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In an image from a video, a Russian guard stands near the gate into a camp near Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP)

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In 2021, President Biden recognized the 1915 removal of Armenians from their lands in Anatolia, in today’s Turkey, as genocide. The United States had been silent on the issue for more than a century, and its silence had grievous consequences.

Today, Armenians need global leaders, including Biden, to stop a new genocide — one that started this past winter and is now evolving into a more brutal phase.

On Tuesday, after a months-long blockade and military buildup along the border of the Armenian-majority enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan’s military launched an attack. Within a day, Azerbaijani forces quickly overwhelmed local defenses, killing more than 200 people, including civilians.…  Seguir leyendo »

Armenians rally in Yerevan on Thursday following Azerbaijani military operations against Armenian separatist forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. (Karen Minasyan/AFP via Getty Images)

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It was Mao Zedong who said that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun”. That harsh lesson certainly applies to the long-running battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the contested territory known as Nagorno-Karabakh — where Azerbaijan this week imposed its sovereignty by force of arms.

For Armenians, who live in the long shadow of the 1915 Ottoman genocide, the plight of an estimated 120,000 ethnic Armenians in Karabakh has been haunting. Lacking the military power to rival Azerbaijan — and without protection from Russia, the United States or even Armenia itself — the Karabakh Armenians were forced to surrender in two days.…  Seguir leyendo »

Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), right, speaks with Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) during a House Armed Services Committee meeting on Feb. 2. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)

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As Washington turns its focus toward the 2024 presidential campaign, U.S. aid to Ukraine is becoming increasingly vulnerable to partisan politics and the culture wars. When the next tranche comes up for a vote in Congress, the number of Republicans voting no will be high. If the Biden administration wants to preserve the flow of support to Kyiv, it will need to mount a more robust, more honest case about the expected costs and length of the war effort to lawmakers and the American people.

Since the full-scale Russian invasion began in February 2022, the United States has committed $113 billion to military, economic and humanitarian aid for Ukraine and other countries impacted by the war.…  Seguir leyendo »

Protesters dressed in white march through Tel Aviv on Sept. 17 as the Jewish new year begins. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)

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The simmering conflict between the Israeli government and Supreme Court is coming to a head. In January, the court overruled the ministerial appointment of Aryeh Deri, a party leader with a checkered legal history, on the grounds that the appointment is “extremely unreasonable”. In response, the governing coalition amended a law to abolish the court’s (seldom exercised) prerogative to apply its reasonableness doctrine. The ball is now back in the Supreme Court, where an unprecedented 15-judge panel will soon decide on petitions to invalidate the law.

Were the court to overturn the law — thereby abolishing the abolishment of the doctrine it used to overrule Deri’s appointment — the upshot would likely be a constitutional crisis.…  Seguir leyendo »

Victor Stelmakh, head of a Ukrainian attack drone unit, in the Luhansk region on Sept. 1. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post)

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The war in Ukraine — Europe’s biggest conflict since 1945 — features a bewildering combination of old and new technologies and tactics. The artillery duels, minefields and trench warfare are straight out of World War I, and yet much of the Ukrainian artillery fire is now being spotted by drones and adjusted on tablet computers linked via satellite to the internet. It sometimes feels like a mash-up of “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Blade Runner”.

Militaries around the world are closely following the fighting to gain insights into 21st-century warfare, knowing that they are watching a trial run of technologies that will become more ubiquitous and important in future conflicts.…  Seguir leyendo »

Two Iranian girls, not wearing the mandatory hijab, look out over Tehran on Sept. 9. (Hossein Beris/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images)

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It has been one year since the killing by police of a young Kurdish Iranian woman named Jina Mahsa Amini inspired the largest anti-government outcry the Islamic Republic of Iran has seen in ages. Spontaneous street protests in scores of cities across the country, marked by scenes of jubilation and daring, made the slogan “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi” — Woman, Life, Freedom — a cause around the world. And though it is true that the movement has since moved into a less pyrotechnic phase, no longer showcased daily by international news outlets, it would be a mistake to assume it has run out of steam.…  Seguir leyendo »

Know what makes ‘post-covid’ life complicated? Cancer

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On a bright, warm day, and for the first time since my husband was diagnosed with a form of bone-marrow cancer called myelodysplastic syndrome earlier this year, I called a ride-hailing service to take me to my friends’ apartment near Japantown. The couple had newly bought and moved into this home — no small feat for anyone living in San Francisco — and were hosting a barbecue for a variety of celebratory events that had occurred in our friend group this year: books published, awards, birthdays.

