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Turkey’s war of attrition against Syria’s Kurds

Alongside shelling and drones, Turkey is weaponizing water supplies in northeast Syria, turning an already horrible situation into a nightmare A concrete shack pockmarked with bullet holes and with no running water, electricity, windows or doors is what Faslah Hussein Osman, her husband and five children call home. It faces …

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Il confronto tra Biden e Xi

L’incontro virtuale fra Joe Biden e il presidente cinese Xi Jinping non ha prodotto risultati immediati, che d’altra parte nessuno si aspettava. Ma ha permesso di affermare l’unico principio condiviso fra Washington e Pechino: la competizione estrema fra le due superpotenze di oggi può e deve essere gestita. Il rischio …

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Ukraine doesn’t need blankets. It needs weapons

For fear of provoking Putin we have done far too little to help Kiev. Now it faces full-scale invasion Three years ago I stood on the shore of the Sea of Azov at Mariupol, Ukraine’s eastern seaport, and asked the local commander which way the Russians might come if they …

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