Getty ImagesDespite being the world’s most sanctioned country, Russia has continued to use its vast energy wealth to bankroll its war in Ukraine.
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How Trump’s ‘secondary tariffs’ on Russia could hit global economy
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Despite Trump’s peace calls, Russian attacks on Ukraine double since inauguration
Matt Murphy & Ned DaviesBBC Verify
ReutersRussia has more than doubled the number of drones and missiles fired towards Ukraine since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, a BBC Verify analysis has found, despite his calls…
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Stay or go? Under Trump, dreams fade for Chinese who trekked to US
Shawn YuanGlobal China Unit, BBC World Service
Reporting fromCalifornia, US
BBCPan, a man in his fifties from China, now works at a Chinese restaurant in Barstow, California, after having come to the US by way of Latin America two years ago When Pan…
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Taiwanese TV show imagines Chinese invasion and stokes debate
Tessa WongBBC News, Asia Digital Reporter
Watch: Taiwanese TV show explores Chinese invasion scenario A Chinese fighter jet plane crashes in the waters off Taiwan’s coast, prompting Chinese warships to blockade the island for a “search and rescue”.
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'Hiroshima survivor stories were painful to draw'
Hiroshima students have spent weeks visualising the stories of survivors from the atomic bomb and turning them into art.
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Rescuers in Norway search for missing US journalist Alec Luhn
Rescue crews are searching for US climate journalist Alec Luhn, who vanished while hiking on a glacier in Folgefonna National Park in southwestern Norway.
Luhn, who has worked for multiple news outlets including the BBC, departed for his hike from…
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Romania’s first democratic leader with a divisive legacy
Mircea BarbuBBC News in Bucharest
Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty ImagesIliescu at Romania’s presidential palace in 1993, during his first of three terms in office Ion Iliescu, a figure whose name is intertwined with the tumultuous birth of…
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A Texas showdown could reshape Congress
Anthony ZurcherNorth America correspondent
Watch: Texas Speaker plans civil arrest warrants against absent Democrats Dozens of Texas Democrats have secretly left the state in a dramatic effort to stop Republicans from holding a vote that could…
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Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record
Getty ImagesAustralia’s Great Barrier Reef Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the largest annual decline in coral cover since records began nearly 40 years ago, according to a new report.
Northern and southern branches of the sprawling…
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Hezbollah leader rejects disarmament, urges prioritizing Israeli aggression
Hezbollah has once again rejected calls for the Lebanese resistance to disarm, urging the government to prioritize confronting decades-long Israeli aggression as the root cause of Lebanon’s problems.
Speaking during…
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