Category: 4. World

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday that his troops will take Ukraine’s eastern Donbas by force if it is not ceded by Kyiv, describing some proposals in a US plan to end the war in Ukraine as unacceptable to the Kremlin.

Putin, who is on a state visit to India, said in an…

A year after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Syria remains a country very much in transition. Much of its infrastructure is in tatters, and the price tag for rebuilding the war-torn state stands at over $200 billion. It is in desperate…

Summary of some core findings in the major nine-country poll released on Thursday by French magazine Le Grand Continent: 

• Just over half of respondents (51%) felt the risk of war with Russia was elevated
• More than 80% did not believe that…