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By the time the Russians invaded, 43-year-old Mufti Said Ismahilov - one of the Muslim spiritual leaders of Ukraine - had already resolved that he would step aside from his religious duties to fight for his country. At the end of last year, as warnings of an imminent attack grew…

LONDON: Elena Rybakina smiled, but only just. A perfunctory fist pump and a brief wave to the stands signalled her Wimbledon triumph. The 23-year-old’s maiden Grand Slam victory.

Kyiv urges residents in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia to evacuate as it prepares for ‘massive fight’

Dean Sewell’s boxes of black and white film capturing Moscow in the mid-1990s had laid untouched for a quarter of a century

Rybakina was born and raised in Moscow but switched to represent Kazakhstan four years ago

Rybakina made history in SW19 representing Kazakhstan but her background meant her victory was controversial.

The rebranded Russian chain blamed on a 'shortage' of the type of potatoes used forcing diners to opt for a different side accompaniment to their main dish of burgers and nuggets

Boris Johnson is now the head of a Potemkin government – a false and hollow structure – that leaves it vulnerable in uncertain times, world affairs editor Kim Sengupta writes

Can “small wars” in the near or immediate future shake the stalemate in Syria? What are the priorities of acting states in the Syrian file? Where do the concerns of Syrians lie within their war-torn country and the three micro-states existing there? How are Syrians dealing with the “big battles”…

Russia on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have extended cross-border aid from Turkey to some four million people in opposition-controlled northwest Syria by one year without Damascus's backing. Western powers then voted down a competing resolution put forward by Moscow that proposed extending approval by just…

Ukraine news from July 9: Russians shelling Ukraine’s east, despite reports of ‘operational pause’, governor says.