Opinion

How could anyone believe that it is right to murder someone else to make a political point?

President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country for more than three decades, will run against several token challengers on January 26

After the crisis of October’s parliamentary elections, president Salome Zourabichvili has been the country’s most prominent voice of dissent

The deadly incident on December 7 has left Dutch law enforcement looking shockingly weak

Thousands of Syrians living in exile celebrated, including in neighbouring Turkey, which hosts more than 3.5 million refugees

The rapid speed at which the Adamello is melting shouldn’t come as a shock; the past two years have been unbearably hot in Italy

Trump’s threatened crackdown on immigration could drive more highly skilled workers towards Britain. The government must be ready to welcome them

The prime minister should be spared social media’s grief voyeurism as he mourns the loss of his brother

It’s not the first time the Slovak leader allowed himself to be used as a tool of Kremlin propaganda – it won’t be the last

A little humility from the Tories, a lot more help for Ukraine and a ban on BBC interview platitudes are all on my wishlist for the new year

The paper’s Sam Ashworth-Hayes thinks catastrophe is on the cards - but there are several factors he’s overlooked

Georgia’s new pro-Moscow president is determined to fight his own people – meanwhile, his pro-EU predecessor has left office and gone into the streets to join the protests

Deploying the monarchy – and even Nigel Farage – might go some way to protecting us from four years of madness

The pandemic changed the way people work and Artificial Intelligence is about to drive even more change. But the government isn’t keeping up – and that’s a big problem

Labour can only put its stumbling start behind it if it constructs a compelling narrative to match the one peddled by populists

The Tory leader has given her rival even more free publicity - but she's right to have picked this fight

A series of conflicts are spreading across the globe and becoming increasingly entwined. The next US president could make it all much worse

Colourful stories abound of how local vintners deceived and humiliated German troops in occupied France. But the truth is rather more complex

If you don’t someone else will tell it for you – and chances are you won’t like what you hear

With increased security at the well-known drug ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam, South American drug traffickers have moved operations to the north-west corner of the Iberian Peninsula

The Labour government risks holding back a sector with huge economic potential. Can the UK’s digital entrepreneurs flourish without help from No.10?

A Kyiv gallery has defied Russian missile attacks to stage a visceral but tender art competition for artists under 35

The city’s working class banlieues have produced superstars like Kylian Mbappé and Thierry Henry. Could they now take Paris Saint Germain to the next level?

This supposedly heart-warming yuletide classic is the story of a NIMBY preparing to impose a radical moral agenda on his selfish neighbours

The strategically important city of Pokrovsk is in Putin’s sights. The government should do everything it can to stop him - starting with donating surplus MoD equipment to Volodymyr Zelensky

A honeymoon on the continent changed everything for American artist Helen Frankenthaler, whose work is being celebrated in Florence and Bilbao this year

Britain has made up its mind on Europe. The PM must do the same, before it’s too late

The suspects in two acts of violence are united by limitless narcissism posing as just rebellion

A torrent of fake news has sprung up around the tragedy – but when the truth finally emerges, Germany’s far right voters probably won’t even hear it

The culture war argument over abortion helped Trump get back into the White House. Now Farage wants to use the same trick – can it work over here?