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Aug 20, 2025
On July 1, USAID was formally dissolved. In Uganda and Congo, that loss of funding has also broken apart communities that relied on it.
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Aug 19, 2025
The book business is booming in Syria: Authors and titles banned during the Assad family's dictatorial rule are now legal and flying off the shelves.
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Aug 18, 2025
Israelis closed businesses, universities, and streets in a massive outpouring of rage and opposition to plans to expand the war against Hamas in Gaza. How much this pressures the government is still uncertain.
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Aug 18, 2025
Since February 2024, the salon has held dozens of free performances. The weekly shows go on despite the risks.
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Aug 17, 2025
European leaders head to the White House after President Donald Trump, following the Alaska summit, drops his Ukraine ceasefire demand to back Russia's conditions for peace.
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Aug 14, 2025
President Vladimir Putin's stance on peace in Ukraine could disrupt his summit with Donald Trump, but no one knows the U.S. president's thoughts.
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Aug 14, 2025
The budding U.S.-Pakistan friendship marks a seismic diplomatic shift in South Asia. But lingering distrust toward the American security establishment will color their cooperation.
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Aug 14, 2025
Allies are pressing President Trump to draw up a clear plan for his summit with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine's future, rather than just see what happens.
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Aug 14, 2025
What Moscow's summer blitz tells us about the irreversible evolution of modern war as inexpensive drones bring the front line directly to the Ukrainian people.
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Aug 13, 2025
Israel is seeing a groundswell of protest against the war in Gaza. Following the government's decision to send ground forces into Gaza City, a new women's group, including mothers of combat soldiers, set up a protest camp on the border.
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Aug 13, 2025
Palestinians in Gaza City fear that Israel's planned offensive against their town may force them from their homes forever. They say they are exhausted by war.
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Aug 13, 2025
Niall Harbison is leveraging his large following on social media to help canines in South Asia.
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Aug 12, 2025
With cutting-edge, open-source models like DeepSeek, Beijing is narrowing the AI innovation gap with the United States.
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Aug 12, 2025
French lawmakers are pumping the brakes on an industry they say has gotten out of control.
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Aug 12, 2025
In Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine, a battle is on over national identity. Russia wants Ukrainians to feel Russian, and teens are the front line.
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Aug 11, 2025
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces is using kidnappings to help fund its war efforts and, in the process, unleashing terror on Darfur's civilians.
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Aug 10, 2025
London police said 532 people were arrested Saturday when supporters of a pro-Palestinian group recently outlawed as a terrorist organization intentionally broke the law to test the government's ability to enforce the ban.
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Aug 10, 2025
Working-class voters are flocking to Reform UK, a new MAGA-like political party that is disrupting the old guard of Labour and Conservatives.
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Aug 09, 2025
The measure covers Haiti's West, Artibonite, and Center departments to "fight against insecurity and respond to the agricultural and food crisis," a government statement says.
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Aug 08, 2025
Indian comics have faced police complaints and even death threats over sets that anger right-wing vigilante groups.
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Aug 08, 2025
Israel's security cabinet decides to expand Gaza War in bid to destroy Hamas
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Aug 07, 2025
As Prime Minister, Italian far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has worked closely with moderate neighbors. Is she a model for other far-right politicians?
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Aug 07, 2025
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan are visiting the White House in hopes of a peace deal. As power in the region shifts, the U.S. could be key.
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Aug 07, 2025
Mykolaiv, a port in Ukraine, was a major naval shipyard since the Russian Empire. Russian control of a narrow sandbar nearby has silenced the docks.
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Aug 06, 2025
As the nonproliferation movement enters a tenuous new era, Japan's firsthand experience with nuclear warfare is crucial in the fight for a nuclear-free world.
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Aug 06, 2025
It has been illegal to swim in the Seine in Paris for a century. Now, it's clean enough to allow bathing in three pools. Our correspondent takes a dip.
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Aug 06, 2025
Project Resource Optimization is connecting formerly US-funded aid projects - including one providing clean water in Nigeria - to new donors.
