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At a Marian shrine where football supporters gather to pray, a presidential call for “Poland without illegal immigrants” turned a devotional event into a political stage.
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The African Development Bank has installed a president with ingrained Gulf experience as Washington pulls back hundreds of millions
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Alps Without Snow: Winter Tourism Tries Reinvention
As Grandvalira in the Pyrenees postponed its late-November 2024 opening until mid-December, warm temperatures left slopes across France, Austria and Spain grassy well into the month, forcing managers to watch thermometers anxiously.
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Foreign Groups Launch Multi-Front AI Attack Against France
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As the war in Ukraine drags on with the third anniversary looming this month, H.E. Dmytro Senik and I discuss Ukraine's relationship with the UAE, the GCC, and the Russia-Iran axis.
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Digital Bridges: Austria and the UAE
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AfDB Turns to Gulf as Western Funders Step Back
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Why is Somaliland Strategically Important to the United States?
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Starlink, Grok and the Price of Private Infrastructure
As UK regulator Ofcom launched a formal investigation into X on 12 January 2026 over Grok's generation of sexualised deepfakes, including images of children, the case exposed how everyday life runs on systems voters never designed.
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Who Painted First? The Illusion of Origins in Europe’s Oldest Cave Art
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Twenty-Five Years Later: Arms Fire A Shadow Over Balkans
Montenegro mass shooting highlights gun violence crisis in the Balkans, rooted in wartime legacy and illicit arms. Stricter laws proposed.
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Seventy years after Toussaint Rouge, the War of Independence remains a powerful symbol of anti-colonial resistance.
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Mudejar Ruins in Spain: Brickwork on the Edge
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Poland’s Catholic Football Pilgrimage: Unity, Faith and a Hard Line on Migration
At a Marian shrine where football supporters gather to pray, a presidential call for “Poland without illegal immigrants” turned a devotional event into a political stage.
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As Grandvalira in the Pyrenees postponed its late-November 2024 opening until mid-December, warm temperatures left slopes across France, Austria and Spain grassy well into the month, forcing managers to watch thermometers anxiously.
Kawthoolei Republic: Italy’s CasaPound Export Radical Dreams to Myanmar
In Myanmar’s remote hills, a rogue general and his Italian allies are forging a sovereign state on a harvest of ideas Rome would not permit at home.
Britain Navigates a Growing Trade Imbalance with China
As its trade gap with Beijing hits £42 billion, London is pursuing a growth strategy that increasingly tests the enduring strategic patience of Washington.
Winter Storm Research Rewrites a Witch Trial Tragedy
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Abu Dhabi Rebuffs British Universities Over Campus Radicalisation
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Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on the Italy’s Winter Games
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Starlink, Grok and the Price of Private Infrastructure
As UK regulator Ofcom launched a formal investigation into X on 12 January 2026 over Grok's generation of sexualised deepfakes, including images of children, the case exposed how everyday life runs on systems voters never designed.
BUSINESS
Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on the Italy’s Winter Games
Cloudflare quits Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics security after Italy fine, sparking US-EU clash over piracy laws and censorship
EUROPE
Mudejar Ruins in Spain: Brickwork on the Edge
At 8:00 on Monday morning, a wall of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Muriel de Zapardiel collapsed, sending 12th-century Romanesque-Mudejar brick crashing onto the ground and turning a quiet Valladolid village into the latest symbol of Spain's heritage crisis.
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As the war in Ukraine drags on with the third anniversary looming this month, H.E. Dmytro Senik and I discuss Ukraine's relationship with the UAE, the GCC, and the Russia-Iran axis.
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