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Masouma Tajik in Kabul on Dec. 7, 2020 An Afghan in Ukraine
She fled Kabul for safety in Kyiv. Now the 23-year-old is facing war again.
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Valérie Pécresse gives a talk at a Paris high school. France’s Iron Lady
Can Valérie Pécresse reunite the right and defeat French President Emmanuel Macron?
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Eric Zemmour is photographed in Paris on April 22. France’s New Far-Right Firebrand
Professional provocateur Éric Zemmour makes Marine Le Pen look like a moderate.
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Mikheil Saakashvili Washington’s Forgotten Golden Boy Is Trying for a Comeback in Georgia
Mikheil Saakashvili has forced himself back on the political stage—despite the danger.
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Elizabeth Truss arrives for a cabinet meeting. Liz Truss, True Believer
From Brexit-skeptic to face of the “Global Britain” agenda, the new foreign secretary has always seen politics as philosophy in action.
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Fumio Kishida Fumio Kishida’s Principles Are About to Be Put to the Test
Japan’s new prime minister is the moderate face of a party dominated by its right wing.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to press at the United Nations. ‘Minister Nyet’ Returns to His U.N. Stomping Grounds
Sergey Lavrov has honed the practice of body blocking U.S. and European diplomacy at every turn.
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A close-up photo of Hossein Amir-Abdollahian's face. Meet Iran’s New Foreign Minister: Qassem Suleimani’s ‘Soldier’
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian is a staunch backer of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance.”
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The Italian diplomat Stefano Pontecorvo at the Kabul airport NATO’s Man in Kabul
Stefano Pontecorvo spent his childhood in Kabul. Sixty years later, he coordinated the evacuation of 124,000 people before saying goodbye to the city himself.
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Qin Gang speaks in Beijing. Is China’s New U.S. Ambassador a ‘Wolf Warrior’—or a Fox?
Although close to Chinese President Xi Jinping, Qin Gang doesn’t quite fit the mold of hostile Chinese diplomacy.
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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya addresses the U.N. Security Council from her office in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Sept. 4, 2020. Belarus’s Unlikely New Leader
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya didn’t set out to challenge a brutal dictatorship.
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Albanian prime minister flashes victory sign. Edi Rama Is Building Bridges to Europe—or Nowhere
As an artist, he dreamed of the West. As Albanian prime minister, the West is letting him down.
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Rivka Ravitz visits Qasr al-Yahud Will Rivka Ravitz Break the Glass Ceiling of Ultra-Orthodox Politics in Israel?
One of the country’s most powerful women has remained rooted in a traditional community. But religious parties still won’t let her run for office.
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Angela Merkel The Other Side of Angela Merkel
What the world has misunderstood about the German chancellor.
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Tom Tugendhat, a member of the British Parliament Tom Tugendhat Is the British MP China Hates Most
A stalwartly anti-Beijing figure doesn’t quite fit his party’s mold.
