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The Spectator

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Could Trump’s conviction really change the presidential election?

The first time I heard the name ‘Michael Cohen’ was in 2015, from a Republican political operative who told me: ‘It’s his job to clean up...

14.05.2024 60

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Inside the new Arab-Israeli alliance

As Jordanian fighter jets shot down Iranian drones heading for Israel on Saturday night, there were joyful cries of Allahu Akbar on the ground as some...

18.04.2024 10

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Low birth rates are a threat to humanity

The village we moved to in central Italy is lovely – old stone houses and olive trees on a hillside – but it is eerily deserted most of the...

25.02.2024 5

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Have the Houthis gone rogue?

The US and Britain really didn’t think they had a choice about bombing Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea – one of...

12.01.2024 10

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Can the killing of innocent civilians ever be justified?

Israel has made the first, rather tentative, moves of its ground operation against Hamas – but there’s nothing tentative about its aerial bombing....

02.11.2023 5

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Can Israel’s hostages be saved?

The last message that Shaked Haran saw from her father was just after 7.30 a.m. on the Saturday of the Hamas attacks in Israel. Her parents were in...

19.10.2023 10

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What Iran gains from the conflict in Israel

Paul Wood has narrated this article for you to listen to. A little more than a week before Hamas carried out its Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, the US...

12.10.2023 4

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