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Is nuclear war a real prospect again?

Putin’s actions in Ukraine have put nuclear war back on the geopolitical agenda

XI urges China to maintain strict Covid-19 policy amid rise in cases

Firms allowed to reopen in Shenzhen where 17.5m residents being tested daily

China starts to feel the pain from its friendship with Russia

Beijing’s economy deeply exposed to market turmoil and sanctions unleashed by war in Ukraine

China celebrates its joyless spectacle as Winter Olympics ends without disaster

Most contentious Games in years overshadowed by doping scandal and Ukraine crisis

Richard O’Halloran’s return: Averting a China crisis

Diplomacy and the businessman’s own dogged negotiations brought him home, not loud calls for action

Portugal’s Socialists win surprise majority as voters ‘bank on stability’

Prime minister António Costa upsets polls and can now govern without other left support

Portugal’s PM claims Socialists have won full parliamentary majority in general election

Costa has won plaudits for turning around Portugal’s post-crisis economy

Portugal goes to the polls amid record Covid-19 numbers

Far-right Chega party vying to be the country’s third force in parliament

When communists took over the Rotunda to fight for Dublin’s unemployed

Liam O’Flaherty led the armed four-day occupation 100 years ago this week

Mass trials in Cuba deepen its harshest crackdown in decades

More than 60 people have gone on trial in relation to protests over Cuba’s economic crisis

Xi Jinping had a good 2021, and he ends it with an iron grip on China

The president’s path has been cleared to lead for life, but he faces problems domestically

Revolutionary biopic’s success a sign of Brazil’s coarsening debate

São Paulo Letter: Bolsonaro attempted to prevent Marighella reaching cinemas

The pandemic has taught EU to play hardball on trade

Europe Letter: Broken supply chains, tricky neighbours and vaccine rifts prompt change

Bottoms Up: On the mysterious origins of a global fashion craze

An Irishman’s Diary

The Irish Times view on Peng Shuai’s disappearance: a staged return

Beijing will have to do far more to convince the world that the tennis star is not subject to coercion

Miriam Lord: TDs fume as Antigen 4 All in the Dáil gets noses out of joint

Elsewhere this week, Bertie Ahern’s comments on the North go completely south

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