Category: Politics
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The USS George Washington is heading to the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln, deployed more than 250 days with no port call in 200. What that does to a crew, and what the swap signals.
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A former senior executive of the Southern Poverty Law Center has been charged over payments to informants inside extremist groups — the first individual charged in a case the organisation says is politically motivated. Nothing has yet been tested in court.
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Trump announced on 12 August that Karoline Leavitt, the youngest White House press secretary in history, will leave at the end of the month. No successor has been named, with under three months to the midterms.
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Speaking aboard a warship during Pacific Fleet exercises, Vladimir Putin said Russia would respond in kind if European states begin confiscating Russian vessels and selling their cargo — and that the response would not be limited to the waters where seizures happen.
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Primaries were held in several US states this week. What a primary actually decides, why some go to runoffs, and why reading national trends into one state’s result is usually a mistake.
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Princess Haya bint Hussein of Jordan fled Dubai for London in 2019 with her two children. The custody battle that followed produced findings of intimidation, a phone-hacking ruling involving Pegasus spyware, and the largest financial award ever made by an English divorce court.
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Russia’s Supreme Court has barred the liberal Yabloko party from September’s election. Why a rival party brought the case, and why excluding a party that can’t win still matters.
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Syria says it will let the IAEA remove nuclear material from a hidden site — while Israel threatens to bomb it again. What safeguards are, and why an undeclared facility matters so much.
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Around ten Malian soldiers killed in a JNIM attack. What the Sahel insurgency is, why attacking army posts is the strategy, and why one of the world’s largest conflicts goes unreported.
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Sindh will hold a judicial commission into the death of Mir Raza Ali. Why a judge rather than the police, what such inquiries can’t do, and the details that reveal whether one is serious.