Matilda Bee was born in Australia in November 2015. Her family had left Odesa in Ukraine for a peaceful life in the new world. They were right to do so. On December 14, 2025, the day Sydney’s eastern ...

It was a special Christmas in 1991. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. Then on Dec. 25, 1991, the Soviet Union’s bloody hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered for the last time from the roof of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India (December 4 and 5) for the India-Russia Annual Summit had sparked a great deal of interest across the world, apart from India itself, though for ...

It even bears a stone gargoyle fashioned in the image of former premier Jeff Kennett (based on a John Spooner cartoon). The other is decidedly lower-key and is nestled in a side street in North ...

The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense budgetry. The point of the game is not so much to lay out actual fiscal allocations as to demonstrate to outsiders the latest Kremlin ...

Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There was no plan B, they said. Until there had to be one. At a little after 9pm on Thursday, the EU’s 27 leaders ...

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