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Jul 18, 2025
Japan's ongoing rice shortage is bringing greater awareness to farmers' issues, and greater scrutiny to the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, ahead of critical parliamentary elections.
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Jul 17, 2025
The breakdown in public order in Gaza accompanying the weakening of Hamas has allowed armed gangs to seize influence. That is affecting distribution of badly needed food aid, but the perpetuation of disorder is another concern.
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Jul 17, 2025
Live Aid raised over $150 million in 1985 for starving people in Ethiopia. Citizens around the world today focus more on issues closer to home. At what cost?
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Jul 16, 2025
Armenia's government is facing off against its ancient church as the former tries to sign a peace deal with the country's long-time enemy Azerbaijan.
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Jul 16, 2025
Gentrification has sparked anger at foreigners in Mexico City, prompting residents and activists to look for creative ways to build an inclusive city.
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Jul 16, 2025
A transformative program in western Massachusetts helps young people learn the value of stewarding the land, while also taking joy in conservation.
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Jul 16, 2025
In Kenya, American aid workers fired during the Trump administration's purge of USAID ask themselves: What comes next?
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Jul 15, 2025
Germany's railways, once an exemplar of national timeliness, are now chronically late to the point of it being a national crisis. What happened?
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Jul 15, 2025
Thousands of tourists are flocking to visit South Korea's version of the White House before it closes to the public, stirring debate around the proper use of such buildings.
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Jul 14, 2025
With Ukraine's air defense systems overwhelmed by a surge of Russian attacks, mobile antidrone teams have emerged as an indispensable - if insufficient - defensive line against the onslaught.
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Jul 11, 2025
Rebuilding Syria is proving a potentially lethal task, as streets and farmland are seeded with unexploded land mines - with children and civilians in harm's way.
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Jul 11, 2025
Ukrainians aren't entirely sure why Russia has been targeting Kharkiv's dairies. But over the last three years the region, Ukraine's third-largest producer of milk in 2021, has lost half its herd of 33,000 cows.
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Jul 11, 2025
Many Western democracies are worried about far-right parties' popularity. But some are finding that letting them into government actually brings them back to earth.
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Jul 10, 2025
Tariffs have become central to President Trump's foreign policy playbook. But in his Brazil tariff threat, is he conflating his own personal interests with those of the United States?
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Jul 10, 2025
Benjamin Netanyahu has long sold himself to the Israeli public as "Mr. Security," but Hamas' devastating Oct. 7 attack stained his record. Now he's hoping the war with Iran has rehabilitated his image.
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Jul 10, 2025
Trump promised to be the president to end all wars. But that pledge depends on convincing Israel and Russia that military force alone will never prevail.
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Jul 09, 2025
With climate change thawing the Arctic, Canada is boosting security by spending on both military and northern communities to bolster regional safety.
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Jul 09, 2025
Throughout the Gaza war, Israeli buffer zones have expanded through a series of evacuation orders. While the orders are often framed as security precautions, for many Palestinians they appear part of a slow-motion land grab.
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Jul 08, 2025
The world has a fascination with Mount Everest - one that brings both money and destruction to Nepal's Himalayan region. Now, long-awaited regulations could transform how the mountain operates.
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Jul 07, 2025
As Trump doles out tariffs and moves away from global climate pacts, Brazil's Lula is ready to step into the spotlight with his vision for international cooperation.
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Jul 07, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump will meet to discuss Middle East tensions and celebrate their progress in Iran, including the strikes on nuclear facilities. Questions remain on how Mr. Trump plans to push for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Jul 07, 2025
Progress roundup: Science reveals how rice crops can resist heat for better yields and quality, and how building codes work against hurricanes.
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Jul 07, 2025
European nations have pledged more NATO funding partly through a novel redefinition of "defense." Is it gimmickry or a more holistic approach to security?
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Jul 04, 2025
Russia launched 550 drones and missiles across Ukraine overnight in the largest aerial assault since the war began. Hours after the barrage, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he talked with U.S. President Donald Trump about the attack.
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Jul 03, 2025
Villagers in south Lebanon, hit last year by Israeli strikes on Hezbollah, find new meaning in the observance of the Shia mourning period of Ashoura.
