A Polish folk drummer has sent thanks to a 95-year-old Japanese schoolteacher whose cherry trees took root in a convent founded by a companion of Maximilian Kolbe.

Ukrainian children’s cherry-blossom paintings and two days of talks at the Rotary Peace Center, International Christian University, Tokyo. Admission free.

The Frontline Club, the gathering place for journalists, photographers, and everyone with an interest in international affairs, is built on a commitment to independent journalism, the freedom to report from the world’s most difficult places, and supporting events to encourage a deep dive into ‘frontline issues’. The Club provided the room, and the facilities to ensure that panellists in Kyiv and East Anglia were as present as those in London. The event was much more than a sh

Between us, we see both ends of the same problem. One of us tracks resistant organisms through the surveillance data; the other reconstructs the tissue they have destroyed. The picture from both ends is the same: up to 37 per cent of casualties who reach definitive care in Ukraine are carrying infections resistant to every antibiotic available. Some are resistant to drugs that did not exist as a resistance target three years ago. In 2024, we identified carbapenem-resistant gr