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As for Hezbollah, Israel has managed to successfully assassinate most of its leadership and substantially damage its ...

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Lorenzo D’Agostino is a Barcelona-based journalist covering migration on Europe’s southern border. Deploying ‘anti-mafia’ tactics against migrants and those standing in solidarity with them is solving ...

Now, perpetrators are criminalised and brought to justice, which itself acts as a deterrent. This is a win for survivors, reduces the risks faced by potential victims, helps reduce HIV, STIs and ...

Constitutional upheavals are rare but in Georgia, they come repeatedly (1992, 2003, and as of this week, now 2024). We might even call them revolutions, not ideologically, but in the broad sense ...