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Experts react: Muqtada al-Sadr withdraws from politics. What’s next for Iraq amid a deep political rupture?

Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced he would resign from Iraqi politics on August 29, prompting his followers to storm government palaces in response and sparking fears that violence could erupt in a country already beset by its worst political crisis in years. Iraq’s military announced a nationwide curfew and the …

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Afrique-France : Emmanuel Macron appelle à « assumer la stratégie d’influence » face à Moscou

Le président français a demandé aux diplomates de riposter face aux attaques virales que subit la France sur les réseaux sociaux, notamment en Afrique. Emmanuel Macron a exhorté jeudi les diplomates français à être « plus réactifs » sur les réseaux sociaux pour mieux riposter aux attaques visant à discréditer …

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Is Russia’s Economy on the Brink?

Moscow’s Struggle to Sustain Its War in Ukraine In April, just weeks after he launched the invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin maintained that the West could never strangle Russia’s economy. The barrage of American and European sanctions had not succeeded and would not succeed in bringing his country …

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