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A Battered Hezbollah Is Fighting a War It Never Wanted
Oct 28, 2024 — A Hezbollah statement declared that the attack was a gesture of support for the group’s Palestinian ally Hamas. It was the opening salvo in what was to become a sustained effort to try and ...
Egypt Is Showing Up in East Africa a Decade Too Late | WPR
Oct 31, 2024 — With Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD, on the Blue Nile having become a fait accompli, Egypt had already been feeling the need to step up its presence in the Horn of Africa ...
The Coda to Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Movement | WPR
Sep 26, 2024 — A Hong Kong judge sentenced former Stand News editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen to 21 months in prison and his successor, Patrick Lam, to the time he had already served, due to Lam’s poor health ...
Russia and North Korea May Make the War in Ukraine Go Global
Nov 1, 2024 — To be clear, ever since Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine over two and a half years ago, involvement in that war has not been limited to the two primary belligerents. The United ...
Declining Democracy Could Affect Southeast Asia’s Economy | WPR
Aug 9, 2023 — The Philippines’ democracy remained strong in the wake of its 1980s “People Power” movement that toppled the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. And countries from Malaysia to Cambodia were ...
Nigeria Can’t Afford Tinubu’s ‘Politics as Usual’ | WPR
Oct 4, 2024 — Independence Days are usually occasions for celebration, but many Nigerians marked the 64th anniversary of the country’s independence from the U.K. on Oct. 1 with protests. For others, including ...
Why Israel’s Military Successes Will Be Hollow | WPR
Oct 9, 2024 — During the 1970s as well as the early 2020s, these tensions became intertwined with wider conflict dynamics in the Middle East in ways that bolstered the position of hawks within the Israeli ...
A Nobel Peace Prize to Reinvigorate the Nuclear Taboo
Oct 11, 2024 — Nihon Hidankyo’s Co-Chairperson Mimaki Toshiyuki attends a press conference after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in Hiroshima City, Oct. 11, 2024 (Photo from the Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images).
The U.S. Election Offers a Stark Choice on Climate Change | WPR
Oct 3, 2024 — The U.S. Election Is a Choice Between Climate Action and Retreat. Martha Molfetas Oct 3, 2024. Staff watch a presidential debate between Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala ...