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A Document from 1936 Decides Who Enters the Black Sea: Why NATO Can't and Turkey Can

The Bosphorus is 700 metres wide, and that is precisely why Ankara decides who enters the Black Sea. A 1936...

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An Intern Arrested for Spying at NATO's Military Headquarters: Who Let Her In?

She was interning at SHAPE, the Alliance's most sensitive military headquarters. She became a suspect because she asked odd questions...

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30,000 People at the Ceuta Fence: The Local Government Wants the Army, Madrid Answers With a Clause

Three died trying to swim the final stretch. The border into Ceuta works as strictly as Rabat wants it to...

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Italy Wants Spain Suspended From Schengen: The Fence in Ceuta Was Not Being Guarded at All

Nine died at a border that was under no police supervision at the time. Rome's reaction is not how to...

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Moscow No Longer Demands Pyongyang Disarm: The Partnership Without Limits Just Found Its First Limit

Lavrov said it at a table where China also sits. Beijing spent decades not wanting a nuclear North Korea on...

31 July 2026 Read more →

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172,000 Hectares of Ash: Spain Wants a European Wildfire Centre, and the Balkans Are Again Not on the Map

Sánchez writes to Brussels that the fire spreads „exponentially faster” than any calculation allows. The proposal covers the western Mediterranean...

30 July 2026 Read more →

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The Houthis Are Preparing a Toll for Bab el-Mandeb: Chinese Ships Don't Pay, Everyone Else Does

According to a UN estimate, the informal levy was already bringing them up to 180 million dollars a month. Now...

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The Trial in Which Andrew Is the Victim Postponed to December: The British Court Cites Mental Health

The former prince was due to testify as the man who was attacked. The court decided it can wait another...

30 July 2026 Read more →

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Moscow Pulls Yugoslavia Out of the Drawer Again: 78 Days of Bombing as an Argument Against an Asian NATO

Russia warns of an Asian version of NATO and points to bombed Yugoslavia as its main proof. The argument holds...

29 July 2026 Read more →

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Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake in Kumamoto: 13 Dead, and a Hospital Near the Epicentre Lost Power

Japan has some of the strictest seismic codes in the world. Even so, within hours the hospitals were overwhelmed, and...

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Iran Tightens Its Grip on Hormuz: One Corridor Entirely Ours, Part of the Second Too, Otherwise the Strait Stays Shut

Tehran rejected Oman's fifty-fifty split proposal. A closed chokepoint does not issue a press release, and the effect is felt...

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Prince Andrew's Last Title Hangs by a Thread: the City of London Is Building a Mechanism to Strip It

The legal opinions are already written, the mechanism has to pass before October. Institutions move fast only once every fact...

29 July 2026 Read more →