Dispatch
The view from the ground.
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A couple walks along the dim streets of Penrith in the United Kingdom Blankets, Food Banks, and Shuttered Pubs: Brexit Has Delivered a Broken Britain
Brexiteers promised to “take back control.” But the decision has instead delivered recession, gloom, and despair.
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Tunisian political parties took the streets and demonstrate against Tunisian President Kais Saied on Revolution Day at Habib Bourguiba Street, demanding his resignation on Jan. 14. Is Kais Saied Losing His Grip on Tunisia?
Tunisians are taking to the streets—rather than voting—as the economy collapses, but they remain deeply divided.
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Kashmir-Chenab-railway-bridge-IMG_5459 How India’s New Bridge to Kashmir Divided a Region
Kashmiris fear an expensive infrastructure project will mean more military domination and demographic change.
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Protestor standing in front of a river, holding a sign against the Amazon River Club Development. Amazon’s New Africa HQ Pits Indigenous South Africans Against Each Other
The planned development will bring jobs, but raises questions about who speaks for Khoi and San peoples, what is sacred, and how to commemorate injustice.
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The author stands on the nuclear bombing test fields in Kazakhstan. Can Kazakhstan Bury Its Nuclear Past?
Forgetting the site where Russia became a nuclear power comes with its own risks.
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People sit near the Golden Horn in Istanbul. Erdogan’s Turkey Faces a Growing Exodus Ahead of Elections
Fed up with the economy and a political crackdown, young Turks are increasingly looking abroad to find their futures.
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Netanyahu waves as he walks during a hearing at the Magistrate Court. Will Less Democracy Kill Israel’s Tech Sector?
Several firms pull investments over Bibi’s plan to weaken the judiciary.
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Andrej Babis, a former Czech prime minister who is now running for the presidency, talks to his supporters during an election campaign stop in Brno, Czech Republic, on Jan. 9. Andrej Babis’s Scorched-Earth Bid for the Czech Presidency
The populist former prime minister has tried to blow up the second round of voting in a race he’s almost certain to lose.
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Demonstrators attend a rally in Paris. Macron Is Courting His Waterloo Over Pension Reform
Like other rich countries, France is trying to go gray and stay solvent—and the French aren’t buying it.
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An Israeli soldier prepares an Elbit Systems Skylark I unmanned aerial vehicle for deployment near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on Aug. 21, 2020, as part of a monitoring operation in the area. What the Rise of Drone Warfare Means for Palestinians
Whether armed or not, drones function as a form of psychological terror for those living underneath them.
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A sign at the entrance to Kherson, Ukraine, reads: "Do you know about a collaborator or traitor? Inform us." Russia’s Fifth Column in Ukraine Is Alive and Well
A year after the invasion, Ukraine is riddled with Russian collaborators and sympathizers.
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Abandoned barricades are seen at a local beach on Sept. 24, 2022 in Kinmen, Taiwan. Taiwan’s Outlying Islands Are at Risk
Chinese domestic instability could encourage the CCP to attack the Taiwanese archipelagos of Kinmen and Matsu.
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Police officers stand outside the scene of a "buy bust" operation in the Philippines that resulted in the shooting death by police of an alleged drug dealer in 2016. The Philippines Is Losing Its ‘War on Drugs’
New President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has promised a more compassionate approach, but that’s not what it looks like in the slums of Manila.
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Aaron, an undergraduate student at a Sydney university, wears a Winnie-the-Pooh suit as he protests China's zero-COVID measures at a rally in Australia. In Australia, Pro-Democracy Students Aren’t Safe From China’s Reach
To evade surveillance and reporting by nationalist members of the diaspora, anti-CCP protesters get creative.
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War game designer and expert Major Tom Mouat oversees a “One China” game at the U.K. Defence Academy How Would a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Play Out?
War-gamers plan for Taiwan’s D-Day.