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Aug 05, 2025
The residents of a La Palma town destroyed in a volcanic eruption, like people worldwide displaced by disasters, must redefine notions of "home."
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Aug 05, 2025
Progress roundup: Malta brings free period products to schools, a study in Kenya and Senegal finds women's decision-making superior to men's, and more.
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Aug 04, 2025
Humanitarian professionals say famine can be averted in Gaza, but only if Israel allows much more food and other aid into the strip.
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Aug 04, 2025
Students in Hardwick, Massachusetts, are playing a crucial role in a long-running conservation program.
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Aug 01, 2025
For years, Arab states wanted Europe to recognize Palestine; Europe wanted Arab states to rein in Hamas. Now, they have stepped forward together to do something hard for each.
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Aug 01, 2025
In one of Asia's fastest growing economies, millions of young people out of work. The crisis is fueling distrust and frustration with the government.
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Aug 01, 2025
Kharkiv, one of Europe's great cultural centers, is regularly pummeled by Russian strikes. Yet its bomb-shelter national opera house serves as a beacon of stubborn faith.
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Aug 01, 2025
Europeans have been pushing back on overtourism. For many, especially in places like Barcelona, the issue is not just crowds but also pollution. Is there a way for port cities to have needed cruise dollars and cleaner air?
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Jul 31, 2025
Exiled from their country by civil war, Sudanese mothers in Egypt are refusing to subject their daughters to female genital mutilation (FGM).
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Jul 31, 2025
The world is unifying around the question of Palestinian statehood, diverging from the U.S. and Israel. Will it make a difference? Not since the mid-1950s has a U.S. president held such sway over Israel.
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Jul 30, 2025
The hunger crisis in Gaza has many asking if Israel had a deliberate policy of starving civilians. Israelis say that was never the case, but an ignorance of Palestinian suffering allowed an inconsistent government policy to lead to a calamity.
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Jul 30, 2025
Finland has ranked the world's happiest country for years. But Finnish happiness isn't about joy. It's based on unusual contentment and reassuredness.
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Jul 29, 2025
Many Europeans feel they came out on the losing end of the new U.S.-EU trade deal. Analysts say it needs to be understood within Mr. Trump's broader relationship with Europe.
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Jul 29, 2025
Many Europeans feel they came out on the losing end of the new U.S.-EU trade deal. Analysts say it needs to be understood within Mr. Trump's broader relationship with Europe.
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Jul 29, 2025
Inflation in Argentina hit a five year low in May. But Argentines say they don't feel that reflected in their day-to-day consumption.
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Jul 29, 2025
Nonprofit groups and throngs of volunteers acting on their own have played a key role in aiding disaster victims in this temblor-prone country.
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Jul 28, 2025
The ceasefire reached between Thailand and Cambodia on Monday could help hundreds of thousands of displaced people return home - but it will not end the countries' long-simmering border dispute, or address the troubling precedents set during the latest bout of fighting.
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Jul 28, 2025
One of the biggest challenges to rebuilding Syria may prove to be environmental. Years of drought are causing crop yields to fall dramatically.
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Jul 27, 2025
As the Cambodia-Thailand border conflict enters its fourth day, monks, dancers, and civilians offer shelter, food, and aid to those over 168,000 people displaced.
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Jul 26, 2025
Taiwanese voters rejected a large-scale effort to recall opposition lawmakers from the Nationalist Party (KMT), dealing a blow to the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The recall aimed to shift legislative power but failed to remove any KMT lawmakers.
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Jul 25, 2025
Our correspondent in Gaza has been covering hunger for months. But this week the world seems to be paying attention in a new way - including media outlets worried about starvation of their staff.
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Jul 25, 2025
Progress roundup: A $56 million purchase doubles the Yurok tribe's holdings along the Klamath River, and Shanghai bus riders create new routes.
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Jul 25, 2025
The eruption of violence in the majority-Druze Syrian province of Suwayda, the second-worst outbreak of sectarian strife since the fall of the Assad regime, is challenging the delicate balance the young Damascus government is trying to maintain.
