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Moving Back To Moscow: How Dream Of Freedom Unravelled

The army of riot police had finally retreated from Tbilisi's Rustaveli Avenue, the broad thoroughfare in front of the parliament building, back into the barricaded parliamentary estate.

News Of Raisi's Death Met With Fireworks And Few Tears

Activists in Iran have said there is little mood to mourn the death of the president, Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash near the border with Azerbaijan on Sunday.

Red Flag? Alito Scandal Casts Doubt On Supreme Court Impartiality

With less than six months to go before America chooses its next president, the US supreme court finds itself in an unenviable position: not only has it been drawn into a volatile election, but swirling ethical scandals have cast doubt on its impartiality.

Infected blood Final report vindicates the families still awaiting justice

\"We have been gaslit for generations,\" was the reaction of Andy Evans, chair of the campaign group Tainted Blood, in response to the final report into the contaminated blood scandal, which was published on Monday.

The race to evacuate Vovchansk's remaining residents

Rescue operations ever more dangerous as fighting reaches Kharkiv townat the centre of Russia’s latest offensive

Alice Munro 1931 -2024

The Nobel prize winner whose masterly accounts of ordinary lives in smalltown Canada elevated the short story into the highest form of literature

Creativity takes root

From Nikide Saint Phalle's Tuscan Tarot Garden to Barbara Hepworth's coastal oasis, artists’ green spaces are about somuch more than plants

Tory war on overseas students is all about saving their own skins

A key turning point in British politics was Tony Blair's famous priorities: \"education, education, education\".

Catalans once longed for freedom, but it doesn't look so appealing now

For the first time since 1980, parties opposing Catalonia's independence from Spain have the support of a majority of voters in the region.

I believe that Ricky's law has saved lives, it has changed lives, restored families'

Ricky Klausmeyer-Garcia’s friends struggled to get him addiction treatment, leading to the creation of alawin his name. Buta year after his death, profound questions remain about how best to help those with substance use disorder in the US.

The enforcer

For 40 years Amit Shah has been at Narendra Modis side, his confidant and consigliere. As India’s second most powerful man, he is reshaping the country in disturbing ways.

The heat is on

Memory lapses can be scary and hot flushes excruciating. But we know much more now about the menopause. And the aftermath can be amazing

Desert film festival brings home the plight of refugees

From the outside, Asria Mohamed's tent in a refugee camp in south-west Algeria could be mistaken for a typical nomadic dwelling used by Sahrawis, people from Western Sahara, though it is smaller in size.

Outgunned Police cling on in critical battle with violent gangs

Nine hours and countless bullets after gunmen began bombarding Stanley's police station in Port-au-Prince, the twentysomething officer started fearing he would not make it out alive.

Judy fights back to give Mr Punch a modern touch

After 362 years of frankly horrendous treatment at the hands of her husband, Mr Punch, Judy has had enough.

At a crossroads Baku to step away.from oil legacy as it prepares for Cop29

Oil is inescapable in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

Game of thrones Warmachine reshuffle reveals Putin's fear of Kremlin rivals

When the Russian defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, was removed from his post and appointed head of the security council last week, there were two big questions on everyone's mind.

Rocky path President's death comes as challenges lie ahead

The death of the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter crash comes at a time when the country, faced by unprecedented external challenges, was already bracing itself for a change in regime with the expected demise in the next few years of its 85-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Self-fulfilling prophecy? Political violence could benefit far-right parties in EU polls-if we let it

The shooting of the Slovakian prime minister, Robert Fico, has dramatised the increasingly angry and polarised landscape of European politics.

Alarm bells Behind the rise in violent attacks on Europe's politicians

‘Politicians really need tothink about the rhetoric they use because the fallout can be severe’

Warning signals

The attempt on the life of Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico, exposed divisions in one of Europe's most polarised countries and sent shockwaves across the continent

'Pretendians' Controversy Over Formerly Unheard-Of First Nation

Local chiefs claim Kawartha Lakes group is part of wave of cases in which people falsely claim Indigenous identity

This Is The Emptying Of Rafah

Thousands of displaced Gazans are on the move again, packing their lives into carts and pickup trucks, as Israel's campaign against Hamas rages on

Vast Online Scam Dupes Thousands Of Shoppers

More than 800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online designer shops apparently operated from China.

Why Didn't Netflix Do More To Avoid The Baby Reindeer Furore?

What will happen next in the Baby Reindeer saga? Probably one or more bad things.

Picture this

From the galleries and squats of the 90s London art world to the riches of Covid-era New York, a tale of reunion, fame and fallout

Hit and miss Goths, glory and plenty of gimmicks

It was the most politically charged Eurovision song contest in memory-but it was won by a famously neutral nation. As the glittery dust settles from Saturday night in Malmö, Sweden, here's what we learned

Rose Boyt, daughter of the artist Lucian Freud, sat for her father three times.Now 65, she has written a remarkable memoir based on diaries she kept while being painted

ROSE BOYT'S MEMOIR, Naked Portrait, is, in the narrowest sense, her account of sitting for three paintings for her father, Lucian Freud.

A failure to reckon fully with the Troubles fuels distrust and discord

Fifty years ago, on 17 May 1974, my father, a bus conductor, was out on strike.

Believe it or not

Raffaella Spone was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and subjected to death threats. The problem? The video wasn't fake after all. She talks for the first time about being the centre of a story that created headlines around the world, yet nothing was as it seemed...