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​An Indian security personnel stands guard as women voters queue to cast their ballots at a polling station during the Budgam Assembly constituency bypoll in Budgam district, Jammu and Kashmir, on November 11, 2025.
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What We’re Watching: Modi tested in India elections, Iraq election promises little, Cambodia-Thailand truce on the rocks

What We’re Watching: Putin’s progress, Italy’s right turn, a not-so-great Iraqi resignation
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What We’re Watching: Putin’s progress, Italy’s right turn, a not-so-great Iraqi resignation

How far will Putin push NATO?
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How far will Putin push NATO?

Vladimir Putin is testing Europe's red lines with drone incursions, sabotage, and cyberattacks. Who will draw the line before conflict spreads further? Ian Bremmer explains.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi speaks during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not pictured) at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany October 20, 2020.
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What We're Watching: A powder keg in Iraq

announced, in Sadr City, in Baghdad People celebrate on the street after preliminary results of Iraq's parliamentary election were announced, in Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq October 11, 2021
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What We're Watching: Few Iraqis vote, Czech Republic in crisis, China-India talks crash again

Iraq has elections this weekend — will anybody show up?
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Iraq has elections this weekend — will anybody show up?

Iraq holds on Sunday its first election since a widespread protest movement ousted the government in 2019, against a backdrop of still-elevated economic, social, and security tensions in the oil-rich country. Eurasia Group analyst Sofia Meranto explains what's at stake in the vote.