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Unspun World: Is Ukraine's counter-offensive a turning point?
Ukraine prepares a renewed offensive. Plus, what is a pangenome and how will it help us?

Introducing The Explanation
On a mission to make sense of the world

How the Good Friday Agreement helped bring peace to Northern Ireland
Denis Murray reflects on the legacy of the 1998 agreement

Ethiopia, Eritrea and border wars
Kalkidan Yibeltal explains the complex history between the two countries

Sudan’s journey from independence to revolution
Mohanad Hashim explains some of the complex history of the country he grew up in

How Yemen has been engulfed by civil war
Nawal Al-Maghafi explains how war has caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises

Who are the Uyghurs and why are they being persecuted?
John Sudworth tells the story behind China's treatment of its Uyghur minority

Cuba–United States relations
How a long, complex history between neighbours led to such an uneasy relationship

Roe v Wade and abortion in America
Katty Kay explains how abortion became central to American politics

How Syria's peaceful uprising became a civil war
Lina Sinjab tells Claire Graham about the conflict in her native country