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Europe’s Fight Over Russian Assets Is Testing Its Ability to Support Ukraine

European Union leaders convened on Thursday for a meeting that will show whether they can face head-on many of the largest challenges confronting them: an aggressive Russia, an increasingly unfriendly United States and a costly land war in Ukraine.

Over 1,000 Were Killed in Attack on Famine-Stricken Camp in Sudan, U.N. Says

Paramilitaries in Sudan killed over 1,000 people, one-third of them in summary executions, in an attack in April against a famine-stricken camp for displaced people, the United Nations human rights body said.

Who Can Solve Iran’s Many Problems? Not I, Says the President.

Amid sky-high inflation, water and energy cuts and prospects for a deal with the U. S. dimming, President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran has apparently thrown up his hands.

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