Dispatch
The view from the ground.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 All Tusk and No Teeth
The appointment of Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, as EU chief is a strong indication of collective intent toward Russian aggression. But will the new Italian foreign policy boss undermine him?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Under New Management
The coast of Honduras could be the site of a radical experiment: one in which foreign investors bankroll a quasi-sovereign city. Backers say it will lift the region out of poverty -- but residents are anything but convinced.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Preparing for War With Ukraine’s Fascist Defenders of Freedom
On the frontlines of the new offensive in eastern Ukraine, the hardcore Azov Battalion is ready for battle with Russia. But they're not fighting for Europe, either.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Dead and the Living in Luhansk
Amid the shells and explosions, there’s little in the way of normal life left in Ukraine’s besieged eastern cities.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 No Place to Heal
South Sudan's hospitals have become targets for both sides in the brutal, ongoing civil war. How can you save lives when doctors and patients are living under the gun?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Pretender to Pakistan’s Throne
Imran Khan's populist protest movement is on the verge of taking down Pakistan's dull, dysfunctional government. How did such a lightweight get so far?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Libya’s New Power Brokers?
As Egypt and the UAE launch airstrikes on Tripoli, a cadre of politicians, militia leaders, and businessmen with links to both countries hopes to take advantage of a popular swell against Libya's Islamists.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 You Can’t Go Home Again
Georgians from the would-be state of Abkhazia have spent decades trying to rebuild their lives after conflict forced them from their homes. But today, the wounds of war still feel fresh.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Save a City From Itself
Nearly a decade after France's suburbs burned for weeks, Paris has an ambitious plan to reinvent itself to rescue its crumbling outskirts. Color the banlieues skeptical.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Not to End a Plague
From thuggish quarantines to botched burials, is the Liberian government’s handling of the Ebola crisis making it worse?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Strangers in the Homeland
Thousands of displaced eastern Ukrainians have headed to the western city of Lviv, where a spirit of generosity could give way to dangerous ethnic tensions.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Intifada Comes to Brooklyn
Can 297 victims of Hamas terrorist attacks in the Second Intifada find justice in a New York court?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Autocrat Inside the EU
How Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban transformed from a dissident compatriot of Vaclav Havel to a would-be Vladimir Putin.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Locked and Loaded Carpenters of Makhmour
In one Kurdish town, all able-bodied men, from 17 to 80, have picked up arms to defend their homes from the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Exploited in the Southern Sun
After fleeing their homes and surviving a perilous Mediterranean crossing, African migrants in Italy are falling prey to labor gangs.