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The view from the ground.
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Marine Le Pen, the candidate for the far-right National Rally (then known as the National Front) in France's presidential election, gestures as she gives a speech during a campaign meeting. Le Pen’s Late Surge Could Be Another French Revolution
Emmanuel Macron was meant to cruise to victory. For the first time, the French far right has a real chance to win.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gives a speech marking Hungary's Revolution and Independence Day on March 15, 2022 in front of the parliament building of Budapest. The Secrets to Viktor Orban’s Success
Hungary’s prime minister will likely win a fourth consecutive election with an original political formula.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban takes part in a press conference during the Visegrad summit at the Centre for the Meetings of Cultures in Lublin, Poland, on Sept. 11, 2020. Hungary’s Orban Stronger at Home, Weaker Abroad Ahead of Elections
Hopes have faded for Hungary’s united opposition, but Budapest’s neutrality on Russia’s war in Ukraine has cost Orban in Europe.
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Ukrainian children who fled the Russian invasion look at a phone in a shelter organized in an exhibition center in Chisinau, Moldova. Moldovans Worry Putin Could Come for Them Next
The small country is welcoming refugees—and watching Russia.
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A mother in a black coat holds her child's hand walking through a crowd. The child is wearing a light blue coat. Fleeing Ukraine’s Last Safe Haven
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have fled to Lviv since the war began. But Russian attacks are getting closer.
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Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili Georgia Threatens to Sue Its Own President Over Her Support for Ukraine
Georgia’s ruling party, if not its populace, wants to appease the Kremlin. Georgia’s president does not.
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Street musicians in Lviv, Ukraine Lviv Becomes the Center of Ukraine’s Resistance
With the east in flames, the western Ukrainian city houses refugees, aid workers, and diplomats seeking to turn the tide of war.
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Evacuees from Mariupol, Ukraine, at a shopping center on the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia ‘The World Must Know What Happened to Us’
After weeks of siege by the Russians, some in Mariupol are finally escaping the bombs, the burning buildings, and the bodies.
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Women and children from war-torn Ukraine, including a mother carrying an infant, arrive in Poland at the Medyka border crossing on March 4, 2022 near Medyka, Poland. Ukraine’s Mothers Are the Heart of the War
Women separated from their husbands have become a symbol of the country’s moral standing.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban Hungary’s Orban Pivots Away From Putin as Elections Loom
For 12 years, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has carried water for Putin. Now, he’s wavering.
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Ukrainian army officer Yaroslav Chepurniy Russia’s Road to Odesa Runs Through Mykolaiv
War is intensifying along the Black Sea coast, with one key city standing in the invaders’ way.
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Belarusian men who joined the Ukrainian territorial defense are in Odesa, Ukraine. Odesa’s Defense Stiffened by Belarusian Volunteers
For hundreds who fled Minsk’s oppression, Ukraine’s fight has become theirs.
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Gerry Rutterman and his daughter Kensey walk through floodwaters to return to their family home in Sydney on March 9. The ‘Rain Bomb’ That Could Shape the Australian Election
Devastating floods have yet again revealed the country is at the sharp end of climate change.
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Kharkiv residents sleep on the ground in the Kharkiv metro station on March 10. Life Underground in Bomb-Shattered Kharkiv
Two weeks into the war, residents of Ukraine’s second-largest city are still surviving in squalid shelters.
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Volunteers wait for refugees from the Ukraine arriving at the main train station on March 1, 2022 in Berlin. Europe Is Ready for All of Ukraine’s Refugees
The European Union is preparing to meet the burden of a historic refugee crisis.
