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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Damascus on 5 April for the first official visit by a Ukrainian president to Syria, meeting with President Ahmed al-Sharaa and agreeing to work together on security, food supply, and Syria’s energy and infrastructure challenges, according to Zelenskyy’s Telegram channel. The visit caps aContinue Reading

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From a corner table here in Virmenka café, three days after a Shahed drone hit downtown Lviv’s 17th-century Bernardine monastery, I consider how Ukraine’s complex history exposes its vulnerability to not just Russian imperialism but also to Western simplifications. Three ladies in their 50s sit across from me, one updating her lipstick.Continue Reading

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Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins and investigative reporter Katie Surma as they discuss how the Shuar people in Ecuador are combining ancestral knowledge and modern science to protect their forest from a Canadian mining giant. By Katie Surma In the copper-rich mountains of southeastern Ecuador,Continue Reading