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• Gulf investors bet billions on Uzbek energy transformation
  July 29, 2026
  For decades Gulf money has poured into luxury property markets, trophy assets and the world’s best-known financial centres. But increasingly it is heading to a former Silk Road hub, where ageing gas infrastructure, a
• Taliban and Freedom Front clashes in Badakhshan continue for third day
  July 29, 2026
  Fighting between Taliban and the Freedom Front continued for a third consecutive day on Sunday in parts of the northeastern province of Badakhshan, local sources said, as both sides issued conflicting accounts of the
• Taliban say Uzbekistan seeks faster implementation of joint projects
  July 29, 2026
  Taliban said on Sunday that Uzbekistan is seeking to accelerate the implementation of joint economic projects, following meetings in Kabul between senior Taliban officials and an Uzbek delegation led by Deputy Prime
• Taliban, Freedom Front clash in Badakhshan as fighting enters second week
  July 29, 2026
  Fighting between Taliban and the Freedom Front continued in parts of Badakhshan on Monday, according to local residents and sources within the Taliban, as clashes entered a second week. Residents and Taliban sources in
• Can Western Political Civilization Survive Its Caudine Forks Moment?
  July 29, 2026
  For over a century, the Western civil service model was hailed as the gold standard of modern governance. Today, especially in the US, we are witnessing loyalty replace merit and brazen corruption go unchecked. Drawing
• Le long adieu au dollar
  July 27, 2026
  Il arrive dans l’histoire qu’un système paraisse si parfait qu’il devienne difficile d’en imaginer la fin. À l’époque où la Grande-Bretagne «dominait les mers», on pensait dans une grande partie du monde
• La Chine dévoile de nouvelles contre-mesures face à la procédure d’arbitrage en mer de Chine méridionale
  July 24, 2026
  Le 12 juillet 2026, dixième anniversaire du soi-disant «arbitrage de la mer de Chine méridionale» des Philippines, non seulement le gouvernement chinois est intervenu pour clarifier les faits et dénoncer une fois
• The historical Russia-China axis vs. the Western rewriting of the 1945 order
  July 24, 2026
  The thesis of “shared responsibility” between Nazism and Communism, promoted by European institutions since 2019, and the sustained vote of Germany, Japan and Italy against the UN resolution on the glorification of
• When China Gets Its Own Mythos
  July 24, 2026
  Preparing for an AI Cyber Crisis In April, Anthropic disclosed that its newest frontier AI model, Claude Mythos, could find and exploit security vulnerabilities in software better than “all but the most skilled
• SAS drove prisoners off forklifts ‘for fun’, Afghanistan inquiry told
  July 24, 2026
  Special forces thwarted the ‘normal rules’ and were disconnected from rest of British army, witnesses said Damning evidence of the culture of Britain’s special forces, from their training camps in Herefordshire to