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Netanyahu and Pegasus; Ukraine and Turkey; Idlib; Gaza’s Sufis; Egypt’s pickled mummy fetus; and more…in less than 1,100 words!

From our regional correspondents: Turkey and Syria; Idlib’s rival factions; Egypt and Sudan; Israel’s ultra-orthodox and vaccines; and Iraq’s Islamic cemetery — the largest in the world.

The ongoing JCPOA talks in Vienna are still complicated, and the timeline is down to a ‘few weeks,’ says US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Turkish lira crisis hits Syria; Saudi, Syrian intel chiefs talk; Netflix drama evokes memories for Izmir’s Jews; Oman bets on logistics; Egypt, Tanzania deepen ties; Gaza’s women skateboarders — all in less than 1,500 words.

Newly minted Nobel Peace Prize winner and journalist Maria Ressa has a deep bench of prominent lawyers aiding her efforts to expose corruption in her native Philippines, and they are using the international recognition to push government officials to drop criminal charges against their client.

Good morning, it’s Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Today is the 117 th birthday of Dr. Seuss, real name Theodor Geisel, who made a career out of making children laugh and adults think. And sometimes the other way around. He certainly got political satirist Art Buchwald chuckling, and thinking, in 1974 as the Watergate scandal consumed Washington. Ted Geisel sent the liberal columnist a Dr. Seuss book he’d written two years earlier titled “Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!” In the copy th...

U.S. Investigated Kara-Murza Poisoning as ‘Intentional’ Act – RFE/RL Dec. 16, 2020 Vladimir Kara-Murza Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP / TASS United States investigators probed Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr.’s suspected poisonings as “intentional” acts, the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty news outlet reported Tuesday, citing newly obtained records.  Kara-Murza, 39, says he was deliberate...

Stephen Rademaker, who is representing Kara-Murza in his lawsuit, told RFE/RL that around 275 pages were still being withheld "for consultation with other agencies," while 10 had been withheld on grounds of national security. "Its possible that the national-security rationale for withholding them is embarrassment over an inability to determine what agent was used to poison Vladimir," Rademaker said in an e-mail. "But given the enormous technical capabilities of the U.S. government, we think its...