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Captors 'sweet' say freed nuns

Objects that defined the Great War

Impossible choices for residents in Crimea

With a handful of houses, a couple of shops and some crumbling Kruschev-era flats, the village of Lyubovnets, near the northern side of Sevastopol's bay, is not much to look at.

What Syria would look like here

A disturbing video put out by Save The Children has shown what Syria's civil war and refugee crisis would look like if it was set in the West.

WWII mines found in Hauraki Gulf

Four World War II mines have been discovered on the seabed during a Navy exercise in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf this week.

The colonel who defied the invaders

A former fighter pilot whose bold march against the Russian soldiers occupying his airbase was one of the most stunning acts of resistance in this phoney war.

Plunging stockmarket, diving rubble may bring Russian bear to heel

Unable to intervene militarily and with no direct economic levers to pull, the West believes it is successfully pressing Russia in the Ukraine crisis.

My people are ready to fight

An Auckland woman born in Ukraine says residents in her home country are ready to take up arms against Russian occupiers.

Key's Syria security details may be smokescreen - Labour

Kiwi fighters 'misinformed', says Syrian

Kiwis who travel to Syria to fight with rebel forces against the Assad regime are being misinformed by recruiters over social media, a Syrian living in Auckland says.

We'll watch returning fighters, says Key

Prime Minister says Kiwis returning from Syria deemed to have been `radicalised' will be monitored.

Civilians die despite truce

Aid workers braved mortar and small arms fire to evacuate Syrian civilians from a besieged area of the city of Homs.

Kiwis fighting in Syria - PM

John Key says there are New Zealanders fighting in anti-government forces in Syria, while others have been blocked from going there by having their passports cancelled.

Hungary's Jews: Holocaust 'whitewash'

It's Hungary's Holocaust memorial year - but why are Jewish groups in the country intending to boycott all state-organised events?

China, Russia set pace in spending

Soaring defence budgets in China and Russia mean that global military spending is growing for the first time in five years, according to forecasts.

Syrian group not linked to us: al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda has disavowed its offshoot in Syria, seeking to distance itself from a group too extreme even for the organisation founded by Osama bin Laden.