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The Labour Party’s decades of backbiting and pettiness have collapsed on it.

“You cannot organize credible elections while banning the country's largest political party, the Awami League.”

Archeologist Dougald O’Reilly speaks about his work on Laos' Plain of Jars and tracing the region's pre-historical societies.

The attack at a Shia Mosque in Islamabad seems aimed at fueling Shia-Sunni sectarian flames to attract former Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants to its ranks.

DÉCRYPTAGE - L’image du patron de LFI s’est fortement dégradée. Mais son score dans les sondages est identique à celui mesuré à la même échéance les fois précédentes.

RÉCIT - En février 2016, Jean-Luc Mélenchon fondait un mouvement politique novateur qui se retrouve aujourd’hui entaché par des accusations d’une gravité rare.

How U.S.-Chinese competition could leave most countries behind.

How the CCP balances control and innovation.

Russia is recruiting increasing numbers of fighters from the region, using deceptive practices pioneered by Southeast Asia-based online scam operations.

Indonesia’s production restrictions strengthen its position as a regional agenda setter. The Philippines, by contrast, risks becoming a price taker, bearing environmental pressures and reserve depletion while much of the value added occurs abroad.

SONDAGE - Une vaste étude Odoxa menée pour l’association «Les Ponts Neufs» met en lumière un climat d’anxiété diffus dans l’opinion, porteuse de fortes attentes à l’égard du prochain président.

A day after suffering a shock defeat at a general election, the progressive People's Party has been dealt a fresh blow by the national anti-graft body.

The agreement symbolizes the health of the relationship between Canberra and Jakarta, but stops short of providing binding security guarantees.

A rare supermajority grants the Japanese prime minister a sweeping mandate to enact economic and defense reforms.

Without the treaty, nuclear forces will become hard to verify and harder to trust.

Despite a landslide victory, questions remain over the prime minister’s popularity and her fiscal plans.

INFO LE FIGARO - Le chef de l’État s’apprête à nommer mercredi l’actuelle ministre des Comptes publics qui, à 40 ans, succédera à Pierre Moscovici comme première présidente de l’institution financière.

In "The Islands and the Stars," Subodhana Wijeyeratne charts how Tokyo's space program has changed over the past century.

The transition to Phase Two of the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, following the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2803 (2025), has brought renewed focus to the proposed International Stabilization Force (ISF). While the resolution authorizes the ISF as a central operational pillar of the next phase, significant uncertainty remains around its mandate, composition, sequencing, and relationship to emerging Palestinian governance arrangements.

This issue brief examines the conditions under which the ISF could contribute to stabilization rather than exacerbate political and security risks. Drawing on IPI-led consultations and off-the-record discussions with regional actors, UN officials, member states, and Israeli and Palestinian experts, the brief unpacks key challenges related to anchoring stabilization in a credible political horizon, clarifying the division of labor among international and local actors, and sequencing deployment alongside Israeli withdrawal, Palestinian policing, and reconstruction.

The brief surfaces critical questions for policymakers on mandate design, coordination, risk management, and legitimacy. It underscores that the ISF’s effectiveness will depend on its integration into a broader political framework, meaningful Palestinian participation, and clear benchmarks linking stabilization to a durable political process.

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Avec sa stratégie d’union de la gauche hors insoumis, le Parti socialiste espère être présenté au lendemain des élections municipales (15 et 22 mars) comme l’un des vainqueurs du scrutin pour apparaître comme la seule force politique de gauche en mesure de battre la droite et l’extrême droite lors de la prochaine élection présidentielle en 2027.