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Turin city councilman shot, Italy fears return to ideological terrorism

Former Turin mayoral candidate Alberto Musy was shot multiple times by a man wearing a black motorcycle helmet who was waiting for him in the stairwell of his apartment building.

(LA STAMPA/Worldcrunch) Turin - A man wearing a black motorcycle helmet shot a Turin city councilman Wednesday morning inside the politician's apartment building, sparking fears of a return to the political terrorism that has stained Italy's recent past.

Alberto Musy, who was a centrist candidate for Turin mayor in 2011, is in serious condition after being rushed to the hospital shortly after 8 a.m.

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U.S.-China-Global South: The New Geometry Of Our "Tripolar" World

Approaching the world as a simple opposition between East and West falls short. An emerging "tripolar" geopolitics requires we establish new ways of thinking and managing both conflict and opportunity.

U.S.-China-Global South: The New Geometry Of Our "Tripolar" World

Chinese President Xi Jinping attending the Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity against COVID-19 in Beijing in June 2020.

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PARIS — Has the world become tripolar?

Is there a reformulation of the “classic” confrontation between a Global West and a Global East, happening under the watch of a Global South that does not support Russia's aggression against Ukraine but simultaneously expresses its reservations against the Western world?

Of course, this new tripolar order is asymmetrical, to say the least. The Global South is infinitely more diverse in its composition than the Global West and East can be. But we can no longer be satisfied with thinking of the world in terms of bipolarity between the U.S. and China. And Europe is far from having become an independent actor within the multipolar world.

In the tripolar world that is revealing itself, each pole obeys its own rules and expresses a specific kind of emotion.

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