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Intellectual Exodus: American Brains Arrive on the Continent

Europe courts top American scientists fleeing political pressure, as the Netherlands and France launch academic freedom initiatives.

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Phoney War: Gulf Deployment and Collapsed Talks

With Trump's envoys recalled and three carrier groups looming off the coast, the diplomatic pause masks a global rush to prepare for a potential summer war.

Mali Crisis: Patchwork Insurgency Challenges Sahel Confederation

A former musician's alliance with rebels dismantles a fragile security pact, fulfilling the final, chaotic legacy of Muammar al-Gaddafi in Mali.

Homer in a Mummy Rewrites Cultural Borders

This week's discovery of Homer's Iliad inside an Egyptian mummy has reopened an old truth: classical culture was never as neatly Greek as modern Europe likes to pretend.

Pacifists Buy Missiles: Bern and Tokyo After Hormuz

The world's oldest armed neutrality and its most famous pacifist constitution broke in the same month.

On the River Danube: Magyar’s Opening Move

Péter Magyar won Hungary's April election promising a break with the past. His first foreign policy pitch was to resurrect a part of it.