For over 20 years, the opioid crisis in North America has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, primarily due to over-prescribing by doctors and marketing by pharmaceutical companies of powerful…
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What next on the war in Ukraine?
Introduction and context
The degree to which Western relations with Russia have fallen apart since the hopeful days of Mikhail Gorbachev and the early post-Cold War period is mind-numbing. A few key…
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Daily death and destruction continues in Ukraine, Security Council hears
Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča, whose portfolio straddles both Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, voiced concern over attacks on energy infrastructure as winter approaches.
Drones, death and devastation
Mr. Jenča said at least 208…
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Trick Question: Who Will Defend Europe?
If Britain were properly governed, Keir Giles would still be “institutionalized in the Ministry of Defence” as he tells me. But Britain is in a mess, and one sign of this is that he is out of public service and able to describe its…
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Passengers to enjoy cleaner travel between UK and Europe
- world’s first ‘green shipping corridors’ to be created between the UK and Europe, accessing prime destinations like Amsterdam, Oslo, Copenhagen and Dublin
- up to £9 million investment to decarbonise shipping and…
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What to know as Biden heads for farewell trip to Germany : NPR
President Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (right) arrive for the official Group of Seven summit welcome ceremony at…
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What’s Driving a Bigger BRICS and What Does it Mean for the U.S.?
BRICS leaders Russia and China aim to construct an alternative to Western-led security and financial architectures and see expanding the group as an important step to that end. USIP’s Adam Gallagher and Andrew Cheatham…
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The rising threat of synthetic opioids in Europe
Host Vanda Felbab-Brown speaks with Dr. Alex Stevens, criminology professor at the University of Sheffield, about the emerging threat of synthetic opioids in Europe, particularly fentanyl and nitazenes. Stevens argues that the greater…
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Understanding Türkiye’s Entanglement With Russia
This paper is part of a series of four publications in a project run by the Carnegie Endowment’s Türkiye and the World Initiative, analyzing the forces at play in the Euro-Atlantic area since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on…
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National and transboundary contributions to surface ozone concentration across European countries
We analyze the country-level O3 production relative to the imported O3 over Europe. We begin with a detailed evaluation of the simulated O3 over Europe. The source contribution results are introduced with an overview of the mean contributions…
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