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The US's denial about North Korea

It only took one day for US-North Korea talks to break down again. And Kim's January 2020 deadline is just edging closer

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The new space wars

The conflicts of the big military powers are increasingly taking place in outer space. This is a major threat to global security

By Daniel A. Porras

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The Epstein suicide conspiracies

Each news cycle shows how our information system is poisoned

By Charlie Warzel

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A New START?

In the age of Trump, arms control needs a relaunch: it will either be multilateral or it will not be at all

By Oliver Thränert

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Why the West needs the UN

With hopes for a liberal peace fading, the West’s best option is to return to the UN’s collective security system

By Michael von der Schulenburg

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A twisted game

The US pushes Europe to designate the Lebanese Hizbollah as a terrorist organisation. But this only serves to pressure Iran

By Heiko Wimmen

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Playing by your own rules

Why Europe should have long stopped selling arms to the Near and Middle East

By Herbert Wulf

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'Civil war is possible'

Left-wing intellectual Edgardo Lander on the political crisis in Venezuela, the role of the US and the left's failure to learn

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Here to stay

Benjamin Netanyahu will most likely form the next government after the Knesset elections – despite facing legal proceedings

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'Colombia could become a target of retaliation'

Kristina Birke Daniels on why intervention in Venezuela would destabilise its closest neighbour and endanger the peace process