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Firefighters gather on a destroyed roof in Wyryki, Poland, to inspect a damaged house after multiple Russian drones struck. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

What NATO could learn from Ukraine as it navigates Russian threats to European security

Throughout its war with Russia, Ukraine is providing lessons to the West on what’s required to win a modern-day war. Will European and other states heed those lessons?
Several fossils with possible cut marks from Grăunceanu, Romania. Briana Pobiner

Tiny cut marks on animal bone fossils reveal that human ancestors were in Romania 1.95 million years ago

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the date hominins started living in Europe by 200,000 years.
African residents in Ukraine wait at the platform inside Lviv railway station on Feb. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Ukraine: How citizenship and race play out in refugees’ movements in Europe

Ukraine’s history with the former Soviet Union and its current relationship with the European Union inform how refugees move across borders. While race plays a role, citizenship is also an important factor.
Over there, over there (again). Omar Marques/Getty Images

The US military presence in Europe has been declining for 30 years – the current crisis in Ukraine may reverse that trend

The Pentagon has announced that as many as 8,500 troops have been put on standby to be deployed in Europe as a counter to the threat of the Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s eastern border.
SOS Mediterranee team members from the humanitarian ship Ocean Viking approach a boat in distress with 30 people on board in the waters off Libya on Nov. 20, 2019. (Hannah Wallace Bowman/MSF via AP)

Why some EU countries are struggling to relocate migrants

The EU’s proposals for relocating migrants is inefficient in measuring whether member states actually have the economic capacity to welcome asylum-seekers.

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