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Laurence Norman

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ARTICLES BY LAURENCE NORMAN

A view shows an apartment building damaged by Russian military strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in this picture taken from the window of an armoured vehicle, in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine. (Photo: Reuters)

China tries to play the role of peacemaker in Ukraine

6 min read . 10:24 AM IST

Iran has one of the most powerful ballistic-missile stockpiles in the Middle East. (Image: Reuters)

China is helping supply chemicals for Iran’s ballistic-missile program

5 min read . 24 Jan 2025

Moscow has hinted that it might use nuclear weapons in Ukraine and introduced a doctrine in November that made the grounds for potentially using them broader and more explicit. (AP)

The bomb is back as the risk of nuclear war enters a new age

3 min read . 13 Jan 2025

The oil is from a stockpile of at least 25 million barrels that Iran sent to China in late 2018. (Bloomberg)

Iran races to sell oil stored in China

4 min read . 11 Jan 2025

Russian gas is not scheduled to flow via Ukraine to Europe on January 1, data from Ukraine's gas pipeline operator showed on December 31, 2024, as a key transit deal between Moscow and Kyiv neared its end. (Photo: AFP)

Russian gas to Europe stops flowing after Ukraine refuses to renew pipeline deal

3 min read . 01 Jan 2025

Islamist-led rebels took Damascus in a lightning offensive on 8 December, ousting president Bashar al-Assad and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (AFP)

The West auditions Syria’s new leaders

5 min read . 21 Dec 2024

Ukrainian servicemen pay tribute to fallen Ukrainian soldiers at the Lychakiv cemetery on the Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in Lviv on December 6, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo: AFP)

Trump to Europe: Overseeing a Ukraine cease-fire would be your job

6 min read . 13 Dec 2024

A jet fighter lands on the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Arabian Gulf. Photo: U.S. Navy/Reuters

Trump team weighs options, including airstrikes, to stop Iran’s nuclear program

7 min read . 13 Dec 2024

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. (AFP)

Zelensky signals he’s open to negotiating a peace deal

6 min read . 03 Dec 2024

Chinese leader Xi Jinping arriving to meet with France’s president during China’s state visit to Paris in May. The European Union has recently toughened its stance on trade with China, including raising tariffs on China-made EVs. Photo: ludovic marin/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

A top mission for Europe’s chief is to cool Trump’s ire toward the EU

5 min read . 01 Dec 2024

A domestically built Iranian missile at an aerospace park outside Tehran. (AP)

Iran sharply expands stockpile of nuclear fuel ahead of Trump’s return

2 min read . 20 Nov 2024

Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed hope that Donald Trump’s tough talk about American power can force Moscow to make peace. Photo: AP

Trump’s push for Ukraine peace finds growing acceptance in Europe

1 min read . 17 Nov 2024

The first Soviet atomic bomb test, dubbed ‘First Lightning,’ or ‘Joe-1’ by the U.S., took place in August 1949. SOVFOTO/UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP/GETTY IMAGES

Nuclear-war risks rise again, stoked by global conflicts

6 min read . 16 Oct 2024

In late September, a former head of Iran’s atomic agency, Fereydoun Abbasi, suggested that Tehran could start producing 90% enriched, weapons-grade uranium. (Image: Pixabay)

A weakened Iran still has a major deterrent: the nuclear option

5 min read . 08 Oct 2024

Germany has reintroduced checks at its borders with all neighboring countries. John MacDougall/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Europe grasps for ways to stop the migrant surge

6 min read . 25 Sep 2024

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. (Photo: Vahid Salemi/Associated Press.) (AP)

Iran’s new president faces a reality check in New York

6 min read . 24 Sep 2024

Firefighters extinguish fire in trucks at a site where warehouse facilities were hit during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, September 6, 2024. (Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via Reuters)

Ukraine pressed to think about a Plan B for war with Russia

6 min read . 11 Sep 2024

Mario Draghi, former president of the European Central Bank (ECB). Draghi called on the EU to invest as much as 800 billion euros extra a year to make the bloc more competitive and to commit to the regular issuance of common bonds to compete with China and the US. (Photo: Bloomberg)

‘Super Mario’ Draghi pitches radical change to fix Europe’s economy

5 min read . 09 Sep 2024

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Reuters)

Iran is better positioned to launch nuclear-weapons program, new US intelligence

6 min read . 09 Aug 2024

Iran’s notification on Monday came after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on a call Sunday told a Group of Seven foreign ministers that Tehran could attack Israel within 24 to 48 hours. (AFP)

Iran warns pilots to avoid airspace as Middle East awaits attack

2 min read . 05 Aug 2024