high enough to persuade Russia to keep producing oil, yet low enough to hurt it...

Published on: 02 Dec 2022

Time to kill off the big, fat COP climate conferences that accomplish almost nothing

The COP climate conferences started out as a good idea, but the results speak for themselves...

Published on: 25 Nov 2022

UN climate summit reaches historic deal for rich countries to pay for developing world’s climate disasters

The UN’s climate conference in Egypt limped over the finish line Sunday morning with a commitment to launch a fund to compensate poor countries suffering from catastrophic climate-change events. The breakthrough spared the COP27 event from total collapse.Agreeing to launch a “loss and damage” fund stood out because few other...

Published on: 20 Nov 2022