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Remembering the 2014 Ukraine revolution, which set the stage for the 2022 Russian invasion
It's been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. But nine years ago this week, CBC News correspondent Susan Ormiston and videographer Pascal Leblond witnessed dramatic events in Ukraine that set the stage for the current war.
Ukraine wants to make Russia pay for environmental toll of war
Missiles and mortars kill and maim people, but Russia’s year-long war in Ukraine is also poisoning the air, ground and sea, says Ukraine’s minister of environmental protection, who is building a case that Russia should pay for its ecological "crimes."
Canadian climate minister's 1st full year in office was one of cred and compromise
As his first full year in office wraps, activist-turned-politician Steven Guilbeault is in the midst of hosting the world for the UN's COP15 conference in Montreal, as Canada's minister of environment and climate change.
CBC IN UKRAINE
For Ukraine's war wounded, physical injuries compounded by trauma of how they got them
While there is often an emphasis in conflict on the dead, the wounded end up bearing not only the burden of their injuries but the memories of what they witnessed.
CBC IN UKRAINE
In Lviv, Ukraine, civilians take resistance to Russia into their own hands
On the outskirts of Lviv, Ukraine, a handful of men had the road to their town blocked with heavy machinery and metal barricades. It's part of the civilian-led resistance movement in this western Ukraine city.
After years of war in Kandahar, Taliban leaders now seek aid from former enemies
Two months after the Taliban swept into Kandahar — part of its march toward the ultimate collapse of Afghanistan — CBC News went back to the southern region where Canadians had fought and died.
Pakistan's tricky adjustment to the Taliban's return to power next door
A month after Pakistan's prime minister heralded the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan as "breaking the chains of slavery," his government is adjusting its conflicted relationship with the Taliban and urging the world to help Afghanistan rather than isolate it. Susan Ormiston reports from Pakistan.
CBC IN PAKISTAN
'In search of a better life': Afghans in desperate need inside and outside the country
More than two weeks after the Taliban swept into Kabul, there is still no working government, leaving Afghans increasingly anxious and some looking to a new life in Pakistan for a better future.
Canadian Afghans stranded in Kabul frantic for help from Canadian government
The story of a small group of Canadian Afghans trying to escape the country gives a glimpse of the danger that hundreds of others with ties to Canada now face in the aftermath of the Taliban takeover.
'I'm scared': Afghan who worked with foreign partners fearful of Taliban visits
Taliban soldiers riding in Afghan army vehicles visited apartments in Kabul on Tuesday, looking for former Afghan government staff and other Afghans who worked with international organizations, according to an eyewitness who spoke with CBC News.