Thousands of Russians have travelled to monasteries and priests for exorcisms since the start of the Ukraine war.
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Russian forces are still battling over territory in eastern Ukraine after 1,418 days of war.
Baltic countries offer Canada a clear blueprint for countering Russian coercion, preparing for crisis and building resilience without surrendering democratic values.
With an average temperature of -50°C, Antarctica’s first-ever 100% natural sanctuary protects endangered ice cores from global warming.
US wound down its presence in Greenland at the end of the cold war. Now it wants to beef it up again.
Ukraine may need a major, system-level change or crisis in Russia to regain any lost territories.
The use of unresigistered or falsely registered ships by Russia and other countries trying to avoid sanctions is becoming an increasing feature of global conflict.
An expert in international maritime law spells out what the international law of the sea has to say on incidents of this sort.
The US intervention in Venezuela makes it clear NZ’s ‘softly softly’ foreign policy isn’t a feasible long-term response to a shifting world order.
The new US National Security Strategy marks a historic break – and a problem for the NZ government’s policy of closer strategic alignment with Washington.
Russia can still sustain the war in Ukraine, but only by passing more of the cost on to households and firms.
North Korea was behind a $1.5 billion digital bank heist in February 2025. Other countries are similarly stealing crypto to fund nefarious activities.
Just war theory, a centuries-old field of ethics, deals with how and when to start conflicts. It can also guide decisions about how and when to end them.
The Trump administration is highly critical of Europe in its national security strategy, while barely mentioning the threats posed by rival great powers.
Whichever outcome emerges from the Ukraine peace negotiations, it appears no position rooted in the defence of international law will prevail.
Building in safeguards, including third-party monitoring, can increase the chances of a successful peace by almost a third, research shows.
Thirteen Jewish leaders and artists were killed on the ‘Night of the Murdered Poets,’ one of the campaign’s most infamous examples of persecution.
Business envoys can offer fresh ideas, but in the Ukraine talks their transactional tendencies risk producing a settlement that is neither fair nor stable.
Once again, Trump has proven he is more interested in long-term deals with autocrats than achieving just and lasting resolutions to security crises.
In a war that’s lasted almost four years, a former diplomat says it’s not realistic to say, ‘In the next week, come up with a very complicated peace deal, sign off on it and it’s going to stick.’
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