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Comment on this storyComment You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. There’s a well-worn truism about Pakistan that actually stems from 18th-century…

Comment on this storyComment A flurry of backroom negotiations over the ouster of the democratically elected president of the West African nation of Niger intensified Monday after the country’s military junta shut its airspace during a tense regional standoff. The head of the presidential guard, Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, overthrew the…

Comment on this storyComment In the fall of 2020, the National Security Agency made an alarming discovery: Chinese military hackers had compromised classified defense networks of the United States’ most important strategic ally in East Asia. Cyberspies from the People’s Liberation Army had wormed their way into Japan’s most sensitive…

Comment on this storyComment LONDON — The British government on Monday began housing asylum seekers on a hulking barge moored on the Dorset Coast in an effort to cut down on the high costs of housing migrants in hotels — currently running at about $7.6 million a day — and…

EXPERT PERPECTIVE — In the wake of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s 36-hour mutiny and the scant and the confusing smoke signals emanating from the Kremlin since then, evidence of Vladimir Putin’s decision-making disfunction and his way forward are coming into focus.  How he manages these issues in the coming weeks…