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List of Dispatch articles
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A rainbow stretches across a partly cloudy sky outside a large building in the venue for COP30. Small groups of people mill about on the plaza beneath the rainbow. Brazil Tries to Keep Climate Cooperation Alive
At COP30, the global energy transition is moving forward without the United States.
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Two men hold up clear boxes. One looks through the box, another tilts it on its side. In front of them is a dais with a microphone. Behind them red drapes. Sharaa’s Democratic Test
The Syrian president, who visits the White House on Monday, just oversaw his first election.
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A woman with a scarf on her head sits on the ground holding a black sheep. Behind her white sheep are scattered on a grassy, rocky mountainside. The Women Carrying Water—and the World
The complicated life of women struggling with climate change—and cultural change—in Kashmir’s mountains.
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Road signs for Słubice with a red line through it and a blue sign with Polish writing. A metal overhang is seen above with a bridge and buildings in the distance. A Bridge Divided
Do expanding internal border controls within the Schengen zone compromise the European project?
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A protester in a keffiyah waves a flag next to an Italian statue with a broken nose. Europe’s Unlikely Capital of the Palestinian Solidarity Movement
How Naples became a bastion of pro-Palestinian activism on the continent.
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A woman wearing a black headscarf holds up a weapon as she stands next to a large portrait of Nasrallah. Inside Lebanon’s Audacious Disarmament Plan
The state faces a stark choice to confront groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas or risk another war with Israel.
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Two men walk on a road toward the camera, surrounded by cars, with a low hospital building in the background. A sign hanging over the building's roof reads "Mogadishu Somali Turkiye Recep Tay Yip Erdogan." Turkish Drones Are Fueling a Somali Shadow War
Ankara’s stealth takeover suits its geopolitical interests but has ruined many civilian lives.
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A man, seen from the waist down, holds a gun at his side. Behind him is a gate and a four-story building and street. On Syria’s Coast, Alawite Communities Wait for Justice
Rights advocates say the lack of accountability for massacres in March could have profound consequences.
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A man in sunglasses stands in front of a Tesla on a street with powerlines and buildings behind him. Iraqi Kurdistan’s EV Revolution
Electric cars were a punchline here just a few years ago. Thanks to Chinese companies, that’s not the case anymore.
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In front of high-rise apartment blocks is a jumble of discarded white good appliances. Israel Is Orchestrating an Economic Collapse in the West Bank
Job losses are only one factor in the equation driving its financial decline.
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A person walks by a wall with graffiti that shows Le Pen and Trump, along with the words "PRIDE IN Prejudice." The French Far Right’s Awkward Dance Around Trump
Why Le Pen’s National Rally is distancing itself from the U.S. Republican Party.
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Soldiers and civilians walk past a destroyed building. Are Scam Compounds the Real Cause of Thailand-Cambodia Fighting?
Intense strikes targeted “pig butchering” syndicates on the border.
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A man and child hold hands as they walk along rubble- and grass-covered railroad tracks. Palm trees and power lines frame the scene. From Berlin to Baghdad on the Ruins of a WWI Railway
The unfinished line traces a fractured region still beset by competing imperial projects.
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A large column looms over a small person standing atop a large field of rubble holding up a phone to take a photo. Life Returns to Palmyra
After more than a decade of exile, locals are finally coming home.
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A tourist leans against a sign that reads "Welcome to the People's Temple Jonestown" as two people take photos of them. The sign arches over a muddy dirt road with dense trees and brush on either side. After Chernobyl, Jonestown?
Guyana taps into the dark tourism trend by opening the site where cult members purportedly drank the Kool-Aid.
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