Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Ukraine: what happens next in a world without framework?
The question is no longer what Tony Blair did, or what President Obama should do, but what are we all going to do?
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President Barack Obama says the United States believes Flight MH17 was shot down, killing 298 innocent people in an act he describes as “an outrage of unspeakable proportions”.
At least 77 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s Gaza offensive, Palestinian officials say – with a family of eight, including five children, the latest additions to the death toll.
The question is no longer what Tony Blair did, or what President Obama should do, but what are we all going to do?
More than 50 million people were forced to leave their homes last year due to war or persecution, the highest number since the second world war, says the UN refugee agency.
US President Barack Obama say he is “not ruling anything out” to help Iraq deal with the insurgent threat after days of violence as militants take over a swathe of the country.
Sheffield’s Doc/Fest captures the anger of a generation in a new, spontaneous mode of film-making.
Many Scots are undecided about the merits of a yes or no vote in the independence referendum. Matthew Moore speaks to four Scots who have switched allegiance.
Nigeria’s neighbouring countries are ready to launch a “total war on Boko Haram”, the terrorist group responsible for the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls, the president of Chad says.
Pro-Russian protesters respond to Kiev’s deadline to leave buildings by seizing more, as Foreign Secretary William Hague says there is “no real doubt” Russia is behind the unrest.
America and the European Union impose asset freezes and travel bans on officials from Russia and Ukraine following the referendum in Crimea.
With the eyes of the world on Ukraine, an escalated campaign of barrel bombings by the regime of Bashar al-Assad has led to the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children in Syria.
Crimea is seen in Whitehall as something President Putin is not going to be prised out of – it is up to him whether he chooses to annex it.
The first shots in Moscow’s occupation of Crimea were fired today as Russian troops confronted members of the Ukraine air force. And over the Atlantic, the war of words is heating up.
The US and EU failed to anticipate President Putin’s response to events in Ukraine. But as Andrew Wood writes, the west can benefit from the situation – provided it is firm and sticks together.
The UK has no intention of doing anything “muscular” to stop Russia taking Crimea, which is now considered as returned fully to the Russian sphere.