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Britain’s ambitious plan to rearm looks underfunded
I F THERE IS one thing that Britain’s political parties agree on, it is that British defences are broken. The armed forces ...
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What Poland’s new hard-right president means for Europe
T HE PRESIDENTIAL election in Poland on June 1st was a distillation of the political choice facing all of Europe these days.
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There is nothing extreme about the Baltic states’ hard-nosed view of Russia, says Latvia’s foreign minister
T HOSE OF US living around the Baltic Sea, more than any other European countries, have the most to gain from a friendly and ...
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An astonishing raid deep inside Russia rewrites the rules of war
A truck pulled in, and drones flew out of it.” From an airbase near Murmansk, in Russia’s far north, came similar stories: ...
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Will the UAE break OPEC?
Big moves, though not big enough to sink oil prices. You might, therefore, think that OPEC + is in total control. After all, ...
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Poland’s presidential election leaves the country exhausted
P OLAND’S PRESIDENTIAL election, which pits a centrist liberal against a hard-right nationalist, has been watched closely all ...
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Poland’s presidential election goes down to the wire
POLAND’S PRESIDENTIAL election, which pits a centrist liberal against a hard-right nationalist, has been watched closely all ...
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China is waking up from its property nightmare
On May 27th the property sold for a stonking 270m yuan ($38m), creating a sensation in the Chinese press. At 500,000 yuan per ...
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