Ukraine war briefing: Thousands of Ukrainian convicts join fight against Russian forces ( www.theguardian.com )
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Patriotic poems published under invented name of Gennady Rakitin were embraced as examples of ‘Z poetry’
In a May 2000 essay published on his website, Hancock writes: “I have consistently argued that the Americas were inhabited in prehistoric times by a variety of ethnic groups – Negroid, Caucasoid and Mongoloid … Such ideas have caused deep offense to some American Indians, who have long claimed to be the only ‘native’...
The Norwegian government has called off a plan to sell the last privately owned piece of land on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard in order to prevent its acquisition by China....
General election coverage has been dominated by male voices, according to researchers from Loughborough University....
Regulator gives industry groups six months to come up with draft code, expected to include rules about age verification
European Commission objects to ‘pay or consent’ model for users of Facebook and Instagram
Al-Shifa’s Mohammed Abu Salmiya alleges Israel tortured him across seven months of detention without charge...
Voters in the UK and abroad have either not received their ballots or have been left with too little time to return them...
The Financial Times columnist asks why younger generations are no longer expected to be wealthier than their forebears. Plus: House of the Dragon takes off. Here’s what to watch this evening...
The loan was finalized in February after the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, suggested sending pandas to the San Diego zoo as “envoys of friendship” between China and the US....