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Jul 03, 2025
Will U.S. bombs deter Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, or persuade it that only a nuclear weapon will deter more U.S. bombs?
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Jul 03, 2025
Israel's military success in Iran has spurred hopes that the Jewish state might take more daring steps toward peace in Gaza.
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Jul 02, 2025
Europe is not built for the heat. It's all that residents like the Monitor's Paris correspondent can do to find ways to keep just a little bit cooler.
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Jul 01, 2025
Thailand's prime minister has been suspended over her handling of a border conflict with Cambodia, raising concerns about a potential return to military rule.
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Jul 01, 2025
Finland is withdrawing from an international treaty banning land mines, putting its fear of neighboring Russia above its commitment to humanitarian law.
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Jul 01, 2025
Haitians are facing historic levels of deportation from the Dominican Republic, an easy domestic political win. Can new voices shift the conversation?
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Jul 01, 2025
The nonprofit Rozan was set up in 1998 with the goal of eradicating domestic violence from Pakistani society.
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Jun 30, 2025
A refuge for African asylum-seekers in a small Spanish town illustrates the difficulties of integrating immigrants, but some newcomers are fitting in.
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Jun 30, 2025
Still recovering from the worst hunger crisis in living memory, a community in Sudan's Nuba Mountains gathers to celebrate a marriage.
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Jun 30, 2025
Progress roundup: Science enables Brazil to transform its economy, German researchers to find a microbe that makes detergent, and California to filter PFAS.
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Jun 29, 2025
The strikes targeted several regions, including western Ukraine, far from the front lines. Officials confirmed three deaths and said another two died in Russian shelling.
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Jun 27, 2025
When is an airline more than an airline? When it's a source of civic pride like the homegrown Air North, in the Canadian territory of Yukon.
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Jun 27, 2025
Iranian expats in Europe are torn over the conflict between Iran and Israel. While they despise Iran's regime, they fear for loved ones back home.
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Jun 27, 2025
Donald Trump says Iran's nuclear site was destroyed, but early intelligence reports say otherwise. The key to understanding what is left is determining where Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium is and the state of the centrifuges that enrich the fuel.
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Jun 27, 2025
Officials in suburban Paris have removed benches to promote safety, altering public spaces in the process. Efforts to restore that seating aim to highlight how community and understanding are built.
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Jun 26, 2025
Starkly different narratives about the Israel-Iran war's results point to multiple unresolved issues and underlying tensions that remain. A central question is whether postwar diplomacy, if and when it resumes, returns to square one.
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Jun 26, 2025
Much has been made of the emerging alliance among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. But the recent strikes on Iran highlight its limits.
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Jun 25, 2025
How it feels to visit my family's refuge from the Holocaust in New Zealand, and find myself separated from my children in Israel, enduring Iranian missile attacks.
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Jun 24, 2025
In France, criminals generally serve concurrent sentences. That's frustrating the many, many victims of convicted rapist Joël Le Scouarnec.
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Jun 24, 2025
Iran trained and armed a network of regional proxies to help it stand up to Israel and the United States. But they were absent from the costly war it just fought. One reason: a preoccupation with their own survival.
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Jun 24, 2025
President Trump has persuaded Iran and Israel to accept a ceasefire that could pave the way for resumed talks on the future of Iran's nuclear program.
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Jun 23, 2025
Palestinians in Gaza say they are contending daily with deadly air strikes and widespread hunger. But they fear the world is looking away, as the Israel-Iran war has pushed the Israel-Hamas war from front pages.
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Jun 23, 2025
Every year, Europe is among the top vacation spots. While tourists flood in for the summer, locals have taken to the streets. Protesters are unhappy with the pressure that overtourism has put on infrastructure and resources such as water and energy.
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Jun 23, 2025
US demands that Iran surrender unconditionally to Washington-imposed limits on its nuclear program are seen as an affront to Iranian national pride.
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Jun 22, 2025
President Trump hopes to bomb Iran to the nuclear negotiating table, but Tehran has shown no sign yet of acceding. Could the U.S. face more fighting?
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Jun 22, 2025
President Trump hopes to bomb Iran to the nuclear negotiating table, but Tehran has shown no sign yet of acceding. Could the U.S. face more fighting?