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Jul 24, 2025
Amid sectarian violence in Syria in which hundreds of Druze were killed, Israel struck Damascus and issued a warning to the new government. Israeli Druze are mourning the deaths, but are divided over whether Israeli military action is the wisest course.
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Jul 24, 2025
Lesotho faces one of the highest tariff threats lodged by the Trump administration. No one in the tiny African nation can figure out why.
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Jul 24, 2025
The populist surge on the right is a familiar electoral feature across the West. Gains by the far right in Japan show its global appeal.
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Jul 22, 2025
A key challenge for postwar Syria is building trust between Arabs and Kurds. The security in Kurdish parts of Aleppo show how difficult that may be.
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Jul 22, 2025
USAID funding helped nurture new independent media outlets in Ukraine to play their part in strengthening democracy. Now there are concerns about a return to the days of media dominated by oligarchs, political parties, and the state.
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Jul 22, 2025
The efforts of two Kashmiri content creators represent a quiet resurgence for the Kashmiri language.
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Jul 21, 2025
Guatemala elected an anti-graft president in 2023. But the slow pace of change has disappointed many supporters.
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Jul 21, 2025
A century ago, colonial borders divided the Borgu people between Benin and Nigeria. Today, soccer is reuniting them.
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Jul 20, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened Russia with tariffs unless a peace deal is reached within 50 days, but Russia says achieving its goals in Ukraine remains a priority.
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Jul 19, 2025
South Korea's former President Yoon Suk Yeol faces new criminal charges for abusing power and fabricating documents related to his martial law declaration.
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Jul 18, 2025
National security in Finland is a society-wide effort that goes beyond the military. Under the shadow of Russian aggression, Europe is taking a look.
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Jul 18, 2025
Japan's ongoing rice shortage is bringing greater awareness to farmers' issues, and greater scrutiny to the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, ahead of critical parliamentary elections.
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Jul 17, 2025
The breakdown in public order in Gaza accompanying the weakening of Hamas has allowed armed gangs to seize influence. That is affecting distribution of badly needed food aid, but the perpetuation of disorder is another concern.
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Jul 17, 2025
Live Aid raised over $150 million in 1985 for starving people in Ethiopia. Citizens around the world today focus more on issues closer to home. At what cost?
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Jul 16, 2025
Armenia's government is facing off against its ancient church as the former tries to sign a peace deal with the country's long-time enemy Azerbaijan.
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Jul 16, 2025
Gentrification has sparked anger at foreigners in Mexico City, prompting residents and activists to look for creative ways to build an inclusive city.
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Jul 16, 2025
A transformative program in western Massachusetts helps young people learn the value of stewarding the land, while also taking joy in conservation.
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Jul 16, 2025
In Kenya, American aid workers fired during the Trump administration's purge of USAID ask themselves: What comes next?
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Jul 15, 2025
Germany's railways, once an exemplar of national timeliness, are now chronically late to the point of it being a national crisis. What happened?
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Jul 15, 2025
Thousands of tourists are flocking to visit South Korea's version of the White House before it closes to the public, stirring debate around the proper use of such buildings.
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Jul 14, 2025
With Ukraine's air defense systems overwhelmed by a surge of Russian attacks, mobile antidrone teams have emerged as an indispensable - if insufficient - defensive line against the onslaught.
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Jul 11, 2025
Rebuilding Syria is proving a potentially lethal task, as streets and farmland are seeded with unexploded land mines - with children and civilians in harm's way.
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Jul 11, 2025
Ukrainians aren't entirely sure why Russia has been targeting Kharkiv's dairies. But over the last three years the region, Ukraine's third-largest producer of milk in 2021, has lost half its herd of 33,000 cows.
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Jul 11, 2025
Many Western democracies are worried about far-right parties' popularity. But some are finding that letting them into government actually brings them back to earth.
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Jul 10, 2025
Tariffs have become central to President Trump's foreign policy playbook. But in his Brazil tariff threat, is he conflating his own personal interests with those of the United States?
