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From the Maidan protests to Russia's invasion: Eight years of conflict in Ukraine

TIMELINE
Europe

‘Pushed back because we’re Black’: Africans stranded at Ukraine-Poland border

ON THE GROUND
Europe

Political animals: Paris Agricultural Fair is time-honoured ritual for presidential candidates

FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
France

Pushing far-right agenda, French news networks shape election debate

FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Europe

Ukraine crisis: A low-cost disinformation campaign aids Putin’s playbook

HYBRID WARFARE
Europe

Moldova, then Georgia, now Ukraine: How Russia built ‘bridgeheads into post-Soviet space’

Analysis
Europe

Tunisian NGOs triumph in David-vs-Goliath toxic waste battle with Italy

ENVIRONMENT
Africa

Covid-19 in Africa: 'The doses are here, but vaccine hesitancy remains high'

INTERVIEW
Africa

Poland: Where ‘women pay a high price’ for populist laws

WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Europe

Military tactics: Zelensky plays both sides in Ukrainian crisis

UKRAINE CRISIS
Europe

Skater Timothy LeDuc: First non-binary athlete to compete in Winter Olympics

Olympic Games
Sport

In vaccine-sceptic France, candidates walk tightrope on Covid measures

French presidential election
Europe

Barkhane, Takuba, Sabre: French and European military missions in the Sahel

In maps
Africa

With French troops poised to withdraw, Mali will have free rein to negotiate with jihadists

OPERATION BARKHANE
Africa

Should I stay or should I go? Ukrainians remain resolute despite a war of nerves

WAR – MENTAL HEALTH
Europe

Domestic violence in France: When the perpetrator is a police officer

Europe

Explainer: What does a French president do?

French presidential election
Europe

Explainer: How does France's two-round presidential election work?

French Presidential Election
France

Winter Olympics puts brands under pressure over rights abuses in China

Human Rights
Asia / Pacific

Why is secular France doubling funding for Christian schools in the Middle East?

ANALYSIS
France

Soaring pneumonia and starvation is killing thousands of children in Afghanistan

AFGHANISTAN HEALTH CRISIS
Asia / Pacific

Explainer: Why are 500 signatures required to run for president of France?

French presidential election
Europe

Myanmar coup anniversary: Government in exile urges France to act against junta

Myanmar coup - one year on
Asia / Pacific

‘Leave or die’: Myanmar refugees recount how they fled the junta

MYANMAR COUP - ONE YEAR ON
Asia / Pacific

Ukraine’s citizen-soldiers train to fight in case of Russian invasion

ON THE GROUND
Europe

Did NATO ‘betray’ Russia by expanding to the East?

Ukraine crisis
RUSSIA

Nord Stream 2: Russia-Germany gas pipeline becomes a geopolitical lever

Ukraine crisis
Europe

'Swipe left for unvaxxed’: Vaccine status complicates the scene on dating apps

LOVE AND THE PANDEMIC
Europe

Ukraine: Kharkiv resilient as it faces the threat of a Russian invasion

ON THE GROUND
Europe

Inside an Africa Cup fan zone, ‘everybody enjoys football in their own way’

AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS
Sport

Security in the Sahel: Is the Takuba Task Force still welcome in Mali?

ANALYSIS
Africa

A French citizens’ initiative – the ‘People’s Primary’ – aims to fix democracy

FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
Europe

Burkina Faso: A history of destabilisation by jihadist insurgencies

Africa

‘The Russians are coming’: Sweden on edge as Russia flexes military muscle

ANALYSIS
Europe

Attacks on the UAE: 'A new chapter has begun in the Yemen conflict'

Analysis
Middle East

‘Like Formula 1’: A look inside the Guinea team’s fitness regime

AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS
Sport

‘We’re at war’: The ‘Lithuanian Elves’ who take on Russian trolls online

INTERVIEW
Europe

Scientists scrutinise characteristics of new Omicron sub-variant BA.2

COVID-19
Europe

'Gentle' France lags behind eager EU neighbours in race to vaccinate kids as Omicron rages

INSIGHT
Europe

Is the Ukrainian military really a David against the Russian Goliath?

DEFENCE
Europe

Sexual harassment in Lebanon: A crime that goes unnoticed

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Middle East

Vincent Aboubakar: Cameroon’s goalscoring powerhouse taking football by storm

AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS
Sport

Fighting endometriosis: ‘I don’t know what it means to be free from pain’

LONG READ
Europe

'Tax us now' to reduce wealth inequality, say global millionaires

Tackling inequality
Economy

Mali’s junta seeks review of ‘unbalanced’ defence deal with France

ANALYSIS
Africa

France celebrates 25th unicorn in strong start to 2022 for tech sector

French Tech
Europe

‘A massacre’: Environmentalists fight Metro plan that threatens Parisian forest

Europe

MI5 warning about influence efforts of British-Chinese lawyer marks changed tone

GEOPOLITICS
Europe

Assassination mars Cameroon's football fiesta, exposes missed political goals

FOOTBALL AND POLITICS
Africa

‘A tragic joke’: Master trickster Silvio Berlusconi eyes Italy’s top job

Analysis
Europe

French teachers and school personnel stage historic strike over inadequate Covid-19 rules

Europe

Rebel, stateswoman and poet: Can Christiane Taubira fire up France’s moribund left?

FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Europe

French presidential candidates fight for youth vote on TikTok

2022 FRENCH ELECTIONS
Europe

Loved ones fear for Frenchman detained in Iran for 'spying'

HUMAN RIGHTS
Middle East

How claims of a French variant grabbed global headlines

Covid-19
Europe

‘I’d like to feel free’: Unvaccinated French people on life without a health pass

COVID-19
France

Macron’s blunt vow to ‘piss off’ the unvaccinated takes aim at centrist voters

2022 FRENCH ELECTIONS
France

Detained Ugandan satirical novelist displays signs of torture on brief home visit

HUMAN RIGHTS
Africa

Schoolchildren face fraught return to class as Omicron runs amok in France

COVID-19
Europe

French police face disciplinary hearings amid high numbers of femicide

Violence against women
France

Djamel Belmadi, the Algerian manager ‘more popular than the president’

AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS
Sport

Moscow uses 'foreign agent' status to harass and persecute opponents

HUMAN RIGHTS
Europe

Health pass or vaccine pass: Europe eyes tighter Covid control measures

COVID-19
Europe

China’s data ‘disappearance’ makes information access rough going for outsiders

ANALYSIS
Asia / Pacific

The Capitol riot, the Taliban's return and a submarine dispute: 10 top news stories in 2021

Retrospective
France

Party or pyjamas? New Year’s celebrations in France to go ahead despite record Covid cases

Covid-19
Europe

Tackling vaccine inequality: ‘There aren’t enough vaccines in the world’

COVID-19
Europe

Success of online medical portal Doctolib highlights the French state’s failure to digitise

COVID-19
Europe

Amid Russia tensions, Lithuania advocates for more robust Western response

Analysis
Europe

Varied and powerful, 2021's Iranian films entrance a growing French audience

cinema
Culture

As deadlines are missed, presidential election in Libya mired in uncertainty

Analysis
Africa

Chile’s presidential race enters final stretch amid accusation of ‘dirty campaign’

Americas