For Russia, the cruelty is the point
How to make sense of Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian civilians.
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France’s Liz Truss moment is yet to come – and it may be worse
Fights over the budget and a growing debt problem promise a difficult autumn.
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Can France’s anti-Le Pen alliance survive?
Political chaos, confusion and incompetence are almost inevitable after no single grouping wins a parliamentary majority.
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Vladimir Putin’s enablers are complicit in this war
An attack on a Kyiv children's hospital will galvanise Nato leaders. But Russia is not fighting this war alone.
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France is one accident from calamity
Behind the chaos of this election, does a financial crisis loom?
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Jubilation from the French left on the streets of Paris
But their celebrations can't disguise the fact that the far-right is part of politics now.
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Can anyone govern France?
The hard-right surge has been blocked, but the country is irreconcilably divided.
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The Macron era is over
The success of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France’s parliamentary elections has annihilated the president’s power base.
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