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Idlib to Bamako: The Real Differences in Jihadist Power
Africa’s jihadist groups are gaining territory and pressure, but they still lack the cohesion, legitimacy, and state collapse that made HTS’s seizure of Damascus possible.
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Foreign Drones Escalate Sudan’s Civil War
Three years in, drones from contested supply chains have usurped past combat methods to act as the ultimate driver of Sudan's civilian casualties.
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France Returns Colonial Art, and Nazi-Looted Works Too
France confronts two legacies of stolen art as new restitution laws ease colonial returns and the Musée d’Orsay spotlights Nazi-looted works still awaiting heirs.
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Thousands March Against East London’s Igbo King
A ceremonial king's crown in a South African port city left cars burning, a country apologising, and a lesson on diaspora politics.
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The Global South is Abandoning the Aid Model
As donor budgets dry up and military spending soars, the emerging South is forging a new path of economic parity, leaving Western-led development in its wake.
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Ageing Societies Slow Science’s Edge
Ageing societies do not only strain pensions and healthcare. They may also make science less bold, less disruptive, and more incremental over time.
Strategic Autonomy: How the UAE Chose to Self-Arm
Under real Iranian missile fire, the UAE learned that state security cannot be outsourced, and it has kicked off the Gulf's most ambitious arms build-up.
Idlib to Bamako: The Real Differences in Jihadist Power
Africa’s jihadist groups are gaining territory and pressure, but they still lack the cohesion, legitimacy, and state collapse that made HTS’s seizure of Damascus possible.
British Safety Laws: Chat Control to Crowd Control
Britain's child safety legislation is quietly turning into a tool against digitally-triggered communal violence, with big implications for privacy and power.
France’s Trust Crisis Moves Upward
Three stories in a single week, a murdered child, a pop icon charged with rape, and a former mayor appealing his blackmail conviction, are not the same scandal but they are feeding the same mood in France.