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Jul 10, 2025
Benjamin Netanyahu has long sold himself to the Israeli public as "Mr. Security," but Hamas' devastating Oct. 7 attack stained his record. Now he's hoping the war with Iran has rehabilitated his image.
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Jul 10, 2025
Trump promised to be the president to end all wars. But that pledge depends on convincing Israel and Russia that military force alone will never prevail.
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Jul 09, 2025
With climate change thawing the Arctic, Canada is boosting security by spending on both military and northern communities to bolster regional safety.
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Jul 09, 2025
Throughout the Gaza war, Israeli buffer zones have expanded through a series of evacuation orders. While the orders are often framed as security precautions, for many Palestinians they appear part of a slow-motion land grab.
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Jul 08, 2025
The world has a fascination with Mount Everest - one that brings both money and destruction to Nepal's Himalayan region. Now, long-awaited regulations could transform how the mountain operates.
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Jul 07, 2025
As Trump doles out tariffs and moves away from global climate pacts, Brazil's Lula is ready to step into the spotlight with his vision for international cooperation.
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Jul 07, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump will meet to discuss Middle East tensions and celebrate their progress in Iran, including the strikes on nuclear facilities. Questions remain on how Mr. Trump plans to push for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Jul 07, 2025
Progress roundup: Science reveals how rice crops can resist heat for better yields and quality, and how building codes work against hurricanes.
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Jul 07, 2025
European nations have pledged more NATO funding partly through a novel redefinition of "defense." Is it gimmickry or a more holistic approach to security?
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Jul 04, 2025
Russia launched 550 drones and missiles across Ukraine overnight in the largest aerial assault since the war began. Hours after the barrage, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he talked with U.S. President Donald Trump about the attack.
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Jul 03, 2025
Villagers in south Lebanon, hit last year by Israeli strikes on Hezbollah, find new meaning in the observance of the Shia mourning period of Ashoura.
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Jul 03, 2025
Will U.S. bombs deter Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, or persuade it that only a nuclear weapon will deter more U.S. bombs?
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Jul 03, 2025
Israel's military success in Iran has spurred hopes that the Jewish state might take more daring steps toward peace in Gaza.
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Jul 02, 2025
Europe is not built for the heat. It's all that residents like the Monitor's Paris correspondent can do to find ways to keep just a little bit cooler.
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Jul 01, 2025
Thailand's prime minister has been suspended over her handling of a border conflict with Cambodia, raising concerns about a potential return to military rule.
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Jul 01, 2025
Finland is withdrawing from an international treaty banning land mines, putting its fear of neighboring Russia above its commitment to humanitarian law.
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Jul 01, 2025
Haitians are facing historic levels of deportation from the Dominican Republic, an easy domestic political win. Can new voices shift the conversation?
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Jul 01, 2025
The nonprofit Rozan was set up in 1998 with the goal of eradicating domestic violence from Pakistani society.
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Jun 30, 2025
A refuge for African asylum-seekers in a small Spanish town illustrates the difficulties of integrating immigrants, but some newcomers are fitting in.
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Jun 30, 2025
Still recovering from the worst hunger crisis in living memory, a community in Sudan's Nuba Mountains gathers to celebrate a marriage.
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Jun 30, 2025
Progress roundup: Science enables Brazil to transform its economy, German researchers to find a microbe that makes detergent, and California to filter PFAS.
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Jun 29, 2025
The strikes targeted several regions, including western Ukraine, far from the front lines. Officials confirmed three deaths and said another two died in Russian shelling.
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Jun 27, 2025
When is an airline more than an airline? When it's a source of civic pride like the homegrown Air North, in the Canadian territory of Yukon.
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Jun 27, 2025
Iranian expats in Europe are torn over the conflict between Iran and Israel. While they despise Iran's regime, they fear for loved ones back home.
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Jun 27, 2025
Donald Trump says Iran's nuclear site was destroyed, but early intelligence reports say otherwise. The key to understanding what is left is determining where Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium is and the state of the centrifuges that enrich the fuel.
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