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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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 03 Feb 2023
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 02 Feb 2023
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 31 Jan 2023
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 27 Jan 2023
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 20 Jan 2023
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 19 Jan 2023
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 16 Jan 2023
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 13 Jan 2023
Globe and Mail
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?...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 05 Jan 2023
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 31 Dec 2022
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 30 Dec 2022
Globe and Mail
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....
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 22 Dec 2022
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 22 Dec 2022
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 16 Dec 2022
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 16 Dec 2022
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 13 Dec 2022
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 09 Dec 2022
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 08 Dec 2022
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 07 Dec 2022
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 02 Dec 2022
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 25 Nov 2022
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 20 Nov 2022
Globe and Mail