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Orbán’s EU Agenda Follows Populist Script

The image of the inward-looking populist who rejects international cooperation is inaccurate. On the contrary, populists engage quite actively in regional and international organizations, and the leadership of these organizations and their member states do not yet know how to respond to the populist challenge. In a new book, researchers …

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Le Hamas, premier parti israélien?

En 2005, le retrait de Gaza et l’espoir d’un règlement pacifique du conflit israélo-palestinien qu’il a suscité ont permis pour la dernière fois à une majorité modérée d’arriver au pouvoir en Israël. Mais la prise du pouvoir par le parti islamiste à Gaza a transformé ce territoire en usine de …

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Eritrea blames the US for ‘destablisation’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Eritrea’s foreign minister accuses Biden administration of ‘stoking further conflict and destabilisation’ in Ethiopia’s north. Eritrea’s foreign minister has blamed US administrations that supported the Tigray People’s Liberation Movement (TPLF) for the last 20 years for the current conflict in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, adding that blaming Eritrea for the …

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US air defenses shoot down drones near Iraq air base

Drones were intercepted and brought down near the air base that hosts US forces. US air defense systems shot down two drones near Ayn al-Asad air base shortly after midnight on Sunday, Iraq’s military said. The encroachment, knocked down by US counter-rocket, artillery and mortar systems (C-RAM), is the latest …

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Turkish-backed Syrian armed groups unify forces

The Syrian National Army affiliated with the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army in Aleppo is merging a number of its factions under one group in order to reorganize ranks and prepare for any upcoming battle. The areas controlled by the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the countryside of Aleppo in …

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Islamic State suicide bombing kills two in Libya

The Libyan civil war ended with a cease-fire in October of 2020, and a transitional government is now in power. An Islamic State (IS) suicide bombing left two people dead in Libya on Sunday. The explosion occurred at a checkpoint in the southwest city of Sabha, killing a police officer …

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