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Pope Francis spent 12 years at the helm of the Catholic Church

Swift return to major hostilities and violations of truce appear to bode ill for efforts to secure long-term ceasefire.

Russian military confirms ‘Easter truce’ is over and fighting has begun again as Ukrainian says Moscow launched 96 drones and three missiles overnight

Regions in eastern Ukraine were under air raid alerts starting minutes after midnight on Monday, with the alerts gradually extending west

These are the key events on day 1,152 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The EU, the world’s biggest single market, can reposition itself and become less reliant on exporting goods to the US and China, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre

Ukraine’s leaders and the Russian President also paid tribute to Pope Francis who has died aged 88

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Russia of creating a false appearance of honouring an Easter ceasefire, adding that Moscow continued to target Ukrainian cities after Putin announced the unilateral temporary truce.

Russia violated Putin’s self-declared truce thousands of times, says Ukrainian president, as air raids resume on Easter Monday. What we know on day 1,153

Hegseth often refers to Rauchet as his ‘rock’ and recently raised eyebrows when he brought her along to two meetings with foreign military officials

Sofi Oksanen has a penchant for difficult subjects. The Finnish-Estonian author established her international reputation with her 2008 novel Purge, which examined sexual violence against women and legacies of the Soviet regime in Estonia. The subjugation of women as part of the complex history of Eastern Europe has been a…