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‘The world has lost a towering leader’: Global tributes paid to Mikhail Gorbachev

Mr Gorbachev’s death at the age of 91 inspired an outpouring of tributes from world leaders

The Independent UK

It's 50 years since chess magician Bobby Fischer dazzled and baffled the world to emerge as champion

For better and for worse, Bobby Fischer's brilliant play and off-board antics were a catalyst for chess to achieve mainstream attention.

ABC News

A look at memorable chess-themed movies and TV shows over the years

The game fulfils a range of narrative purposes — from being a stand-in for warfare and statecraft to symbolising ambition, decadence, upward mobility, and so on

The Hindu

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Paul Sorvino played more than a Mafia don. Here’s a look at some of his best-known roles

Paul Sorvino could play more than a mobster, even though mafioso roles became standards in his prolific career.

Los Angeles Times

Paul Sorvino’s roles ran from political ideologue to comic-strip mobster and everything in-between

Paul Sorvino was known for his tough-guy roles, whether playing a grizzled cop or a hardened mafioso. He portrayed everything from a comic-strip mobster in “Dick Tracy” to an ideologue in “Reds,” to a detective, to an international political figure. He was also a trained operatic tenor.

Tribune News Service

United States: the end of an illusion of omnipotence

“I do not accept second place for the United States of America.” That simple statement, delivered to rousing effect by Barack Obama in his first State of the Union, in January 2010, managed to summarize the current American strategic horizon in a single sentence.

The Conversation

Kissinger warns Biden against endless confrontation with china

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said geopolitics today requires “Nixonian flexibility” to help defuse conflicts between the U.S. and China as well as between Russia and the rest of Europe.

Tribune News Service

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Biden once wanted to make Saudi Arabia a 'pariah' – so why is he playing nice with the kingdom's repressive rulers now?

Even before setting foot in the Middle East for his first visit to the region as president, Joe Biden felt compelled to defend a portion of the trip. “I know that there are many who disagree with my decision to travel to Saudi Arabia,” Biden acknowledged in an op-ed for…

The Conversation

Why the world needs peace in Ukraine

The world cannot afford the continuation of this war, and India is in a unique position to help

The Hindu

It’s not only Britain. The west needs honest, trustworthy leaders to deter autocrats

A showdown is looming with Russia and China, but public confidence and belief in democratic institutions is waning, says Observer columnist Simon Tisdall

The Guardian - UK

The Cold War on a Chessboard 50 Years Ago

Fifty years ago, the Cold War was transposed to a chessboard as Bobby Fischer of the United States took on defending world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in a thrilling East-West clash dubbed the "match of the century". Some 50 million TV viewers tuned into the two-month-long tussle…

Asharq Al-Awsat

A century of war, fascism and death

Billionaires won't give up on corporate rule. The angry masses embrace fascist demagogues. This won't end well

Salon

Henry Kissinger's new book offers 6 lessons for global leaders

Global leaders confront unprecedented crises — amid growing pessimism about their ability to manage these disruptions.

Axios

Pacifism is the wrong response to the war in Ukraine

The least we owe Ukraine is full support, and to do this we need a stronger Nato

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Leadership by Henry Kissinger review – lessons in diplomacy from a master of the dark arts

In this analysis of six national leaders, the grand old man of US politics offers a broad-brush history of international statecraft but ignores the death and destruction that sometimes resulted

Financial Times

Hillary Clinton: ‘We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy’

The former presidential candidate on negotiating with Putin, the ‘prophet’ Margaret Atwood — and why the Democrats need to rein in the radical left

Radio France Internationale

Is the war in Ukraine creating a new world order?

Cold War alliances are being strengthened while the classic foes of the "free West" are forging stronger links at a moment when France is exiting the helm of the EU.

Foreign Affairs

No Peace at Any Price in Ukraine

It’s Too Soon for a Lasting Diplomatic Settlement

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The Guardian - US

Bilderberg reconvenes in person after two-year pandemic gap

The Washington conference, a high-level council of war, will be headlined by Jens Stoltenberg, Nato’s secretary general

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine is desperate for peace, but we won’t sign up to a bogus Russian deal

Kissinger is wrong: urrendering territory would have terrible consequences for the world, says the former Ukrainian defence minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk

Evening Standard

The West has a month to decide whether to save Ukraine from Vladimir Putin

Britain and its Nato partners, the USA included, have less than a month to decide on how deeply they are prepared to commit to saving Ukraine as a viable independent nation. Ukraine’s forces are now locked in a battle for survival in the Luhansk oblast of the Donbas region, which…

Tribune News Service

Russian victories in eastern Ukraine spark debate over course of war

Russian troops are making steady progress in Ukraine’s east on the back of more-concentrated artillery and air power, now controlling almost all of the Luhansk region and threatening to encircle thousands of Ukraine’s most experienced troops.

Zenger

Mighty 57th Brigade Destroy Two Russian Tanks

This footage shows two tank wrecks burning on an unpaved road after encountering members of Ukraine’s 57th Motorized Brigade.

Zenger

Ukrainians Wipe Out Russian Base Hidden In Trees

Russia invaded Ukraine in what Putin initially called a "special military operation" to "demilitarize and denazify" Ukraine.

Zenger

Russia Shows Off Fearsome Rocket Launcher In Video Montage

Zenger News obtained the video montage from the Ministry of Defense (MoD) of the Russian Federation on Wednesday, May 25.

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