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Pakistan has a capital problem. Infrastructure investment can be a solution.
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Fifty years later, the Helsinki process stands as a turning point for human rights in Europe
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Removal of defense minister shows wartime Ukraine is changing
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Russia's war on Ukraine

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Experts react: What the Prigozhin plane crash reveals about Putin, the Wagner Group’s future, and the war in Ukraine

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Experts weigh in on what the mercenary leader’s apparent death will mean for the Russian state and Wagner’s operations abroad.

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Ukraine’s fight against Russian imperialism is Europe’s longest independence struggle

by Peter Dickinson

The war unleashed by Vladimir Putin eighteen months ago is best understood as the latest chapter in a dark saga of Russian imperial aggression against Ukraine that stretches back centuries, writes Peter Dickinson.

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