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A TV journalist prepares to do a piece to camera in front of an armoured personnel carrier (APC) on the frontline between Ukrainian forces and pro Russian separatists near the eastern Ukrainian city of Debaltseve, in the Donetsk region on 24, 2014.
A TV journalist prepares to do a piece to camera in front of an armoured personnel carrier (APC) on the frontline between Ukrainian forces and pro Russian separatists near the eastern Ukrainian city of Debaltseve, in the Donetsk region on 24, 2014. © Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images

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In this week’s update, read about how Russia is manipulating an energy crisis in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region as a tool of hybrid warfare.
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IWPR new website iwpr-latam.net showcases some of the region’s best investigative journalism produced with IWPR support. © Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
IWPR new website iwpr-latam.net showcases some of the region’s best investigative journalism produced with IWPR support. © Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Spotlight on Latin America
Launch of the Syria Prisons Museum at the National Museum in Damascus, September 15, 2025. © Prisons Museum
Launch of the Syria Prisons Museum at the National Museum in Damascus, September 15, 2025. © Prisons Museum
A cell block inside Sednaya Prison in Damascus, where thousands of people were said to be detained and tortured by the Assad regime over the last decade. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images; Inset graphic: digital reconstruction of the prison building, part of the virtual tour available at prisons.museum/en/syria © Syria Prisons Museum.
A cell block inside Sednaya Prison in Damascus, where thousands of people were said to be detained and tortured by the Assad regime over the last decade. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images; Inset graphic: digital reconstruction of the prison building, part of the virtual tour available at prisons.museum/en/syria © Syria Prisons Museum.
Syria - From Silence to Memory
Kunle Adebajo from Nigeria poses with his award for West Africa's Journalist of the Year 2025. Photo: Media Foundation for West Africa/Google Maps composite.
Kunle Adebajo from Nigeria poses with his award for West Africa's Journalist of the Year 2025. Photo: Media Foundation for West Africa/Google Maps composite.
West Africa's Journalist of the Year
Moldovan president Maia Sandu talks to the media outside a polling station after casting her vote on September 28, 2025 in Chisinau, Moldova. © Andrei Pungovschi/Getty Images
Moldovan president Maia Sandu talks to the media outside a polling station after casting her vote on September 28, 2025 in Chisinau, Moldova. © Andrei Pungovschi/Getty Images
Moldova’s Historic Vote
People remove possessions and inspect their homes following Israeli airstrikes on April 13, 2024 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. © Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images
People remove possessions and inspect their homes following Israeli airstrikes on April 13, 2024 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. © Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images
Recognising Palestine
Flowers and candles laid out during a vigil honouring journalists killed in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues. Washington, D.C., 11 Aug 2025. © Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images
Flowers and candles laid out during a vigil honouring journalists killed in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues. Washington, D.C., 11 Aug 2025. © Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images
Dying for the Truth
Fire and smoke rise into the sky after an Israeli attack on the Shahran oil depot on June 15, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. © Stringer/Getty Images
Fire and smoke rise into the sky after an Israeli attack on the Shahran oil depot on June 15, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. © Stringer/Getty Images
The Iran-Israel War
A woman looks at pictures of the bodies of prisoners recovered from prisons around Damascus on 16 December 2024. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images
A woman looks at pictures of the bodies of prisoners recovered from prisons around Damascus on 16 December 2024. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images
Seeking Justice in Post-Assad Syria
Captured Russian soldier, Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, attends a court hearing on May 18, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Sgt. Shishimarin pleaded guilty to shooting a civilian on a bicycle in the village of Chupakhivka, Sumy Region, days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. © Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Captured Russian soldier, Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, attends a court hearing on May 18, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Sgt. Shishimarin pleaded guilty to shooting a civilian on a bicycle in the village of Chupakhivka, Sumy Region, days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. © Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Ukraine: Understanding War Crimes Trials
Relatives of drug war victims hold pictures of their loved ones during a gathering on March 12, 2025 in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines. © Ezra Acayan/Getty Images
Relatives of drug war victims hold pictures of their loved ones during a gathering on March 12, 2025 in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines. © Ezra Acayan/Getty Images
ICC Arrests Philippine’s Duterte
A woman waves the flag of the Syrian rebels as people gather to celebrate the fall of the government, in Umayyad Square on December 8, 2024 in Damascus, Syria. Rebel forces in Syria claimed that they had retaken the capital from longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, who was reported to have fled the country. © Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images
A woman waves the flag of the Syrian rebels as people gather to celebrate the fall of the government, in Umayyad Square on December 8, 2024 in Damascus, Syria. Rebel forces in Syria claimed that they had retaken the capital from longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, who was reported to have fled the country. © Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images
Syria After Assad: Euphoria and Fears
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