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Kill and Be Killed: Ukraine’s Bloody Battlefield Equation

The fighting in Ukraine remains exceedingly violent as both sides try to muster the weapons and personnel to endure.

Turkey’s President Sends Sweden’s NATO Bid to Parliament for Ratification

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey on Monday signed and sent to Parliament a measure approving Sweden’s bid to join the NATO military alliance, according to a brief statement from his office.

Maduro Antagonist on Track to Win Venezuela Primary

A center-right candidate appeared headed to victory in Venezuela on Monday in a primary election to choose an opposition candidate to compete in presidential elections next year — a vote that could prove pivotal to the fate of a country that has endured a decade of economic crisis and authoritarian governance.

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