Russia attacks nuclear plant, blaze extinguished

Russian troops attacked Europe’s largest nuclear power plant on Friday, setting part of the Ukrainian facility ablaze in an assault the country’s leader branded “nuclear terror” and said could endanger the continent.

Russia steps up attacks on Ukrainian cities

Russian forces stepped up attacks on cities across Ukraine Tuesday and warned they would target security buildings in the capital Kyiv, as the West promised more devastating sanctions, and the UN appealed

Russia banking sanctions blowback on Cyprus

Cyprus striving to recover from the pandemic is hindered after the EU’s latest banking sanctions on Russia will also affect the island’s services sector, say stakeholders. Many Russian offshore companies will now

Europe’s darkest hour

Putin’s sucker punch to the West could be seen coming from space, but the pugilists in the ring didn’t think he would risk a hammer blow at the heart of democracy in

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Russia-Ukraine war a paradigm shift in diplomacy

According to John Mearsheimer, the eminent American international relations scholar, “what money is to economics, power is to international relations”. Indeed, the two major assumptions/tenets of rationality and maximisation, either of wealth

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No solidarity in sanctions

Sanctions are ineffective; solidarity is non-existent, and you’re on your own. This conclusion is as relevant to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to instil a pro-Kremlin regime change in Kyiv, as much as

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PM back on attack as UK rallies against Russia

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, besieged for weeks by scandal and economic crisis, is back on the offensive as he unites Britain’s warring politicians against a common enemy in Russia’s Vladimir Putin. While

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