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The Supreme Court declined to rule on a Texas law that bans all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. However, abortion…
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A historian explains how the Taliban emerged out of the decades of chaos that followed the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan…
Another wave of COVID-19 in Russia is undermining public health and threatens economic recovery. But widespread mistrust…
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Kashmir has been in conflict since 1947, despite repeated UN and US interventions. An expert in security studies explains…
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