The Georgian men’s national team celebrate after winning their match against Portugal, setting themselves up for a last-16 tie against Spain.
Georgi Licovski / EPA
Georgia’s football team has surpassed expectations as political turmoil rumbles on at home.
EFE/Stringer
Gershkovich is the first foreign correspondent to be charged with spying since the end of the cold war.
Kim Jung Un and Vladimir Putin during their high profile meeting in North Korea in June 2024.
AP/Alamy
The Kim-Putin deal gives more power to Kim Jung Un and worries his neighbours.
朝鮮通信社/Kcna Via Kns/AP
Russia is increasingly trying to find common cause with the Global South, including countries that matter to the West, such as Vietnam.
People hold a traditional Belarusian flag with a portrait of presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya during a rally in Minsk, Belarus, in August 2020. She’s among 20 people being tried in absentia.
(AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Having silenced critics at home, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is now seeking to do so beyond the country’s borders.
EPA-EFE/Vladimir Smirnov/Sputnik/Kremlin pool
A selection of our coverage of the war in Ukraine from the past fortnight.
Putin and Kim meet on June 19 2024 in Pyongyang, North Korea.
AP/Alamy
North Korea and Russia have been allies for a long time. The relationship has its roots in the second world war and its aftermath.
EPA-EFE/Michael Buholzer/pool
Volodymyr Zelensky and his friends in the west are failing to get support from the rest of the world for their demand that Russia completely withdraw from Ukraine.
Sophie Mahdavi
An 82-metre column in the capital of imperial Russia commemorates Peter the Great’s victory in the Great Northern war and the establishment of the Russian empire.
A pro-Russia supporter with an adapted Soviet flag, demonstrates in Munich, Germany.
Zuma/Alamy
Europe’s far right parties are winning more backing in the polls, and will have increasing influence on policy over the Ukraine war.
TOMS KALNINS/EPA
While there may not be any major practical outcomes, the summit is a chance for Ukraine to press its case that any settlement of the war should be based on just principles.
EPA-EFE/Christophe Petit Tesson
The 2024 D-day commemorations sent a message of European unity but missed the opportunity to acknowledge Ukraine’s contribution to the defeat of Nazism.
hernandez jose maria/Alamy Stock Photo
A selection of our coverage of the war in Ukraine from the past fortnight.
Firefighters battle a blaze in a residential area of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city which has been under Russian bombardment since the war began.
EPA-EFE/Sergey Kozlov
Washington’s policy shift will change the dynamics of the battle for Ukraine’s second city.
Navy ships from Nato members on an exercise in the Baltic Sea in 2020.
US Navy/Alamy
A rogue document apparently showing Russian intention to expand its territory in the Baltic region surfaced in the past few days.
EPA-EFE/Alexander Ryumin/Sputnik/Kremlin pool
A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Kharkiv has come under almost daily aerial attack since the full-scale war began two years ago.
EPA-EFE/Sergey Kozlov
Ferocity of Moscow’s offensive against Ukraine’s second city appears to be prompting a rethink among Ukraine’s western allies.
Vladimir Putin.
AP/Alamy
Putin is busy consolidating his alliances while the west keeps dithering.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan.
Mauricio Duenas Castaneda / EPA
The ICC is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders that are suspected of committing war crimes in Gaza.
The Soviet Union’s leading newspaper only mentioned D-Day in small print at the very top of its front page on June 7, 1944.
Pravda
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said D-Day ‘was not a game changer’ in World War II – and Soviet media delivered that message starting the day after the invasion.