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Why cutting aid to buy bombs is making us less safe
With conflicts raging around the world, aid budgets are being slashed in favour of defence spending.
But experts are warning that cutting aid may not…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
China bosses vanishing as Xi Jinping’s childhood traumas trigger Mao style purge
Xi Jinping is the most authoritarian and longest serving Chinese leader since Mao - and probably the most powerful man on earth. But what makes him t…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Nato is running out of TNT. How did we fall behind Russia and China?
TNT, the unglamorous but indispensable ingredient of modern warfare, is now in critically short supply and Britain is feeling the consequences. A new…
11 months ago
Indiscriminate weapons: how wars became so deadly for civilians
More children are being killed by explosive weapons than at any other time in history, according to a major new report by Save the Children and Imper…
11 months ago
Biggest US military buildup since Cuban Missile Crisis puts Latin America on edge
America is flexing its muscles in the Caribbean and the world is holding its breath. Washington has trained its sights on Socialist-run Venezuela, an…
11 months ago
Trump and the ex-terrorist: why the West needs Syria to work
The Syrian civil war raged for years, wrecked a nation, and then quietly vanished from the headlines. Last December, a jihadist faction once aligned …
11 months, 1 week ago
Inside the bloody work of tracking war crimes from space
For more than two years a vicious civil war has been raging in Sudan. It’s been defined by massacres, rapes, displacement, and starvation.
As the UN …
11 months, 1 week ago
'Worse than war with Israel': Why Iran's regime is on edge
Sanctions, nationwide protests, even Israeli airstrikes haven’t broken the Iranian regime. Could a drought finally bring the Islamic Republic to its …
11 months, 1 week ago
Germany is finally rearming against Russia. Can it go fast enough?
Germany is rearming, and fast. A sentence that once sent shivers down Europe’s spine is now a shocking reality. This isn’t the Germany of old; it’s a…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Ukraine's troops are facing an amputation crisis
In Ukraine, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned from the frontlines without limbs. Most of them will require support in some form for the res…
11 months, 2 weeks ago