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The Judge Orban Removed With a Constitutional Amendment Is Now President of Hungary

They abolished his post with a transitional clause, then introduced a requirement tailored so that only he could not meet...

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Death Sentence for Assad in Absentia: the First Verdict Came a Year and a Half After the Fall, and the Convicted Man Is Not in the Country

A Damascus court sentenced Bashar al-Assad to death for war crimes. A verdict handed down in absentia is a document,...

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90 Billion Euros for Ukraine Is Approved, but Nobody Knows Who Owes It: the Mechanism Is Being Built While the Car Is Already Moving

The Union approved the amount, and there is still no document setting out how much falls on each member state....

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Georgia Repeated the One Sentence That Costs Nothing: No Relations With Moscow While Abkhazia and South Ossetia Are Recognised

Eighteen years without diplomatic relations and hope in political changes nobody specifies. Frozen conflicts do not get resolved, people get...

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Head of Libya's Military Intelligence Killed by a Bomb in His Own Car in Benghazi

The man who knew the names, the connections and the money of one side in a divided Libya has been...

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A Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake Shook Colombia: 111 Dead, and the Buildings Come Down in a Second

The footage from Pereira showing a building collapse to its foundations in an instant raises the question that follows every...

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Waiting Times at European Airports Have Doubled: The Two-Hour Queue in Frankfurt Is Our Queue

The EU's new system requires biometrics from everyone who isn't a Union citizen. With a Macedonian passport, that means you...

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Trump Boarded Air Force One in Front of the Cameras, Then Was Driven Away in a Food Delivery Vehicle

Because of an Iranian assassination threat, the presidential plane took off as a decoy - with the journalists inside and...

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The "Hunger Stones" Have Surfaced in the Rhine and the Elbe: Over Twenty Dates Carved Across Three Centuries, the Last One 2018

People in the seventeenth century carved dates into river stones to warn whoever came after them. The Germans have a...

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Iran named its price for Hormuz, Trump says it does not matter much to him

Tehran wants the blockade lifted, US forces withdrawn and sanctions erased. Washington answers with a chess metaphor - while a...

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Taiwan will deliberately slow down its own internet to see what breaks

Not a fault and not an attack - an exercise. While the army simulates a Chinese landing, the authorities are...

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The Sultan of Brunei stripped his daughter-in-law of every title with a single decree: no reasoning, no appeal

Eleven years after he personally blessed her at a wedding that lasted ten days, the same man returned her to...

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