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Jun 22, 2025
It was not clear whether the United States would continue attacking Iran alongside Israel. President Donald Trump warned Iran that any reprisals against the U.S. would be met with additional strikes. "There will either be peace or there will be tragedy for Iran," he said.
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Jun 21, 2025
President Donald Trump says the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel's effort to decapitate the country's nuclear program. Mr. Trump will address the nation at 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.
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Jun 21, 2025
Key dissendent figure Siarhei Tsikhanouski, longtime radio correspondent Ihar Karnei, and 12 others walked free after authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko met with a top U.S. official in Minsk.
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Jun 20, 2025
President Trump has broken with two decades of U.S. policy by approving Israel's ambition to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. Could he go further?
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Jun 20, 2025
When the Trump administration slashed funding for international aid, it halved food rations for refugees in Kenya, like Ugandan Martin Komol. As funding for the U.N. World Food Program has dropped, there are limited resources to fill the gap.
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Jun 20, 2025
In Ukraine's border region of Sumy, Russian forces are making very slow progress, but enough to force Ukrainian civilians from their villages.
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Jun 20, 2025
In Ukraine's border region of Sumy, Russian forces are making very slow progress, but enough to force Ukrainian civilians from their villages.
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Jun 20, 2025
Johannesburg's central library recently reopened after a five-year closure, a signal of the city's revival after years of decline.
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Jun 19, 2025
India and Pakistan are both on campaigns to shape the global narrative about last month's armed conflict. But within Pakistan, no such scrambling is required, as the country rallies around its powerful military.
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Jun 19, 2025
With the West now inhospitable to them, Russian tourists are finding new holiday opportunities in North Korea, Afghanistan, and other unlikely spots.
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Jun 19, 2025
China's campaign to unify Taiwan with the mainland is now extending to a crackdown on Taiwanese who Beijing deems 'pro-independence.'
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Jun 18, 2025
Iran's prewar economy was beleaguered, while Israel's showed signs of recovery. A long conflict will test both their resilience.
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Jun 17, 2025
The United States posed an obstacle to solidarity at the Group of Seven summit. But under Canada's guidance, the group was able to make progress.
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Jun 17, 2025
Despite their competition for regional influence, Arab states are not rooting for the Iranian regime's fall. Led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, they are urging President Trump to seek a ceasefire, and a return to business-friendly regional stability.
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Jun 17, 2025
Despite their competition for regional influence, Arab states are not rooting for the Iranian regime's fall. Led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, they are urging President Trump to seek a ceasefire, and a return to business-friendly regional stability.
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Jun 17, 2025
With emergency vehicles in short supply in Ukraine, volunteers are building armored ambulances to carry medics and soldiers around the battlefield.
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Jun 17, 2025
The Knowledge, Solutions, Skills, and Kreativity school on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital provides six years of learning for students who would otherwise be unable to afford it.
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Jun 16, 2025
After 20 months of war in Gaza, Israelis had become somewhat accustomed to missile attacks. The barrage from Iran is causing vastly more death and destruction in Israeli cities, but is raising both stress and resilience among civilians.
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Jun 16, 2025
How Iranians are dealing with Israeli airstrikes, which are inflicting unexpected destruction on military and civilian targets.
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Jun 16, 2025
Everyone agrees the justice system in Mexico needs to be revamped. But where the ruling power sees its new reform as a leap forward, others believe Mexico has just moved several steps backward.
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Jun 16, 2025
International students are deleting social media posts and accounts as the Trump administration tightens visa rules and expands digital surveillance. The policy is raising concerns over unfair profiling and pushing young people to self-censor online.
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Jun 16, 2025
Louvre staff launched a strike on June 16 over "untenable" working conditions tied to overcrowding at France's greatest cultural treasure. Every day, more than 20,000 people squeeze into the museum's largest room to snap a picture with the Mona Lisa.
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Jun 16, 2025
China, the largest producer and consumer of seafood, signs a safeguard against illegal fishing. And in Colombia, a program eases adoption of renewables.
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Jun 16, 2025
Relations between Ottawa and Washington have hit the skids. That is presenting Canada an opportunity to rebuild its global influence, including via the G7.
