Who is Gerhard Schroeder, Putin’s pick for Ukraine peace talks mediation?
And will he be acceptable to Ukraine and the West?

And will he be acceptable to Ukraine and the West?









After three years of ethnic clashes, Manipur still remains on edge, with fears that the conflict could spiral further.

Tens of thousands of Afghans have been displaced by recent fighting along the Pakistan border, forced into tent camps.
The Israeli ‘Yellow Line’ in Lebanon raises fears that a temporary military zone could become a longer-term occupation.
Al Jazeera correspondents on the ground report that Israeli bulldozers are also continuing home demolitions.
Ukraine has penetrated Russian airspace with unprecedented numbers of drones, denying Russia windfall oil profits.
Life expectancy on the front line for Central Asian migrants forced to fight for Russia in Ukraine is just four months.
The decision comes months after Israel became the first country to recognise the territory, in a widely condemned move.
A bill laying out plans to return the Indian Ocean archipelago, home to the US-UK Diego Garcia base, has been paused.
KMT chief Cheng Li-wun, the party’s first leader to visit China in a decade, hopes to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Ukraine aims to drain Russia’s war chest with drone strikes on Pokrovsk and Ust-Luga oil facilities on the Baltic Sea.