Almost all our group’s in-person gatherings until this one had been put off, and then put off, and then put off again during what we considered the height of the pandemic.…  Seguir leyendo »

Protesters dressed in white march through Tel Aviv on Sept. 17 as the Jewish new year begins. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)

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The simmering conflict between the Israeli government and Supreme Court is coming to a head. In January, the court overruled the ministerial appointment of Aryeh Deri, a party leader with a checkered legal history, on the grounds that the appointment is “extremely unreasonable”. In response, the governing coalition amended a law to abolish the court’s (seldom exercised) prerogative to apply its reasonableness doctrine. The ball is now back in the Supreme Court, where an unprecedented 15-judge panel will soon decide on petitions to invalidate the law.

Were the court to overturn the law — thereby abolishing the abolishment of the doctrine it used to overrule Deri’s appointment — the upshot would likely be a constitutional crisis.…  Seguir leyendo »

Smoke rises from a coal-fired power plant on Friday in Indonesia. (Aditya Aji/AFP/Getty Images)

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As the United Nations marks Climate Week in New York, heading into a global climate summit later this year, it’s time to train the spotlight on one critical, stubborn issue: the growth of unabated coal.

The world has seen recent progress on climate change, including momentum for tripling the deployment of renewable energy sources, thanks to Indian leadership at the recent Group of 20 summit. But the proliferation of unabated coal — coal used to produce energy without steps to eliminate emissions — threatens to negate any such advances.

Tripling renewables without also halting the building of new dirty coal plants would be like training for a marathon while smoking five packs of cigarettes a day.…  Seguir leyendo »

Women walk along Vanak Square in central Tehran on Sept. 4. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)

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On Sept. 16, 2022, a young Kurdish woman named Mahsa Amini died in police custody in Tehran. Reports that she had been detained for neglecting to wear hijab stirred widespread outrage — especially among women, who saw the case as merely the latest in a long history of gendered human rights abuses in Iran. For many activists, compulsory hijab had come to embody everything that was wrong with the regime, and they soon began calling for revolutionary change. Protests spread across the country, and the regime responded with a brutal crackdown that led to some 600 deaths, thousands injured and more than 20,000 arrests.…  Seguir leyendo »

Floods after the Mediterranean storm Daniel hit Libya's eastern city of Derna have killed thousands. (AFP/Getty Images)

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Apocalyptic visions are dominated by fire. The Bible prophesies sinners being cast into a lake of flame. Nostradamus predicted fire from the sky. Manhattan Project scientists worried that the atomic bomb would set the entire atmosphere ablaze.

But this year has been a devastating reminder of the power and menace of water. Water scientists have a saying that if climate change is a shark, water will be the teeth. Now the world is being bitten, with news every day of extreme storms and killer floods.

The storm that burst dams and killed thousands in Libya this week also submerged a quarter of the farmland in Greece, dumping more than a year’s rain in hours.…  Seguir leyendo »

Lt. Gen. Andreas Marlow, head of the German Elements MN Corps/Basic Military Organization at Strausberg, speaks next to a Leopard 1A5 main battle tank during a media day of the European Union Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine in Klietz, Germany, on Aug. 17. (Annegret Hilse/Reuters)

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The Biden administration has committed an impressive amount of aid to Ukraine in the 18 months since Russia’s full-scale invasion — roughly $75 billion, not counting the administration’s recent request for an additional $21 billion. That sum is fast approaching more than half of all U.S. assistance to Israel since its founding in 1948. Astonishingly, though, Europe has collectively committed even more to help Ukrainians survive, fight and stave off financial collapse.

That will make sense to many Americans. Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion triggered what is, after all, a European war — the continent’s biggest, bloodiest and most shape-shifting conflict since World War II.…  Seguir leyendo »

Signage for the Group of 20 summit in New Delhi on Sept. 3. (Prakash Singh/Bloomberg News)

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The annual Group of 20 festivities, this year in India, are now concluded. It is appropriate to ask exactly what these gatherings accomplish. For the process-obsessed, every international meeting among heads of state or diplomats is positive, regardless of whether anything concrete is achieved. The G-20 exemplifies this misconception. Mountains of final communiqués, joint statements and outcome documents have contributed to global deforestation but little else.

