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Simon Schama: when history is weaponised for war

As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world by Simon Schama Bad...

Al Jazeera correspondent gunned down on West Bank

es  Vienna, May 11, 2022  Updated 16/05/22 with investigation by Bellingcat  + Newsweek article by Rabbi Mark Goldfeder "Tragic Death Has Brought Out All...

Day 78 of the war – latest news and chronology

(es) Vienna, May 12, 2022 The Kyiv Independent, launched just before the war began, goes from strength to strength in brave and exact coverage of...

Kilic – opening the way with words

Vienna, May 3, 2022 by Edward Steen, Secretary-General A new "picture dictionary" to help Ukrainian children learn German has been published in Vienna by the celebrated...

Hospital within earshot of front line – photo essay

es Vienna, May 11, 2020 Reuters photo essay today, 11/05/22. The hospital in the small Ukrainian town of Bakhmut was never intended to receive queues of...

Taiwan’s call for proper WHO recognition at last

By Edward Steen, Secretary-General. Vienna, May 10, 2022 Taiwan, once again in China's firing line, has been badly rattled by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ...

The biter bit – official media and TV hacked by two anti-war Russian journalists

(es) May 10, 22, Vienna Two anti-war hackers working for one of the main Russian news-sites, Lenta.ru, fled the country and from abroad posted online...

Ukraine – into the third month

(es) Vienna, May 10, 2022 Russian forces conducting ‘storming operations’ on Azovstal steel plant  The shambles of Victory Day in Moscow yesterday has yet to provide...

DW suggests Putin stirring up trouble in Balkans

es Vienna, June 9, 2022 Slavic tradition and overt Russian backing (including by the Orthodox Church) have encouraged Serbia to stir up dissent and to...

What kind of Victory Day?

(es) Vienna, May 9, 2022  UPDATED MIDNIGHT “They made a desert,” the Roman historian Tacitus wrote of Rome’s warfare tactics, attributing the words to the...

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