Federica Marsi

Rus­sia-Ukraine news from March 7: Kyiv says Russ­ian shelling is pre­vent­ing evac­u­a­tion of civil­ians and de­liv­ery of aid.

Ukraine news from Feb­ru­ary 14: Pen­ta­gon says Putin is adding more mil­i­tary force and ca­pa­bil­i­ty near Ukraine’s bor­ders.

Wet­lands bring health, food and wa­ter se­cu­ri­ty ben­e­fits to four bil­lion peo­ple glob­al­ly – but many are un­der threat.

Pres­i­dent Ka­bore was de­posed amid anger over vi­o­lence, but an­a­lysts say the mil­i­tary coup could un­leash more in­se­cu­ri­ty.

France and the UK re­port record na­tion­al highs of new coro­n­avirus cas­es as Omi­cron vari­ant con­tin­ues to spread.

Res­i­dents and civ­il so­ci­ety groups have been wag­ing a le­gal bat­tle against a sug­ar­cane de­vel­op­ment project.

Tunisian mi­grants and asy­lum seek­ers be­ing held on boats off the coast of Italy have drowned or at­tempt­ed sui­cide.

Ten­sion grips res­i­dents of Lebanon’s cap­i­tal amid fears of es­ca­la­tion in re­gion­al di­vide be­tween Sau­di Ara­bia and Iran.

The lat­est play by Zeina Dac­cache aims to push the gov­ern­ment to re­form the law for men­tal­ly ill pris­on­ers.