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A selection of our coverage of the war in Ukraine from the past fortnight.
Ukrainian refugee with a child leaves the country at the Slovakian border fleeing Russian aggression against Ukraine, February 2022.
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Gender plays a huge part in the experiences of displaced people.
Young Vietnamese people at a demonstration in London.
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Vietnamese migrants are protesting against what is happening in their home country, after years of not knowing what was happening.
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The far-right Alternative for Germany is courting the youth vote on TikTok with great success, ahead of the elections in June.
US soldiers on manoeuvres in Poland with Nato allies.
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Without the US’s stockpile of nuclear weapons to protect it, Europe may have to increase its defences.
Demonstration at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on the day of the nuclear phase-out, 15 April 2023.
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Understanding Berlin’s nuclear exit, one year on.
Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, arrives in Beijing to meet President Xi on April 15 2024.
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President Xi is looking to play a wider international role, meetings with other national leaders suggest.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, meets Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy on June 1, 2023.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz outlined bold, long-term goals: Strengthen the country’s depleted military with extraordinary investments and adopt assertive foreign policy defending global norms.
The Morning Comes (1793-1821), by William Blake.
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
A subtle and thoughtful show, full of shimmering connections that put Blake back in touch with European art figures and influences.
Emsland Camps Archive
A radical research project in Scotland has created a new layer of history for a concentration camp archive in Germany.
The SS Hartdale is lying at a depth of 80 metres, 12 miles off the coast of Northern Ireland.
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The SS Hartdale was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915 and its final resting place had long been unknown.
Police raid an area of Berlin in the hunt for terrorists.
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Daniela Klette was working as a maths tutor in Berlin under an assumed name.
People in Hamburg, Germany, protest against right-wing extremism and the AfD party on Feb. 25, 2024.
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Hundreds of thousands of people in Germany are taking to the streets to push back against the far-right, nationalist policies of the AfD, which currently holds 11% of the seats in parliament.
The imam of the Khadija Mosque, in the Pankow district of Berlin, talks to visitors.
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The Turkish government started sending imams to Germany in the 1980s, but under a new agreement, imams will be trained in Germany instead.
Ghassan Hage.
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Ghassan Hage has been sacked by Germany’s prestigious Max Planck Foundation due to his trenchant criticism of Israel’s war. It’s just the latest in an ongoing culture war in Germany.
Mapped out.
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German economic power is propping up the euro. But this cannot continue indefinitely.
A crowd gathers around the organ at St. Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany, to witness an October 2013 note change.
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The new note will be sustained for a relatively ‘brief’ two years.
Time for drastic action.
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The EU’s biggest economy is on its uppers. Turning it around may involve additional pain in the short term.
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Neuromorphic computers aim to one day replicate the amazing efficiency of the brain.
Defiant: Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, at the OSCE ministers’ meeting in North Macedonia on November 30.
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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe appears to be on its last legs.