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The Palestinian Authority hasn’t held a legislative election since 2006, and President Mahmoud Abbas has governed by decree since 2009.
A vote planned for November could change that, but the odds are stacked against it, Elfadil Ibrahim writes.
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Verbal hyperbole and intimidation have long been among U.S. President Donald Trump’s favorite weapons.
His speech to the U.N. General Assembly this week showed how much of their firepower they have lost.
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Niger’s junta put down its most serious mutiny since seizing power in 2023. But the revolt exposed how fragile the regime is, and its purge of suspected mutineers risks weakening an army already struggling against jihadists, @TangiBihan writes.
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A new report urging the U.S. to pull its forces back from East Asia and end its alliances there has been widely condemned.
But are the report’s recommendations completely off base? Columnist @ProfPaulPoast weighs in:
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As foreign support for his administration wanes, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called the first legislative elections in 20 years.
Whether Palestinians actually vote in November remains genuinely uncertain.
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Lots of discussion lately about "island chains". In my latest for @WPReview, I both defend and critique the recent @defpriorities report by @jekavanagh. It's an important read that should lead to some rethinking, if not wholesale changes, in how the US approaches East Asian defense.
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In 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to “totally destroy” North Korea made front pages around the world.
After a decade on the global stage, his rhetorical extremes have lost much of their shock value, columnist @FridaGhitis writes.
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Revisited for WPR’s 20th anniversary: With China’s rise lending new luster to state-led development, and industrial policy no longer a dirty word in the West, will African governments use a moment of crisis to break with the model of the past four decades?
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Brazil’s Banco Master banking scandal leaves both camps in a bind. The Bolsonaros can attack a Supreme Court they distrust only by highlighting their own ties to the disgraced banker, while Lula must defend the court under scrutiny.
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Militaries around the world are embracing AI, and unless that comes with better training on how to use it, near-misses caused by people mishandling the technology are likely to multiply, WPR columnist @RikeFranke writes.
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For the first time since 2006, Palestinians are scheduled to hold legislative elections in November.
But political infighting, Israeli restrictions and nearly three years of war are stacking the odds against the vote, Elfadil Ibrahim writes.
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At the U.N. this week, Donald Trump raised the prospect of annihilating Iran’s Islamic Republic, denied U.S. munitions shortages and dismissed global warming and AI in one sentence.
None of it shocks the way it once would have, @FridaGhitis writes.
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For WPR’s 20th anniversary, we’re revisiting Liam Taylor’s analysis: The reforms African governments adopted in the 1980s sidelined the state and industrial policy—part of the reason the continent remains so vulnerable to external shocks.
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NEW: Rebels from Ethiopia’s Tigray region launched a major offensive against the federal government Wednesday, seizing airports and effectively breaking the 2022 peace deal that ended a war that killed around 600,000 people.
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Brazil’s Banco Master scandal hits Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro directly, over roughly $12 million from its founder for a film on his father, and President Lula indirectly, by implicating a Supreme Court justice central to Lula’s narrative.
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“Voters in most countries decide their votes based on the economy, security, or local corruption concerns. Hypothetical sovereignty disputes can rally attention, but they won’t change the mind of a voter who can’t find a job or can’t afford their weekly grocery bill.”
Argentine President Javier Milei’s sudden turn into a Malvinas hawk says more about his stalled economy at home than about any viable claim to the Falkland Islands, columnist James Bosworth (@bloggingsbyboz) writes.
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With AI, humans risk becoming the source of the error rather than the firewall against it, WPR columnist @RikeFranke writes.
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Germany’s leader is pressing ahead with the reform agenda he set in 2025 despite a run of state election defeats to the far right.
Will the months ahead deliver the reset he is banking on, or is this the beginning of the end of his chancellorship?
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A U.N. resolution on world maps, a push to expand the Outer Space Treaty and resignations by alarmed AI leaders have little to do with one another. Each marks a shift in how humanity understands its relationship to the planet, @charlicarpenter writes.
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A debt crisis across Africa could be an opportunity to chart a new economic course—one that breaks with the free-market model many governments adopted in the 1980s, Liam Taylor writes in a piece we’re highlighting for WPR’s 20th anniversary.
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