Dispatch
The view from the ground.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Do You Like Them Apples?
Poland’s political forces are aligned against Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine. But its neighbors are more swayed by Moscow’s charms (and money).
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Many Tons of Cement Will It Take to Rebuild Gaza?
In the ruins of the Strip, the devastation has spared no one.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 South Sudan’s Coming Famine
Renewed fighting in the war-torn country has derailed humanitarian relief efforts, and now tens of thousands are facing starvation.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘A Reckoning Hasn’t Happened’
A new tribunal might prosecute some of Kosovo’s top leaders for gruesome crimes allegedly committed in the late 1990s, including organ trafficking and murder. But could it actually deliver justice?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Boys Will Be Boys’
In India's largest state, a misogynistic family-run political dynasty wants to pretend a rape epidemic doesn't exist.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Do You Say ‘Kimchi’ in Kinyarwanda?
South Korea is offering lessons from its own economic ascent to Rwanda and other African countries -- and bringing business, cuisine, and rice paddies along with it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Victory or Death
For the hard-line brigades in Gaza, a cease-fire is only a temporary reprieve from a battle that never ends.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Cabbage Soup and Ravioli
Russians have gotten used to some fancy foods in recent years. But they're willing to sacrifice Parmesan for Putin's foreign policy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Kurdish Comeback
Kurdish forces in northern Iraq have been outgunned and in retreat from the Islamic State. But not for long, they say.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Erdogan for the Win!
After 11 increasingly authoritarian years as prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is running for president on Aug. 10. What happens next won’t surprise you.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Gaza, the War Is Far From Over
As strikes resume, the battered Palestinians of the Strip don’t want Hamas to give up the fight.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Islamic State that Wasn’t
Yemen's al Qaeda franchise isn't moving to create its own Islamic state quite yet. But the fact that it continues to thrive is ominous enough.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Around Here, People Love Him’
In the Cambodian province where Khmer Rouge leaders came to die, people aren’t celebrating a guilty verdict against two top regime officials. After all, they’re neighbors.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The End of Days for Iraq’s Christians
In the lands of the Old Testament, an endangered religious minority is being wiped out by the brutal Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The War Within Gaza
With a cease-fire holding, a battered Hamas now begins its battle with enemies within for control over the future of the Strip.