For the past three decades, Iran and Israel have been engaged in a shadow war. Israel is determined to prevent Iran developing atomic weapons by whatever means necessary. Iran insists on its ‘inalienable right’ to enrich uranium and sees its nuclear programme as essential to its identity and the only way of maintaining regional hegemony.
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It’s a tragically acknowledged fact that rape has become an inevitable part of migration for many women. Often they flee sexual violence in their home countries only to experience it again en-route. But what’s less known is that even when they reach the safety of Europe, they have a significantly higher risk of being sexually assaulted.
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In Japan, strict social codes dictate everything, down to people’s private lives. Men and women are struggling to meet and form relationships while a 2024 survey revealed that 44% of Japanese marriages are sexless. As a result, the country is gradually depopulating. But Japan is determined to do everything in its power to reverse this demographic curve.
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Today, almost 1,000 radicalised people are confined in French prisons. They account for less than 1% of inmates but are at the centre of the country’s political and media coverage.
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The founders of the kibbutz movement dreamed of creating a new type of community, one that lived in harmony with the land according to socialist, egalitarian principles. But, as times have changed, the kibbutz have aged and lost their meaning, slowly abandoning the principles that underlay their creation. Why?
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