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Global Monopoly game: How a small state like Israel survives in ruthless geopolitics - opinion

When global politics is like playing Monopoly, empathy erodes, it's about survival by crushing the weak.

Service members take part in what Russian Defence Ministry says is the deployment of the Russian nuclear-capable hypersonic Oreshnik missile system in Belarus, at an unidetified location in this still image from video released December 30, 2025.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev and foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov attend a meeting with US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, December 2, 2025; illustrative.

Kremlin welcomes end to ‘direct threat’ label in US strategy, TASS reports

A Ukrainian serviceman of the National Police Special Purpose Battalion prepares to fire a howitzer towards Russian troops at a position in a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region, Ukraine November 20, 2025.

What are the regions Ukraine could lose under the US-backed plan? - explainer

A moat with horse remains was found.

Archaeologists uncover ancient Greek graffiti in Crimea


Loud explosions heard near Russian military airbase in Crimea

At least 12 explosions were heard from the direction of a Russian military air base in Crimea. Russian Defense Ministry reports of no casualties.

First parts of a Russian S-400 missile defense system are unloaded from a Russian plane at Murted Airport, known as Akinci Air Base, near Ankara, Turkey, July 12, 2019.

Ukraine drone strike hits Russia Black Sea fleet HQ 'spoiling Navy Day'

The accusation comes hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to oversee Navy Day celebrations in his hometown of St Petersburg.

 Russian warships leave a port during naval drills, which are staged by the Baltic Fleet forces of the Russian Navy, part of the military exercises Zapad-2021 opened by Russia and Belarus, in the Baltic Sea town of Baltiysk in Kaliningrad Region, Russia September 9, 2021

Two Israel Police officers injured in stabbing attack in Arab city

The man reportedly stabbed his partner before attacking police officers responding to reports of the crime.

  Israel Police officers at the scene of a stabbing in Baka al-Gharbiya

Putin removes Russian internet sensation from post, appoints to new job

Natalia Poklonskaya is departing her job at Rossotrudnichestvo to become Advisor to Russian Prosecutor General.

 Natalia Poklonskaya

Neither ‘Ukrainian’ nor ‘German' - just trying to help

Now, as a mother of two with a full-time job, I spend most of my spare time trying to help the country my family left when I was 12.

Ukrainian and German flag heart illustration.

Russia persecuting Ukrainian civil journalists in Crimea, official says

16 Ukrainian civilians who took up citizen journalism were jailed by Russia in order to "clean up the information field."

A photojournalist in a press vest [Illustrative]

Russia has been inciting against Ukrainians in Crimea for years -study

Researchers analyzed 11 Russian-language online publications that wrote about Crimea, including RIA, KP, Realia, Russian Spring and others, from December 2020 to the end of May 2021.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen on a screen broadcasting Russian TV news programs at a humanitarian aid distribution point during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine May 30, 2022.

Ukraine-Russia War: Russia readies 3rd line of defense in south Ukraine

Russia has reportedly brought 50-year-old T-62 tanks out of storage for battlefield usage.

 Service members of pro-Russian troops drive a tank along a street past a destroyed residential building during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the town of Popasna in the Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine May 26, 2022.

Ukraine-Russia War: Sea of Azov now an inland Russian sea - Crimean speaker

With Russian control in huge swaths of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Mariupol, regions the Sea of Azov may soon be an inland Russian sea - if they can consolidate power.

 The Sea of Azov (Illustrative).

Putin's Victory Day speech was just empty words

"I’m 78 years old and I didn’t believe that things would get so bad, that brothers would slaughter their own flesh and blood," a Ukrainian woman said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Victory Day parade in Moscow, May 2018