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To Russian denials, America warns of an imminent invasion of Ukraine
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Russia’s foreign minister urged Vladimir Putin, the country’s president, to continue talks with the West over Ukraine...
Meanwhile, European energy prices surged by as much as 10% on fears of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine...
Jio Platforms, an Indian telecommunications giant, said it will launch a satellite-internet service in partnership with SES, a satellite company...
Lockheed Martin, the world’s biggest arms manufacturer by sales, pulled the plug on a $4.4bn deal to buy Aerojet Rocketdyne...
Russia’s military build-up enters a more dangerous phase
New satellite images show troops and equipment massing ever-closer to Ukraine
Banyan: Kishida Fumio’s “new capitalism” is many things, but it is not new
The prime minister’s big idea to reinvigorate Japan is better politics than economics
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Ukraine under threat
Explainer: How big is Russia’s military build-up around Ukraine?
It is the biggest concentration of firepower in Europe since the cold war
By invitation | Jens StoltenbergJens Stoltenberg explains how to step back from the brink of European conflict
The NATO chief says Russia must respect the rights of countries to choose their own path
Explainer: What is “Finlandisation”?
An unpleasant cold-war arrangement is contemplated for Ukraine
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Middle East & Africa
The African Union is less effective at 20 than it was at two
Its enforcement of democratic norms is slipping
Weekly edition: February 12th 2022
When the ride ends
Ukraine’s Minsky moment
Russia is invoking the Minsk agreement to sow chaos, not to bring peace
Indian democracy: festive but fraying
It is not just sectarianism that is ailing the body politic
Xi Jinping’s thinker-in-chief
Wang Huning’s career reveals much about political change in China
Redistricting: a bipartisan scandal
Democrats have fared well in Congress’s new maps, but the boundaries still favour Republicans
Technology Quarterly: January 29th 2022
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War among the sensors poses new challenges, says Shashank Joshi