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From Queen Elizabeth to Coolio, the celebrities and public figures who left us in 2022

From Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II to France’s iconic fashion designer Thierry Mugler and the Soviet Union’s last leader Mikhail Gorbachev, many notable public figures left us in 2022. FRANCE 24 takes a look back at the lives and legacies behind some of the year’s most high-profile deaths.

France 24

The 11 biggest planning decisions for Bristol in 2022

Many schemes have been controversial

Bristol Post

NATO and the War in Ukraine

The end of the cold war in 1991 brought along questions as regards NATO’s future. It has been more than 30 years and NATO’s ability to adopt itself to “the most complex security environment since the end of the Cold War” has preserved it as the strongest military alliance able…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Kissinger Calls for a Negotiated Peace in Ukraine, Kyiv Dismisses His Proposal

Veteran US diplomat Henry Kissinger said the time is approaching for a negotiated peace in Ukraine to reduce the risk of another devastating world war, but the Kyiv government dismissed his comments as amounting to "appeasing the aggressor" and said there could be no deal involving ceding territory. Kissinger, 99,…

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How Cold War secrecy helped fuel the latest fusion energy breakthrough

The NIF is a relic of Cold War nuclear tests and paranoia.

Inverse

Germany’s Unlearned Lessons

Berlin must reduce its dependence not just on Russia but on China, too.

Foreign Affairs

Nicolas Rothwell wins the Prime Minister's Literary Award for his novel Red Heaven

Nicolas Rothwell has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction, beating out strong contenders in Hannah Kent and Tony Birch.

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Japan and the Netherlands just picked sides in the U.S.-China cold war over chips. Here’s what they chose

The two American allies are signing on to the U.S. offensive against China’s flagging chip industry.

Fortune

Griner case latest in string of high-profile prisoner swaps

Delicate negotiations between the United States and Russia led to basketball star Brittney Griner’s return in exchange for notorious arms dealer once nicknamed “the Merchant of Death.”

The Independent UK

The CIA and the new cold war: what history tells us about its influence today – podcast

This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast tells the inside story of the CIA v Russia – from cold war conspiracy to “black” propaganda in Ukraine.

The Conversation

After nearly 66 years and thanks to DNA advances, Philly's 'Boy in the Box' has a name: Joseph

PHILADELPHIA — Haunting images of the child victim appeared in liquor stores, and were slipped into Philadelphia Gas Works bills. They spoke to a front-page crime so odious that it elbowed aside news accounts of the Cold War and the intensifying international tensions.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

'ITV's A Spy Among Friends so good it should be savoured and not binged'

The small screen spectacle of Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce and Anna Maxwell Martin in ITV's A Spy Among Friends should be savoured and not devoured, says Ian Hyland

Daily Mirror

Extreme times: polarised politics and what we can learn from the past

Compelling new ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends explores the real-life private and public fallout that ensues when MI6 agent Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) discovers his decades-long colleague and friend Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) is a communist double-agent, radicalised at university and recruited by the KGB to spill top-level secrets.…

The Independent UK

From dead drops to laser-spying: tradecraft through the decades

New ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends explores the incredible story of two real-life MI6 spies – Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) and Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) – whose decades-long friendship fell apart when Philby was revealed to be a treacherous double agent, spilling secrets to the KGB. Here historian Guy…

The Independent UK

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The Conversation

Mikhail Gorbachev wanted to save communism, but he buried it instead

The death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, under whose leadership the communist bloc was brought to an end, was met in the west with tributes and personal reminiscences by leaders who had met him and enjoyed his company. This reverence wasn’t matched in Russia or…

The Independent UK

Germany’s Scholz warns against new Cold War as Russia says 9 killed in Luhansk shelling

German Chancellor calls for the world to unify

Asharq Al-Awsat

Germany’s Scholz: We Must Avoid Dividing World into Cold War-Style Blocs

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned against creating a new Cold War by dividing the world into blocs and called for every effort to be made to build new partnerships, writing in an opinion piece for Foreign Affairs magazine published online on Monday. The West must stand up for democratic values…

Reuters

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Wales Online

MI5 error reveals Churchill was in on 'Valkyrie' plot to kill Hitler

Top secret wartime files mistakenly placed on the internet during the pandemic covered the attempt by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to blow up Nazi dictator

Daily Mirror

MI5 file 'bungle' during Covid revealed Churchill in on 'Valkyrie' plot to kill Hitler

Spooks dumped piles of top secret wartime files on the internet during pandemic lockdowns covering the attempt by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to blow up the dictator

The Canberra Times

Turning 40 is a chance to grow, as the National Gallery of Australia now knows

A spectacular national art gallery was always a key piece of the Canberra puzzle.

The Independent UK

European security org faces existential crisis at meeting

A security organization born in the Cold War to maintain peace in Europe has ended a high-level meeting without a final resolution

Asharq Al-Awsat

US to Unveil High-tech B-21 Stealth Bomber

The US Air Force on Friday will unveil its new B-21 Raider, a high-tech stealth bomber that can carry nuclear and conventional weapons and is designed to be able to fly without a crew on board. The B-21 -- which is on track to cost nearly $700 million per plane…

Daily Record

Haunting photos show remains of historic street hidden behind underground nightclub

Developers built around East George Street rather than ripping it up.

Reuters

Russia accuses West of undermining OSCE security body

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday big problems had accumulated in the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, accusing the West of spurning the chance to make the OSCE a real bridge with Russia after the Cold War.

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