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Get down to Syria’s business: coming talks with Turkey
Through years of Syria’s messy civil war, Turkey has been a foe. As the conflict slowly fades, the countries have a mutual interest in rapprochement.…
3 years, 6 months ago
What did the president stow and when did he stow it? Biden‘s mess
A drip-feed of discoveries of classified material in Joe Biden’s home and offices—and the president’s botched messaging around them—are a gift to Rep…
3 years, 6 months ago
Zero-sum: the imperilled global economic order
Countries across the world are turning inward, embracing protectionism, subsidies and export controls. This threatens the global order that has lifte…
3 years, 6 months ago
Unveiled threats: Iran's patient protesters
Iran’s protests may have gone quiet for the moment, but that does not mean they’ve been defeated. Beneath a calmer surface, Iranians are seething and…
3 years, 6 months ago
Doctors’ disorders: Britain’s overwhelmed health service
Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis. Wait times are rising, nurses and paramedics are striking, and doctors are overworked—leading to hund…
3 years, 7 months ago
Unquiet on the eastern front: fighting in the Donbas
Russian troops have turned Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, into a charnel house—and a proving ground for its mercenary army. The booming North Sea regio…
3 years, 7 months ago
Cloud coup-coup land: riots in Brazil
In a scene reminiscent of the US Capitol riot two years ago, supporters of Brazil’s defeated president rampaged through government buildings yesterda…
3 years, 7 months ago
Bibi’s got backup: Israel’s right-wing government
Israel’s new government is its most right-wing ever—but, in a break from the past, that may not derail deepening relations with neighbouring Arab cou…
3 years, 7 months ago
Silva’s mettle: Brazil’s newish president
Our Brazil correspondent surveys the state of the country, as Lula assumes the presidency precisely 20 years after his first inauguration. We ask why…
3 years, 7 months ago
We need to balk about Kevin: Congress opens in chaos
Republican control of America’s House of Representatives began in chaos: they failed to elect a speaker, the first time in a century that’s happened.…
3 years, 7 months ago