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Chess 'has not been kind to women,' says world champion Magnus Carlsen

For Carlsen, the world's top-rated chess player and current world chess champion, the character of Beth in the Queen's Gambit could be "a role model for women and girls who want to play chess."

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Yalta Conference: How the post-War order was decided

Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met in Crimea on February 4, 1945. They carved up Germany, Europe and reshaped the world order.

World News

Euroviews. An opportunity the United Nations and its Secretary-General must not miss ǀ View

Today’s fast-changing geopolitical landscape is creating an environment in which a return to the collective security system of the UN should be attractive to great and small powers alike. The Secretary-General must seize this opportunity.

My Europe Series

1989: Europe and the wall

In this special edition of State of the Union, we took out the red sofa to ask people about their thoughts on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we speak to an MEP who lived through it as a young girl and look at the business of new walls in Europe.

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Euroviews. A free market brings freedom. Just look at what could be without a strong market ǀ View

When the Berlin Wall came down, and the Soviet Union collapsed, a lot of us thought the war was over and the “good guys” had won. Capitalism was the dominant economic system and the free market was accepted almost everywhere as the path to prosperity and human happiness. Or so we thought.

Germany

Watch: Visitors step behind Iron Curtain with VR tour of East Berlin

This virtual reality tour begins near the infamous Checkpoint Charlie border station between East and West Berlin.

Germany

Meet the women reunited 58 years after Berlin Wall was built

Two women have been reunited 58 years since they appeared in a now-famous photo shaking hands over the Berlin Wall.

USA

Euroviews. Russia is sending bombers near Alaska to show it can attack the U.S. if necessary ǀ View

The Russian president wants to signal that Moscow remains a strategic competitor to Washington and has the ability to attack the U.S. mainland.

Germany

The 'candy bombers' who gave a besieged city hope

It was the first crisis of the Cold War. But the airlift that saved Berlin 70 years ago still resonates among Germans - and helped cement friendship between former enemies.

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NATO at 70: what does the future hold for the military alliance?

Do you even think it's got a future?

Russia

The US says this Russian missile breaches landmark pact

Russia showed off the new cruise missile in hopes that it will save a landmark arms control pact with Washington.

Poland

Euroviews. '1983' is Netflix's dystopian answer to 'The Man in the High Castle'

“1983” makes the argument that true global entertainment is good for viewers around the world. I'm convinced.

Norway

Watch: NATO kicks off largest exercise since Cold War in Norway

Norway hosted NATO’s 2018 Trident Juncture war games. It involved 50,000 troops from all 29 member states, plus non-members Sweden and Finland.

Russia

Russia warns of retaliation as Trump says will exit nuclear arms pact

Donald Trump warned he will pull out of a Cold War nuclear weapons treaty with Russia.

United Kingdom

UK government in emergency briefings over Russian spy 'poisoning'

The UK government's emergency committee Cobra is to meet as anti-terrorist police take charge of the probe into the suspected poisoning of Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter.

Russia

Be cautious about Putin’s nuclear missile claim, says expert

Arms control specialist Petr Topychkanov told Euronews we should be sceptical about Russia President Vladimir Putin’s claim the country had developed weapons no other country in the world possessed.