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Viktor Orban Has Gone From Outlier to Precursor

It’s perhaps a sign of the times that a visit to Hungary by an American television personality known for his provocations on race and immigration has generated international news coverage. But the visit by Tucker Carlson—whose Fox News program has become a clearinghouse of far-right talking points, and misinformation, in …

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The U.N. Refugee Convention Is Under Pressure—and Showing Its Age

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations Refugee Convention, one of the signal moral advances in human history. Negotiated in the wake of World War II and initially limited to Europe, the treaty established the first binding legal protections for individuals forced to flee their countries. These …

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In First Call to Western Leader, Raisi Asks Macron to Secure Iran’s Nuclear ‘Rights’

French President Macron, for his part, called on Iran’s new president to ‘quickly resume’ stalled negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal In his first phone call to a Western leader, the new president of Iran asked his French counterpart Monday to help secure Iran’s “rights” in now-stalled talks to …

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