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Jun 13, 2025
U.S.-Israeli foundation GHF claims it has delivered millions of food packs in Gaza. But stories abound of shooting and chaos near distribution points.
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Jun 13, 2025
Israel has long feared Iran's nuclear program was geared toward developing a weapon. Now that Israel has overtly bombed nuclear sites, inviting an Iranian response, is U.S. diplomacy still possible?
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Jun 13, 2025
Keeping songbirds is a source of joy and pride for hundreds of thousands of Indonesians, but the tradition is also wreaking havoc on their ecosystem.
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Jun 13, 2025
Israel said it attacked Iranian nuclear targets to ensure that Tehran never makes a nuclear weapon. But Iran may see such a weapon as its only deterrent.
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Jun 12, 2025
President Donald Trump has cut aid to Africa and insulted one of its elder statesmen. Will that harm his search for rare earths essential to high-tech goods?
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Jun 12, 2025
Hundreds lined the central square in Graz, Austria, for a minute of silence for the 10 people killed in a school shooting on June. In a search of the shooter's home, investigators found a farewell letter, video, and a non-functional pipe bomb.
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Jun 12, 2025
No country recognizes the sovereignty of Somaliland, a self-governing region of Somalia. The Trump administration might soon change that.
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Jun 11, 2025
Syria's Druze community is divided among those wanting to work with the government, those seeking autonomy, and others looking for outside aid.
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Jun 11, 2025
In the United Kingdom, millennials are bonding over an unusual shared touchpoint: the hymns they sang in their elementary school assemblies.
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Jun 10, 2025
With a high-profile political assassination attempt over the weekend, is Colombia getting any closer to "total peace"?
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Jun 10, 2025
Progress roundup: Captive-bred salamander can survive in the wild, and old fynbos seeds will germinate, sowing science's hope for habitat restoration.
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Jun 10, 2025
Judge Omar Weslati helped start a library for students in Bir El Euch, Tunisia. Other libraries soon followed.
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Jun 09, 2025
South Africa's unlikely coalition government has survived a year. Few thought that possible.
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Jun 07, 2025
Israel says the body of Nattapong Pinta was retrieved in a special military operation. He had come to Israel to work in agriculture.
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Jun 06, 2025
The election of Lee Jae-myung heralds a foreign policy shift for South Korea as the country seeks to balance its critical U.S. security alliance with a more pragmatic, amicable approach to China.
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Jun 06, 2025
In the wake of the United States' aid cuts, which supported projects in agriculture and food security across Zimbabwe, locals are devising their own solutions. For instance, one community built rainwater storage tanks from chicken wire, canvas, and cement.
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Jun 06, 2025
More than a century after Arab revolutionaries blew up the Ottomans' prized Hejaz Railway, located in the geographic heart of the Middle East, Syria's new government is pushing full steam ahead on its revival.
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Jun 06, 2025
El Salvador's president escalated crackdowns on protest and civil society in May, prompting the question "Why now?"
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Jun 05, 2025
Donald Trump makes the Indo-Pacific the U.S. military's top priority in his "America First" foreign policy, but Asian allies are unsettled by Washington's tariff war.
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Jun 05, 2025
New Zealand legislators suspended three Maori lawmakers on June 5 after they performed a Haka, a chanting dance of challenge. The lawmakers aimed to protest a bill that could endanger Indigenous rights.
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Jun 04, 2025
After a tighter-than-expected presidential election, Lee Jae-myung aims to restore stability to a nation wracked by months of political upheaval. But issues of trust remain.
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Jun 04, 2025
Even as the United States and Iran grapple with each other's nuclear red lines, the simple fact of engagement underscores a pragmatic turn for Tehran regarding President Donald Trump.
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Jun 04, 2025
Ukraine's asymmetric drone attack caught the world's attention and dealt a significant blow to Russia's defense. Peace prospects may hinge on how Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump respond.
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Jun 03, 2025
Poland has enormous potential within Europe. But it seems to be of two minds of how to realize that potential, which may be hindering its progress.
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Jun 03, 2025
The Russian military has turned to a grim strategy in Kherson: targeting civilians in drone attacks. Still, many local Ukrainians refuse to leave.
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