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The border with Ukraine is 250km away. But sometimes the front line feels much closer. This part of Russia, Lipetsk region, like many others, has been targeted by Ukrainian drones. Around Yelets the authorities have installed emergency shelters. I spot one at a bus stop, another in a park.

The death of the most-wanted Jalisco cartel chief sparks retaliatory violence in at least a dozen states in Mexico.

Cheryl Grimmer’s family have been petitioning police to consider the new evidence they say they’ve found.

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes – more commonly known as ‘El Mencho’ – is one of them. Hailing from humble rural roots in the western state of Michoacán, his rise to the top of one of the most feared and dangerous cartels in modern Mexico, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), was meteoric. And it was achieved […]

The announcement by the rubber-stamp party congress comes as little surprise.

More Indians in small towns are now shopping for affordable brands instead of unlabelled goods in the bazaars.

Jobs are available on the icy continent for chefs, plumbers, carpenters and even hairdressers.

“If this is a condition for ending the war, let’s do it. I said, ‘honestly, you constantly raise the issue of elections’. I told the partners, ‘you need to decide one thing: you want to get rid of me or you want to hold elections? If you want to hold elections, (even if you are […]

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho”, is head of one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels.

The remains of Italy’s patron saint have only been seen in public once before – for one day in 1978.