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Zelensky is angry and he wants you to know it
With hunched shoulders, the Ukrainian president rams home his points by banging his fingers on the desk of the situation room during an exclusive interview.
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World politics
What to expect around the world in 2024
Amid hope for less war and a better year, our correspondents take a look at the major issues they will be watching in their patch.
- by Eryk Bagshaw, Chris Barrett, Lucy Cormack, Rob Harris, Farrah Tomazin, Lia Timson and Matt Wade
Danish crowds cheer their next king and queen amid strong approval ratings
Denmark’s king-in-waiting, Frederik, and his Australian-born wife Mary, have been raucously cheered by crowds at their first public appearance since Queen Margrethe’s shock abdication.
- by Rob Harris
Archaeologists stumped by Anglo-Saxon artefact ‘completely unlike’ any other
Despite the skill which would have been required to make it, the roughly 1200-year-old object has no apparent purpose.
- by Craig Simpson
Denmark’s ‘smoking Queen’ who ruled the longest of anyone in its 1200-year history
Queen Margrethe II, after undergoing surgery in 2023, quit a heavy smoking habit that had lasted 66 years and often was subject of debate.
- by Christian Wienberg
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Royalty
A shocking certainty, Princess Mary’s elevation to queen nears completion
The abdication announcement by Denmark’s Queen Margrethe caught even veteran observers of Europe’s oldest ruling monarchy unawares.
- by Rob Harris
In escalation, Russian drones strike Ukrainian hotel, kindergarten, shops
Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had targeted “decision-making centres and military facilities” in Kharkiv.
- by Illia Novikov
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Royalty
Denmark’s Queen Margrethe to abdicate, paving the way for Prince Frederik
Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II will abdicate on January 14 after 52 years on the throne, she said in her annual New Year’s Eve speech on Sunday.
- by Rob Harris
Margot Robbie’s favourite London nightclub forced to rehome pet fish
A popular nightclub has been forced to rehome its resident tropical fish after becoming embroiled in an animal rights row.
- by Blathnaid Corless
Ukraine launches deadliest attack on a Russian city since war began
The attack seemed to be Ukraine’s response to a deadly air assault a day earlier, and another sign of Kyiv’s determination to bring the war to Moscow’s doorstep.
- by Constant Méheut and Ivan Nechepurenko
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Asylum seekers
Gillian Triggs says no one is copying Australia’s refugee policies
UNHCR’s outgoing Assistant High Commissioner for Protection says the UK’s failure to send asylum seekers offshore has demonstrated to the rest of Europe that hardline methods don’t work.
- by Latika Bourke