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As Beirut continues to bicker over candidates and other long-running feuds, the country’s political elites likely expect and hope to rely on their international backers to resolve strictly Lebanese problems.

Moscow’s war of aggression against Ukraine has caused a proliferation in the “privatization of force” in Russia (see EDM, February 27; February 28), with Yevgeny Prigozhin, the sponsor and founder of the notorious Wagner Group, enjoying unprecedented publicity. While some commentators and experts (both in Russia and abroad) argue that Prigozhin is acting as the Kremlin’s henchman whose days may …

The Russia-Ukraine War will result in the disintegration of the Russian Federation because Moscow will be unable to support or control its Eurasian land mass with 11 time zones, Diane Francis writes.

Lebanon has always felt the burdens or potentially the rewards of regional and global decisionmaking.

Now that an unorthodox Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is challenging Joe Biden, it's open season for the media.

Will the seven-month-long presidential paralysis finally be broken?

IN SOUTH AFRICA and in Black communities in America and elsewhere, Civil Society, the Church, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Not-For-Profit Organizations (NPOs), Community Based Organization (CBOs), Co-Operatives etc, have always played a powerful role in the fight against poverty. Poverty has been generally accepted as being key factor in many societal…

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For many in Lebanon, the events constituted a blatant disregard for state authority and international law.