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Stories of War and Its Aftermath, From Ancient Greece to America in '2034'

2034. A Novel of the Next World War By Elliot Ackerman and Adm. James Stavridis 303 pp. Penguin Press. $27. This fast-paced military thriller details the horrifying aftermath of a mistaken encounter between an American naval patrol and a potent Chinese ...

Westerners are increasingly scared of traveling to China as threat of detention rises

(CNN) Jeff Wasserstrom is a self-proclaimed China specialist who is seriously considering never returning to China -- at least, he says, not while President Xi Jinping is in power. The American professor, who for decades made multiple trips a year to China ...

Catalan Separatist Leader Loses Immunity, Clearing Way for Spain's Extradition Bid

Carles Puigdemont has been charged with sedition for leading a 2017 independence bid. His European Parliament membership had shielded him from prosecution.

A Small Village Takes On Big Oil In 'How Beautiful We Were'

NPR

NPR

A madman commits one of the first acts of rebellion in Imbolo Mbue's vast second novel. In the village of Kosawa, a battle is raging: On one side, the citizens of this once-idyll. On the other, the mammoth oil company Pexton, which has, over generations, ...

Puigdemont: EU parliament lifts ex-Catalan leader's immunity

The European Parliament has voted to waive the immunity of former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and two other Catalan separatist MEPs. The politicians left Spain in 2017 following a failed independence referendum, which Madrid said was illegal.

EXPLAINER: Myanmar media defiant as junta cracks down

Washington Post

Washington Post

BANGKOK — Myanmar's military-controlled government is seeking to suppress media coverage of protests against its seizure of power as journalists and ordinary citizens strive to inform people inside and outside of the country about what is happening.

Niger's Mahamadou Issoufou - why he won a $5m prize

To win the 2020 Ibrahim award for African leadership, and the $5m (£3.6m) prize attached to it, Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou had to leave office. His decision to step down after two terms means Niger will have the first democratic transition between ...

Germany is main target of Russian disinformation, EU says

Reuters

Reuters

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany is the top target of Russian disinformation campaigns in the European Union, a report said on Tuesday, as ties between Moscow and the West hit new lows over the poisoning and jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

McConnell criticizes Covid-19 relief bill, calling it "purely partisan"

Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock/FILE. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill the narrowly passed the Senate Saturday as "very liberal and purely partisan," saying it was only able to get through because ...

Quad heads of state to hold first-ever summit this week

Four US F/A-18s and four MiG 29Ks from the Indian navy aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya are seen from the flight deck of the USS Nimitz while participating in Malabar 2020 in the Indian Ocean in November.