Óscar Gutiérrez Garrido

A year-and-a-half after the Russian invasion began, Ukrainians are striving to fix the damage with a joint response from Kyiv, local governments, civil society, international donors and NGOs

Almost 18 months after the start of the war, a humanitarian corridor between the Russian city of Belgorod and Sumi in northeastern Ukraine opens a window of opportunity for trapped citizens

The city of Lviv has launched an innovative idea to welcome pregnant women or women with young children fleeing the east of the country. The objective is to keep them away from violence in their first months of motherhood

Under Ukraine’s martial law, men aged 18-60 who are eligible for military service must stay at home, but many are leaving before reaching that age

Most of Moscow’s shells, drones, vehicles and artillery rely on electronic components from foreign companies. The involvement of intermediaries and a lack of export controls allow such trade to happen

The Center for Civil Liberties has documented 4,000 people arrested during the invasion, a number the Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, puts as high as 20,000

Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative puts the Ukrainian agricultural sector on the ropes. The crops are piling up in the silos that Moscow bombs, while the price of transporting goods by land has multiplied

The capital of western Ukraine, a short distance from NATO territory, is still reeling from the July 6 air strike, which killed 10 people and wounded 48

The end of the rebellion has raised questions about what will happen to the mercenary group, which acts as the Kremlin’s unofficial armed wing in countries such as Mali and the Central African Republic

Museums such as the National Gallery and the Metropolitan have agreed to retitle works described in their catalogs as Russian amid an offensive against the Russification of Ukrainian history

The U.S. historian of Palestinian descent, who is an expert on the Middle East, believes the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have lost ‘credibility’ in the occupied territories and are no longer ‘engaged’ in the resistance movement

The U.S., China, Russia and the EU are all seeking to strengthen ties on the continent as changes in the international order and new alliances emerge over the war in Ukraine

Brussels and Washington state that the Wagner Group operates in the African country through shell companies and is involved in the exploitation and smuggling of gold

The Russian mercenary organization has turned the impoverished Central African Republic into a successful center of economic and military influence for Moscow

Russia’s suspension of its arms control treaty with the US augurs a new period of military deterrence, arms races and instability

International teams are being deployed in the hardest-hit areas of the country but face delays in reaching survivors due to the scale of destruction and fuel shortages

A leak of confidential documents has revealed the scale of the prison system against the Uyghur Muslim minority

With youth unemployment rates through the roof, particularly in the south, many educated young people are choosing unpaid work over a salaried position in a job they don’t like

Innovative villages like this one on the Swedish island of Gotland are leading by example in the effort to repopulate rural areas in a sustainable way. There are sister communities in several parts of Spain

In Madrid, Rebeca Bitrus recounts the harrowing ordeal she suffered at the hands of terrorist group

Police were monitoring chat between Dutch national and alleged radical in wake of Catalonia attacks

Spanish journalist was held prisoner in Libya

Law professor Elvira Méndez is the author of 'The Vikings' Revolution'