It’s always easy to feel prescient in hindsight. I recall conversations from 15 or 20 years ago with Western interlocutors – who are now from unfriendly nations – on NATO expansion. The discussions always began in a relatively solemn manner. From our side, we…
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Frontline report: Russians, North Koreans trapped in Kursk’s Nikolskii as resupply attempts intercepted
24 February 2025. Today, there are a lot of interesting updates from the Kursk direction in Russia.
- Screenshot from Reporting From Ukraine’s video.
Here, scattered Russian and North Korean remnants remain under a grueling siege in Nikolskii, with no way for Russians to resupply them. As…
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A new book chronicles the science of life in the air
Air-Borne
Carl Zimmer
Dutton, $32On March 10, 2020, 61 choir members rehearsed in a church hall in Skagit County, Wash. As they sang, a microscopic germ wafted through the air. Before the month’s end, 58 members were infected and five fell gravely ill. Across the United…
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Mission accompli: Macron charms Trump, and pushes back against him
If there’s a way to get to US President Donald Trump’s heart, then French President Emmanuel Macron has the map to it.
His visit to Washington, D.C., as Trump’s peace push picks up pace, has proved to be illustrative of this.
Macron’s objectives were clear-cut: one, to convince…
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The Benefits of Independent QC
How independent QC can help meet quality goals
Introduction
Quality control (QC) plays an important role in laboratory testing, enabling labs to monitor the analytical quality of a procedure, detect errors, and help ensure the reporting of accurate and…
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Ukraine: Post-war reconstruction set to cost $524 billion
The updated joint Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA4) commissioned by the Ukrainian Government, the World Bank Group, the European Commission and the UN, comes as Russia’s full-scale invasion enters its fourth year.
It covers damage…
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5 signs that a U.S.-Europe split is widening : NPR
Vice President JD Vance talks in front of the NATO logo at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 14.
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Can Europe replace the US in Ukraine? – POLITICO
A U.S. withdrawal would not only cost Ukraine about half its arms, it would also deprive the country of many of its “most effective” ones, according to Ben Barry, senior fellow for land warfare at IISS.
Some U.S. systems such as Abrams…
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EU spends more on Russian oil and gas than financial aid to Ukraine – report | Russia
The EU is spending more money on Russian fossil fuels than on financial aid to Ukraine, a report marking the third anniversary of the invasion has found.
EU member states bought €21.9bn (£18.1bn) of Russian oil and gas in the third year of the…
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Ukraine agrees minerals deal with US
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Kyiv has agreed terms with Washington on a minerals deal that Ukrainian officials hope will improve relations with the Trump…
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