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​Security personnel stand guard ahead of the counting of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, at Polytechnic College in Jammu on Monday.
Security personnel stand guard ahead of the counting of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, at Polytechnic College in Jammu on Monday.
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Authorities in Indian-occupied Kashmir are expected to announce results from the enclave’s first local election in a decade on Tuesday — and if exit polls are to be believed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party will come up short despite their claims to have brought peace to the region.

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What's the situation of Europe one year after the October 7th attack against Israel? What's the main takeaway from the visit of the new NATO Secretary General to Kyiv? Carl Bildt, former prime minister of Sweden and co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, shares his perspective on European politics from Lisbon, Portugal.

The families of hostages held in Gaza hold a silent protest to mark one year since the October 7 attack by Hamas during which their loved ones were taken hostage, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 7, 2024.
REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

As Israel marked the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre, Hamas and Hezbollah both launched rocket attacks on heavily populated areas of the country, wounding at least two Israeli women, and forcing evening memorials to be scaled down in size over security concerns.

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You’ve heard of Bidenomics, but what about burgernomics? Allow us to introduce you to the Big Mac Index, which uses the price of a McDonald's Big Mac to assess whether currencies are over- or undervalued relative to the US dollar. It's also a good measure of inflation – a hot topic for the US election.

Soldiers from the Rwandan security forces are seen near the Afungi natural gas site in Mozambique on Sept. 22, 2021.
REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo

Mozambicans will vote on Wednesday amid improving prospects for ending an insurgency in the North and completing several lucrative natural gas projects. Will Frelimo, which has ruled Mozambique for most of the period since independence in 1975, win again? What are the main issues in this election? We spoke with Eurasia Group expert Ziyanda Stuurman to learn what concerns are animating voters.

Plane descends through air strike smoke to land at airport in Beirut, Lebanon in this screengrab obtained on October 1, 2024.
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The world still awaits Israel’s retaliation against Iran for Tehran’s brazen missile attack last Tuesday.