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Here’s What A Wider Middle East War Looks Like — And How It Gets Bigger

A photo of mourners carrying the coffin of Hezbollah fighter Abbas Badii Milhim.
Mourners last month in southern Lebanon carry the coffin of a fallen Hezbollah fighter killed by Israeli forces. Vasily Krestyaninov/SOPA Images via ZUMA

Nine dead and nearly 3,000 wounded. The unprecedented attack on the pagers of Hezbollah members is the larger explosion of a war already underway that could consume the whole Middle East.

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Fall Of The Empire? Ethnic Separatism On The Rise In Russia

Kalmyks attend the unveiling ceremony of a Buddha statue
Kalmyks attend the unveiling ceremony of a Buddha statue in Kalmykia, Russia Sandzhi Ubushiyev/TASS/ZUMA

Far from being a unified state, Russia is full of federal subjects — many of which have spawned separatist movements. Moscow, far from Siberia or the Caucasus and focused on Ukraine, is finding it harder to contain them.

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“You Must Name Your Enemy” — The Marine Le Pen Interview

Le Pen, an anti-EU member of the European Parliament.
Le Pen, an anti-EU member of the European Parliament. Wiktor Dabkowski/ZUMA

A return to national borders, a fight against radical Islam, a rejection of the EU and its asylum policies. France’s Far-Right National Front leader Marine Le Pen answers questions in the wake of the Paris attacks, and ahead of Sunday’s re

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