Helen Nianias
VICE
United Kingdom
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Russia Is Wheeling 60-Year-Old Tanks Out Of Storage for the War in Ukraine
Cold War-era T-62 tanks are being retrofitted with modern technology, but British intelligence says they lack modern explosive reactive armour. → Read More
Opera Director ‘Smeared Critic's Face With Dog Shit’ After Bad Review
Marco Goecke is said to have become enraged at a review describing his production as “boring”. He's been suspended as director of Hanover State Opera while a criminal complaint has also been filed. → Read More
Student And His Family Rescued From Rubble After Posting Location on WhatsApp
Desperate earthquake survivors like Boran Kubat are using Instagram and WhatsApp to plead with rescuers to find them, as the death-toll from the quake is projected to hit 20,000. → Read More
Man Who Wanted to Kill Queen With Crossbow Admits Treason Charge
Jaswant Singh Chail was caught at Windsor Castle wearing a metal mask and carrying a loaded crossbow. He is the first person convicted of treason in the UK for more than 40 years. → Read More
97-Year-Old Woman Guilty in What Could Be Germany’s Last-Ever Nazi Trial
Irmgard Furchner worked as a secretary at a Nazi death camp where 65,000 prisoners are thought to have died. → Read More
Russia to Deploy Team of ‘Creatives’ to Ukraine Frontlines
Vladimir Putin is trying to boost Russian troops’ low morale. What better way to do that than sending musicians to the battlefields? → Read More
Saudi Arabia Wins Bid to Host Asian Winter Games in City That Doesn’t Yet Exist
NEOM, a futuristic city that's the brainchild of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, is slated to host the 2029 event. → Read More
Queen Elizabeth II Has Died Aged 96
The Queen’s death was announced on Thursday. → Read More
The Queen Is Under Medical Supervision as Doctors Are Concerned for Her Health
Prince Charles has travelled to Balmoral Castle, where the Queen, 96, is being treated by her doctors. → Read More
The UK Has a New Prime Minister. It's the Woman Who Got Angry About Cheese.
Liz Truss entered the public’s consciousness after giving an unusual speech about cheese and apples. Now she is replacing Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. → Read More
Beirut’s Grain Silos Collapse Exactly 2 Years After Explosion Tore Through City
The silos collapsed as people were due to commemorate victims on the two-year anniversary of the blast. → Read More
A Chess Robot Broke the Finger of Its 7-Year-Old Opponent in Russia
“This, of course, is bad,” said the president of Moscow’s chess federation. → Read More
‘Kaboom’: Russia Withdraws From Ukraine’s Snake Island
Ukraine said it had forced Russia off the strategically and symbolically important Black Sea island, while Russia said it was pulling out as a “goodwill gesture.” → Read More
George W. Bush Accidentally Called the Invasion of Iraq ‘Unjustified and Brutal’
The former US president was supposed to be talking about Ukraine in this incredible self-own. → Read More
Ukraine’s Bravery Surprised Even Me, Zelenskyy Says
In a Zoom call hosted by a British think tank, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he believed "normal people" from any country would behave the same way if they were attacked. → Read More
‘I couldn’t even wash after giving birth’: how showers are restoring the dignity of female refugees
Women at Moria camp in Greece wear nappies because they are so scared of being attacked while going to the toilet. When a construction worker read about their plight, he put his experience at Glastonbury to good use → Read More
'Our men are leaving us': the Rohingya women facing life alone
Having fled persecution in Myanmar, a growing number of women are at risk of harassment and attack in Bangladesh after being deserted by their husbands → Read More
Lessons from Kosovo? How a European hotbed of Islamist extremism deals with returning fighters
Do deradicalisation efforts in Kosovo hold any clues for other countries seeking solutions to Islamist extremism? → Read More
The Syrian refugee child who started a school: 'The kids wanted an education'
For a 12-year-old boy in a Lebanese refugee camp, learning about photography ended his isolation, and inspired him to get funding for a school there → Read More
No hugs, no one to talk to: how Ugandan orphanages are harming a generation
A boom in the orphanage industry is fuelling concern that many institutions are run for economic benefit, with scant regulation, and are damaging children → Read More