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Igor Strelkov’s Angry Patriots Club (КРП) has published a list of questions about Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine. Most of their questions are highly pertinent; some of them are a bit superfluous; a few—in your correspondent’s humble opinion—are misguided and a bit silly. But

Archeologists in Livorno, Italy discovered 175 silver Roman denarius coins, nearly all of which were in good condition.

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. You will go nowhere and be happy The age of “cheap flights” is over, Bloomberg reported this week. They

A thousand-year-old Viking hoard consisting of coins and jewellery was reportedly found by a girl armed with a metal detector.

Beijing Academy of Military Sciences researcher Zhao Xun published an article in Chinese Communist Party media on Monday warning that China’s current model of technology and weapons development is “unsustainable” due to Western sanctions, so China must become more self-reliant by funding more research and reducing bureaucratic red tape.

Published simultaneously in Propaganda in Focus, UK Column and OffGuardian On 7 April 2018 reports emerged from a suburb of Damascus, Douma, claiming that a chemical weapons attack had occurred. Images of dead women and children inside an apartment building were circulated over the internet along with hospital scenes showing

Australia is the 117th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration, an intergovernmental political commitment to reduce the likelihood that students, teachers, and schools are targeted for attack during armed conflict. Schools should be places of study and safety for children. If armed forces use schools as military bases, firing

Canada and Germany have now been described as legitimate targets for military attacks.

The Biden administration released its nearly $7 trillion 2024 budget request to Congress on Thursday, which included $886 billion for defense — a 3.2 percent boost from the prior year’s defense budget. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) acknowledged that the request is “among the largest in