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Middle East conflict: this ceasefire may have made Iran stronger

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Will the conflict in Lebanon destroy the US-Iran ceasefire? Maybe, but it was already shaky

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The US-Israel ceasefire with Iran presses pause on a costly war, but can peace last?

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Donald Trump's US ratings fall to a record low amid Iran war

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'A whole civilisation will die tonight': Trump's genocide threat against Iran was another new low for America

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In mediating the US-Iran peace talks, Pakistan is flexing its geopolitical muscles

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Lebanon's political elites are using displacement and humanitarian crisis to delay elections again

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Iran's Revolutionary Guard would fiercely resist a US ground invasion. History proves it

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Plagiarised research passed automated tests, and I detected it – but only because it copied my work

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New Israeli law could mean death penalty by default for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks

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Silence: a brief literary history

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How medieval chess created a space in which players – regardless of race – could engage as equals

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Our modern vision evolved from an ancient one-eyed worm creature

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The Swedish concept of döstädning or death cleaning is about more than just getting rid of things

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A New York Times critic used AI to write his review – but criticism is deeply human

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My unsung hero of science: Buckminster Fuller, the architect who wanted to redesign the world (and inspired a nanosized one)

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The American fixation on white Afrikaners in South Africa stretches back nearly a century

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Why a second global shipping chokepoint could soon live up to its name as the 'Gate of Tears' -- Flavio Macau, Edith Cowan University

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