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Learning from Failed Peace Efforts in Afghanistan

The United States should be applying lessons for when and how to negotiate with adversaries to other conflicts — starting with Ukraine. Over the course of 20 years, the United States made strategic mistakes in its war with the Taliban that helped fuel the insurgency and likely precluded an earlier …

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Leak Unveils Russian Oligarch Abramovich’s $1 Billion Art Collection. Despite Sanctions, It Has Not Been Seized or Frozen.

Documents leaked from Cyprus show that, just before Russia invaded Ukraine and Abramovich was sanctioned last year, the billionaire passed the massive collection to his ex-wife. Abramovich and his ex-wife, Dasha Zhukova, amassed a collection of hundreds of pieces of prestigious modern art, valued at $963 million in 2018.After warnings …

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Investigators worldwide continue to open ‘Pandora’s Box’ to pursue criminals identified in Pandora Papers two years after ICIJ’s landmark investigation

The Pandora Papers exposed the financial secrets of powerful people in more than 100 countries, leading to a worldwide crackdown on tax dodgers, money launderers and the white-collar professionals who enable them. From India to Germany, Peru, the U.K. and beyond, two years after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists …

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Iran’s unification of the arenas campaign against Israel: Foundations and prospects

Seventy-five years since the establishment of the Jewish state, Israel has found itself facing a relentless, unprecedentedly severe political crisis with profound national security implications exacerbated by separate regional developments. Domestically, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reforms prompted multiple weeks-long waves of massive street protests, to the extent that former …

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