Moreover, leaders’ summits are preceded by endless cabinet-level meetings: foreign ministers, treasury ministers and environmental ministers, all producing rivers of deathless prose. Who remembers, though, the ringing declarations of last year’s G-20 gathering in Bali, much less those of previous years?…  Seguir leyendo »

Vladimir Putin delivers remarks after he is sworn is as Russian president on May 7, 2000. At right is outgoing president Boris Yeltsin. (AFP/Getty Images)

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Political change in Russia always comes unexpectedly. The tsarist minister Vyacheslav von Plehve, who before 1904 called for a “small victorious war”, never imagined that it would lead to a revolutionary explosion and force the monarchy to agree to a constitution, parliament and freedom of the press. Vladimir Lenin, complaining to the Swiss Social Democrats in January 1917 that “we of the older generation may not live to see the decisive battles of this coming revolution”, did not suspect that it was only a few weeks away. And absolutely no one in the summer of 1991 expected that by the end of the year the Communist Party of the Soviet Union would be banned and the Soviet Union dissolved.…  Seguir leyendo »

As President Bill Clinton looks on, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, shakes hands with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the White House signing of a peace accord in September 1993. (Ron Edmonds/AP)

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“Oslo” has become a dirty word for its critics.

Things looked very different 30 years ago on Sept. 13, 1993, on the White House lawn. The iconic handshake between historic enemies Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, with President Bill Clinton spreading his arms to draw them together, was an extraordinary moment of hope.

The Declaration of Principles signed that day was the foundation of the Oslo agreements, named after the secret talks conducted in Norway between the Rabin government and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The declaration represented a psychological breakthrough: two national movements competing for the same territory recognized one another after years of denial.…  Seguir leyendo »

A funeral ceremony for rescuer Ruslan Koshovyi in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday. Koshovyi was killed by Russian troops in the city of Hostomel during the first days Russia's attack on Ukraine. (Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)

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The overnight train ride from Poland to Ukraine is a reminder of why this land has been so hotly contested over the last century: Ukraine’s soil is among the most fertile on the planet. We passed vast fields of wheat and other crops dotted with small farmhouses; in some places farmers were still using horses to plow the fields. As we approached Kyiv, the landscape quickly shifted to urban.

Despite the war, Ukraine’s railways continue to be clean, comfortable and efficient. My train rolled into Kyiv right on time. That says a lot about Ukraine. Despite the war, Kyiv feels almost normal.…  Seguir leyendo »

Panagiotis Arabatzis, 57, hugs his son Stamatis, 13, as they watch smoke rising from a wildfire burning near Lefkimi, Greece, on Sept. 2. (Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters)

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Wildfires of all kinds.

This has been the hottest summer, not just in both of our lives but possibly in 120,000 years, according to leading scientists. Yet it is likely to be the coolest we’ll experience for the rest of our lives.

It’s a startling thought and one to stop on before checking the exits — if we can find any.

That means more heat, more drought and more wildfires like this summer’s devastating blazes in Maui and the Mediterranean basin. But it also means more pressure on a global economy already feeling the strain.

Because the climate crisis unaddressed will become development in reverse, undoing decades of social and economic progress in regions that did nothing to cause it.…  Seguir leyendo »

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador listens as his then-foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, speaks during the president's daily news conference in Mexico City on Nov. 12, 2019. (Marco Ugarte/AP)

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Things haven’t played out exactly as Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had hoped they might.

For months, his party, Morena, had carefully planned the selection of its presidential candidate. Several months ago, López Obrador gave the green light to start the primary process earlier than the law allowed, and most of the plausible candidates in his party took up the challenge. Six candidates registered, and the primary race soon narrowed down to the two most prominent figures in López Obrador’s inner circle: the former foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, and former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum.

As the race kicked off, the party insisted it was running a fair contest: The candidate would be chosen through a series of public polls.…  Seguir leyendo »

Elon Musk, SpaceX founder and chief executive, in Paris on June 16. (Nathan Laine/Bloomberg)

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An hour before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, it used a massive malware attack to disable the routers of the American satellite company Viasat that provided communications to the country. The command system of the Ukrainian military was crippled, making it almost impossible to mount a defense. Top Ukrainian officials frantically appealed to SpaceX founder Elon Musk for help, and the deputy prime minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, used Twitter to urge him to send Ukraine terminals so it could use the satellite system that the company had built. “We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations”, he wrote.…  Seguir leyendo »

Members of Ukraine's 108th Separate Brigade fire small rockets toward Russian troops on Aug. 19. (Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)

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Some U.S. military officials appear astonished that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has not made a rapid breakthrough — and, through anonymous quotes to the news media, they are laying the blame on the Ukrainian military. Retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Arnold, by contrast, isn’t the least bit surprised at the slow pace of the advance — and he’s blaming the Americans, not the Ukrainians.

Arnold, a cheerful former Special Forces officer with three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, has spent extensive time near the front lines advising the Ukrainian military (at his own expense). He has come away impressed by the professionalism and élan of the Ukrainian army — while also cognizant of the limitations of the training and equipment they have been provided by the West.…  Seguir leyendo »