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Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed meets Tigray region leaders for first time since peace deal
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed addresses a Parliament session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on November 15, 2022. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi / AFP) (Photo by AMANUEL SILESHI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Putin evokes Stalingrad to predict victory in Ukraine
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The West needs to take a ‘Big Bang’ approach to helping Ukraine win
Konrad Yakabuski
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Russia hits civilian targets anew, EU officials visit Kyiv
A mechanical excavator operates on a building destroyed by a rocket strike in Kramatorsk on February 2, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. - At least three people were killed on February 2, 2023 and 20 wounded when a Russian rocket struck a residential building in the centre of Kramatorsk, located in Ukraine's eastern industrial region of Donetsk. (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Drone footage shows damage after strike on Kramatorsk, Ukraine
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Putin evokes Stalingrad to predict victory in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a commemoration, inside the memorial at the monument to Motherland, marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the battle of Stalingrad, in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, once known as Stalingrad, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. The battle of Stalingrad turned the tide of World War II and is regarded as the bloodiest battle in history, with the death toll for soldiers and civilians estimated at about 2 million. (Dmitry Lobakin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Fighting erupts in eastern Congo as Pope condemns ‘murderous’ exploitation
Pope Francis attends a meeting with representatives from charities, during his apostolic journey, at the Apostolic Nunciature in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
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Pope tells Congolese to 'embrace mercy' at huge Mass
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Boxer Wladimir Klitschko joins fight against IOC plans to let some Russians compete at 2024 Olympics
FILE - Former heavyweight boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko leaves after a meeting with German Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck in Berlin, March 31, 2022. Olympic gold medalist Wladimir Klitschko has joined Ukraine’s fight against IOC plans to let some Russians compete at the 2024 Paris Summer Games, it was announced Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. The former heavyweight world champion has suggested in a video message sports leaders will be accomplices to the war if athletes from Russia and its military ally Belarus can compete at the next Olympics. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)
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Russian shelling kills five in tough eastern Ukraine combat
The debris of a residential building, partially destroyed after a missile strike on Kharkiv on January 30, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images)
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To rebuild Ukraine, the world needs to help clear the land from mines
Erin Hunt
music
Barrett Strong, Motown artist known for ‘Money,’ dies at 81
FILE - Motown's Barrett Strong arrives at the induction ceremony for 35th annual National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York on June 10, 2004. Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated with Norman Whitfield on such classics as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “War” and “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” has died. He was 81. His death was announced Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023, by the Motown Museum. (AP Photos/Louis Lanzano, File)
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NATO’s chief urges South Korea to step up military support for Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea January 29, 2023. Kim Min-Hee/Pool via Reuters
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Zelensky decries neutrality in sports at time of war
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures as he speaks during a joint press conference with his Finnish counterpart following their talks in Kyiv, on January 24, 2023, amid Russia's military invasion on Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Talks underway with Western allies for missiles, planes, says Ukrainian presidential aide
Local resident Serhii stands next to his car destroyed by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine January 28, 2023. REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Ukrainian volunteer unit braves minefields to bring back remains of the dead
Oleksiy Yukov with his squad in the fields of Kharkiv oblast. Dovhenke, Ukraine. 20 Jan 2023 Anton Skyba The Globe and Mail
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Auschwitz anniversary in southern Poland marked as peace again shattered by war
OSWIECIM, POLAND - JANUARY 27: Auschwitz survivors take part in a collective pray at the Ruins of gas chamber and crematorium IV in the former Nazi-German concentration and extermination camp KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau during the 78th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation on January 27, 2023 in Oswiecim, Poland. International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January, is observed on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images)
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On the 50th anniversary of the war’s end, the wounds of Vietnam still haven’t healed
David Shribman
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Russia intensifies attacks as Ukraine seeks more weapons
Local woman with kids walks next to a residential house damaged by a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Hlevakha, outside Kyiv, Ukraine January 26, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Russia pounds Kyiv with deadly missiles
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Canada donating four Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine
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IOC seeks pathway to let Russians compete at Paris Olympics
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U.S. to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine
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Stock market returns over the next 30 years will be nothing to write home about
George Athanassakos
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In Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar, once-distant sounds of war get louder
A nurse make an infusion to Chasiv Yar resident in makeshift hospital in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine. 22 Jan 2022 Anton Skyba The Globe and Mail
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Ukraine 'paying in lives' as tank debate drags on
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Western allies seek to break stalemate with Germany over Leopard tanks for Ukraine
BAKHMUT, UKRAINE - JANUARY 19: Soldiers prepare to head back to the front outside of the heavily damaged city of Bakhmut, which has become one of the most intense battles in the nearly year long war with Russia on January 19, 2023 in Bakhmut, Ukraine. The comfort centers offer besieged residents food, coffee and tea, warmth and charging areas. Russia has stepped up its offensive in the Donetsk region in the new year, with the region's Kyiv-appointed governor accusing Russia of using scorched-earth tactics. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
opinion
Germany has a heavy responsibility to send its tanks to Ukraine
Timothy Garton Ash
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Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev warns NATO of nuclear war if Russia is defeated in Ukraine
FILE PHOTO: Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev gives an interview at the Gorki state residence outside Moscow, Russia on January 25, 2022. Picture taken January 25, 2022. Sputnik/Yulia Zyryanova/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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Ukraine’s Interior Minister, at least one child among those killed in helicopter crash that set kindergarten on fire
BROVARY, UKRAINE - JANUARY 18: Firemen roll up hoses in front of debris as emergency service workers respond at the site of a helicopter crash on January 18, 2023 in Brovary, Ukraine. Eighteen people have been killed, including Ukraine's interior affairs minister Denys Monastyrsky along with eight other helicopter passengers, after they crashed near a nursery in a Kyiv suburb. (Photo by Ed Ram/Getty Images)
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Western Canada: Volunteer combat medic from Saskatchewan killed in Ukraine
Ukrainian servicemen fire an anti-aircraft gun towards Russian positions on a frontline near the town of Bakhmut, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine January 15, 2023. REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak
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Ukrainian oligarchs struggle for influence as war effort forges ahead without them
A poster of the new exhibition called "United" demonstrated in Pinchuk Art Centre in Kyiv, Ukraine on January 17, 2023.
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Ukrainian women are pivotal to its military, but winning the right to fight was its own battle
A woman greets a Ukrainian soldier as local residents gather to celebrate the liberation of Kherson, on November 13, 2022, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. - Ukrainians in the liberated southern city of Kherson expressed a sense of relief on November 11, 2022, after months of Russian occupation. There were no scenes of jubilation on November 13, 2022, an AFP correspondent said, but many locals said they felt a great sense of relief after Kyiv had wrested back control of the city. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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A whistle, a watch and DNA identify Vancouver soldier 106 years after death in France
A statement from the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces says they've confirmed remains recovered in Vendin-le-Vieil, in northern France are those of Corporal Percy Howarth, who is believed to have died in the Battle of Hill 70 in 1917. The facade of the headquarters of the Department of National Defence is pictured in Ottawa, on April 3, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Ukraine military near Soledar 'holding position'
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Russia’s military shuffle shows Putin still in charge and doubling down on his invasion of Ukraine
A Ukrainian tank fires at Russian positions near Kreminna, Lugansk region, on January 12, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)