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The AfD took 44.1% in Saxony-Anhalt on 6 September, more than double the CDU's 17.1%. Turnout was 77.8%, the highest since 1989.

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Japan's JCR lifted India to A- from BBB+ this month without being asked by New Delhi, citing growth of about 7% a year and a bank bad-loan ratio below 2%.

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“BRICS may be more signal than substance; however, it offers a stage capable of amplifying both.”

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Indian diplomats wrote wording on the regional attacks that named neither Iran nor the US and Israel. The declaration ran to 45 pages, reportedly the bloc's longest. Iran and the UAE separately signed a statement calling for restraint.

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Iran struck Dubai International Airport and UAE oil infrastructure this year. Six months later, Iranian and Emirati leaders sat across from each other at the BRICS summit in New Delhi. https://t.co/AQh9LqnKwj

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“Macron’s centre-Left Renaissance has shifted in keeping with populist sentiment to echo the left-wing New Popular Front on Israel in these two years.”

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France recorded 1,570 antisemitic acts in 2024. Jews were the target of 65% of religion-based attacks while making up under 1% of the population. About 3,300 French Jews moved to Israel in 2025, up 45% on 2024.

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France joined Britain and ten other states in sanctioning Israeli settlement activity on 8 September. Israel had already halted all new procurement from French suppliers by March.

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“Unsurprisingly, the winners of these wars reside outside the borders where they are fought, pulling the strings from afar."

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Saudi Arabia and the UAE went into Yemen together in 2015. They now back opposing sides in Sudan, where 14 million people have been displaced since April 2023.

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In Sudan, the UAE's alignment runs toward the RSF, which it denies arming, and Riyadh backs the army. In Libya, the UAE has armed Haftar since at least 2019. In Yemen, the UAE-funded STC has fought forces on its own side of the war.

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"The purchases China can offer in return are small against the disruption it can cause."

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"Beijing's current leverage works through export licences that take effect in weeks; Washington's works through tariffs and technology controls that take months to bite and which China has learned to work around."
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"Washington's instruments have not grown stronger in the same period. […] China has simply refused American chips even as Washington permits their sale."

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"Beijing's current leverage works through export licences that take effect in weeks; Washington's works through tariffs and technology controls that take months to bite and which China has learned to work around."
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"The purchases China can offer in return are small against the disruption it can cause."

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