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Stuck on Lesbos
Last month a fire burned down the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, which had been hugely overcrowded. The cause was arson, but what …
5 years, 9 months ago
US: the Covid Campaign
For President Trump to have had Covid-19 so close to the election presents political dilemmas. Play it down, and you offend the relatives of the dead…
5 years, 10 months ago
War in Nagorno-Karabakh - or Artsakh
Fighting has continued in Nagorno-Karabakh, the territory inhabited and run by ethnic Armenians, but officially still part of Azerbaijan. The armed c…
5 years, 10 months ago
Mozambique: the birth of a new conflict
In Mozambique, the northernmost province of Cabo Delgado may have become the latest outpost of the so-called Islamic State insurgency, with reports o…
5 years, 10 months ago
Leaving Lebanon
Lebanon has suffered not just a catastrophic blast that cost around two hundred lives, but also a devastating economic crisis. The value of the curre…
5 years, 10 months ago
Have the Taliban changed?
The first formal face-to-face Afghanistan peace talks are underway in Doha, the capital of the Gulf State of Qatar. These historic negotiations betwe…
5 years, 10 months ago
Will Greece and Turkey go to war?
Greece and Turkey have agreed to hold talks to help defuse their stand-off over disputed gas reserves near their shores. Ankara had deployed a resear…
5 years, 10 months ago
Making peace with Israel
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements to normalise relations with Israel, this week, motivated by a desire to build a united front a…
5 years, 10 months ago
Can India cope with Covid-19?
India now has the second highest number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the world, having overtaken Brazil. This is placing huge demands on hospita…
5 years, 10 months ago
“You must come with us!”
This week’s dispatches, introduced by Kate Adie, are:
Steve Rosenberg in Belarus reflects on the history he shares with President Lukashenko, recently…
5 years, 11 months ago