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Less Middle England at prayer, more Middle England at war. Reform UK’s annual party conference, held during the first week of September under the sprawling steel canopy of Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre, was a battle cry for British nationalism.
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‘This is my house,’ one of the Israeli Jews declared in good Arabic as he broke down the door of the Burhan family’s home on the outskirts of Bir Zeit with a sledgehammer at the end of January of this year.
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Despite alarmist talk of a geopolitical ‘great replacement’, all the evidence suggests that Beijing is, in fact, more a victim than a cause of the erosion of the ‘US-led order’, an order from which it has greatly benefited.
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After two world wars, states divided by ideology nonetheless built a common international order. Faced now with the dangers of climate change, AI and rising militarism, they must find ways to cooperate again.
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The results of the first round of the Brazilian election are in, with Flávio Bolsonaro winning 47% of the vote, and Lula trailing behind with 45%. The run-off will be on 25 October. Washington is weighing heavily on this election.
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After two world wars, states divided by ideology nonetheless built a common international order. Faced now with the dangers of climate change, AI and rising militarism, they must find ways to cooperate again.
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In the run-up to October’s election, the US president has been using diplomatic pressure to undermine Brazilian sovereignty and bolster Flávio Bolsonaro. This continues a long history of US interference.
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Some of the world’s smallest states have taken their climate fight to the highest international court, shifting the debate from pleas for help to questions of human rights and state responsibility.
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Albania’s Adriatic coast, concrete-free until now, is beginning to suffer from tourism-led development. Winning political support for projects seems to be easy – especially if your name is Trump.
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On Moscow’s streets, signs of a nation at war are hard to see. Its effects are clearer in individual lives. The burden has fallen unevenly on Russians, reshaping fortunes and fracturing families.
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The prospect of Ukraine’s likely EU accession is becoming less popular with Poles, as farmers and truckers face price collapses. And with disputes over historical memory, too, mistrust is deepening.
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Nigel Farage is surrounded by scandal and has seen his poll numbers dip. To counter Andy Burnham, Britain’s populist leader marshalled his ‘People’s Army’ at Reform UK’s annual conference.
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The situation in the West Bank is increasingly violent. Jewish settlers are seizing and destroying Palestinian property in a campaign of dispossession, actively supported by the Israeli authorities.
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Many in the West see China as the real victor in the Iran war, with the US’s failures clearing Beijing’s path to global dominance. In reality, it has little to gain from a new world order.
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Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany has broken with its postwar military restraint: it is rearming at speed and has set its sights on becoming NATO’s leading European power, with US blessing.
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The wider Middle East is entering a new phase of history. Political and strategic upheavals are reconfiguring power relations across a region shaped by war and borders imposed in the early 20th century.
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The small self-proclaimed state of Somaliland is aiming to become a regional player: it is now an ally of Israel and has commercial and security agreements in the Gulf. Now it’s hoping for US support.
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