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Vanesa Gaskova, of Slovakia, competes in the para alpine skiing women’s super combined slalom standing at the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics in Yanqing. The International Paralympic Committee banned Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing, fo

Russia holds up threat of rocketing energy prices Moscow stoked fears of an energy war by threatening to close a major gas pipeline to Germany after the US pushed its European allies to consider banning imports of Russian oil over its invasion of Ukr

Ten days ago Kharkiv was a flourishing metropolis and home to 1.5 million people. It was, as resident Galina Padalko put it, “a beautiful place”. There were parks, a new German architect-designed zoo, thriving cafes and restaurants and a monumental c

Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed to punish “every bastard” who committed atrocities during the invasion of Ukraine amid outrage at Russia’s shelling of civilians as they tried to flee a town on the outskirts of Kyiv, killing a young family. The president of

The first day of the invasion – 24 February – was my 15th wedding anniversary. We had planned a party and had booked a table in a restaurant. But about 5am, my wife, my 10-year-old son and I were woken by Russian rockets flying over our home. The fir

Since Russian rockets first began to slam into Ukraine, approaching 2 million people have fled over the borders of neighbouring European countries into a frightening and uncertain future. What we are witnessing, the United Nations has warned, is the

At the train station in Przemyśl in Poland, thousands of refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine get off the carriages every day, seeking asylum in Europe. As they arrive, dozens of Polish border guards and soldiers distribute food, water, b

A week ago the sight was unthinkable: a memorial at the site of one of the worst massacres of the Holocaust, engulfed in smoke and flame from an airstrike. Yet last Tuesday a Russian attack near the Babyn Yar memorial complex in Kyiv achieved exactly

It must have looked so simple to Vladimir Putin; a lightning strike by superior Russian forces would quickly topple the Ukrainian regime. The Kremlin would have bargained for the invasion being met with sanctions, but assumed these would be a minor i

Five Russian soldiers sit in a brick building. They are blindfolded: the latest prisoners to be captured inside Ukraine. A Ukrainian voice interrogates them. “Speak,” he says to the group’s Russian officer. What message would he like to send to his s

More than 4,300 people have been arrested after demonstrators took to the streets in 21 Russian cities last Sunday to condemn Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, while protesters in Kazakhstan turned out to chant “No to war” and “Putin is a dickhea

“War comes very early to the theatre,” said the Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg. “Then he stands around waiting in the wings.” This time too. For a few years, there has been something, somebody, moving in the shadow of the stage curtain. Only a few peop

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Last month, scientists working with data from Tropomi, a monitoring instrument onboard the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-5 satellite, published some startling findings. Writing in the journal Science, the team reported it had found about 1,800 ins

The first thing I did was watch that clip. Shut your eyes and you can probably picture it. Shane Warne’s first ball in the Ashes, at Old Trafford, Manchester on 4 June 1993, his choppy blond hair ruffling in the wind, the zinc cream smeared across hi

When Jenni Metcalfe returned to her Brisbane home to survey the damage as the nearby river peaked, water had already risen a metre up the back wall. There was nothing she could do. “I sat in the gutter and watched it and cried,” she said. Communities

Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, has managed to do what Joe Biden could not: bridge the partisan divide and bring, however fleetingly, Congress together. Many Democrats and Republicans who attended the US president’s first State of the Union

’Can we get a round of applause for Russia?” asked Nick Fuentes, on stage last week at a white nationalist event. Just days after he invaded Ukraine, many attendees responded by shouting: “Putin! Putin!” It would be easy to dismiss the America First

I can’t say I have confidence in the future, but I have a lot of confidence in its unpredictability, based on the fact that the past has regularly delivered surprises. It’s easy to forget in retrospect how astonishing the fall of the Berlin Wall and

Clothing: Theory coat, Eileen Fisher top, Zero + Maria Cornejo trousers THE LAST TIME ANGELA DAVIS WAS IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, she caught up with childhood friends and her Sunday school teacher. While many of us would reminisce about favourite classe

The official Uefa Europa League account tweeted “Happy Thursday everyone!” on the morning of 24 February, looking ahead to a crucial round of matches in Europe’s second most prestigious men’s football competition. Alas, not everyone was in quite as f

ELIZABETH WRAIGE REMEMBERS THE FIRST TIME SHE DELIVERED THE DIAGNOSIS. “Parents feel as if they’ve been hit by a sledge-hammer,” she says. Her patient, a baby boy, had been born tiny and perfect to overjoyed parents six months earlier. But they had b

In some of London’s most exclusive neighbourhoods, you can suddenly sense the kind of unease that wealth usually keeps at bay. As the government talks up its crackdown on Russian oligarchs, a much wider shift may be afoot. Last Friday, the Financial

PATRICKSTEWART IS SLIGHTLY SURPRISED to be talking about the impending second series of Star Trek: Picard, during a break from shooting the third in California. The reason is that he so firmly turned down the first season. After playing Captain Jean-

We have barely had time to draw breath after Inventing Anna, the story of super-grifter Anna Sorokin, who parlayed an innate grasp of upper-class manners into a life of plenty among the moneyed elite of New York. Now we have The Dropout, the story of

Every postwar British leader has seen the Middle East as a threatening place. They worried about the loss of empire and the risk of having oil supplies cut off, and made bombastic claims about new Hitlers and terrorism. But one thing has been remarka

It looks like something from a wildly imaginative sci-fi comic, an impossible vision of worlds slamming into each other in a fantastical collage. Elevated walkways leap across the sky while a trio of towers rise up like serrated blades, their edges s

One of my favourite books of the past few years was a debut novel by an Argentinian art critic that didn’t get nearly enough attention when it was published in translation in 2019. Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza is a digressive, virtually plotless accou

What are the best recipes for using the whole of a citrus fruit? Jon, London E11 The most famous is Claudia Roden’s zero-waste orange and almond cake. She boils a couple of oranges in water until soft, then cuts them open (discarding the seeds) and p

Prep 15 min Chill 2 hr Cook 1 hr 30 min Serves 2 For the dough 200g plain flour, plus extra to dust2 tbsp granulated sugarSalt and black pepper115g unsalted butter, cut into 1cm cubes120g caerphilly (or other crumbly hard cheese), grated60ml iced wat

Storms, like sorrows, come not single spies these days, but in battalions. Or at least, that was my impression from listening to the news. So between the exit of Dudley and the entrance of Eunice, I hurried out to check on some vulnerable old trees.