April, 2025

• 29 April

  Le président de la République serbe de Bosnie défie l’Occident

  

  Les forces politiques de l’UE se heurtent au président de la République serbe de Bosnie (Srpska-RS), Milorad Dodik, qui refuse leur diktat en poursuivant son plan de sécession. Par ailleurs, celui-ci se positionne en faveur de Moscou et dénonce le pouvoir supranational du Haut représentant international en Bosnie-Herzégovine, l’Allemand Christian …

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• 29 April

  The Israeli threat to post-Assad Syria

  

  Analysis: Israel has waged a campaign of destabilisation and destruction in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime. Since Bashar Al-Assad’s regime fell on 8 December 2024, Israel has waged a campaign of destabilisation and destruction in Syria. While flagrantly violating international law and disregarding Syria’s sovereignty, Israel has …

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• 29 April

  How Gulf support could shape post-Assad Syria

  

  Syria’s government has spent the past few months putting much diplomatic energy into strengthening its relationships with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members. The leadership in Damascus sees the oil- and gas-rich Gulf Arab states as extremely important to Syria’s future. The high-profile visits paid by President Ahmed al-Sharaa and …

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• 29 April

  Israel’s army is facing a crisis of dissent over the Gaza war

  

  Lining the streets of Jerusalem are pictures of Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza in the last 18 months, with the words “Until victory” scrawled across the smiling men in uniform. Juxtaposing these signs are posters reading, “Until the last hostage”, next to the faces of those kidnapped by Hamas on …

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• 29 April

  From the West Bank with Love and Rage

  

  Set in the hills of the West Bank, The Teacher, written and directed by British-Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi, tells the riveting story of Bassem (Saleh Bakri), a Palestinian high school English teacher struggling to inspire his students under the pall of Israel’s occupation. What’s it all for–the studying, the scholarship–if …

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• 29 April

  Three Theses on Trump’s Rule

  

  Preface: Emigre politics When writers go into exile, I read somewhere, they discuss the politics of their former countries more than before they left. I have an image of that in my head – scruffy emigres huddled over coffee and schnapps in a smoke-filled café. Voices are raised, tables are …

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• 29 April

  Suspected chemical blast at Iran’s Bandar Abbas port kills at least 18, injures hundreds

  

  President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered an investigation of the incident and sent to the site his interior minister, who said efforts were continuing to extinguish the fire and prevent it from spreading to other areas, read the report. A huge blast probably caused by the explosion of chemical materials killed at …

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• 29 April

  RESTORING AMERICA’S MARITIME DOMINANCE

  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. The commercial shipbuilding capacity and maritime workforce of the United States has been weakened by decades of Government neglect, leading to the decline …

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• 29 April

  Iran Update, April 25, 2025

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• 29 April

  On Crimea and Russia Sanctions Relief, Congress Has Leverage

  

  President Donald Trump is pressuring Ukraine to accept a peace framework granting Russia significant concessions, including sanctions relief and formal U.S. recognition of Moscow’s illegal annexation of Crimea. Congress, however, need not watch from the sidelines. Lawmakers have the power to shape negotiations toward a durable peace by ensuring applicable …

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