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Europe’s Immigration Debate Is Hardening as the Numbers Fall
An emergency framework, the Ceuta shock, and declining asylum claims point to a continent moving from crisis management to permanent control

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The World Is Starving in Plain Sight
From Sudan to Somalia, Nigeria and Gaza, the new UN hunger map exposes a global moral failure

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Security Without Illusions: The World Is Safer in Some Places, Deadlier in Others
Haiti, eastern Congo, crypto kidnappings and falling U.S. violent crime reveal a fragmented global security picture

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The New Machinery of Lies: How AI Is Supercharging Disinformation
From Moscow’s content farms to Bangladesh’s ballot box, the world is watching truth lose ground online

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Fortress Europe at a Crossroads: What Falling Arrivals Hide About Our Immigration Future
As irregular entries drop and deportation tools expand, Europe risks turning a technical migration pact into a moral retreat from its own founding values

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Hunger Is No Longer a Distant Warning — It Is a System Failure
New UN data shows famine risk widening, food prices rising, and the world losing ground as conflict, climate shocks, and aid cuts collide.

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Security Is Now a Measure of Global Stability
From record conflict levels to cyber-accelerated risk, the security picture in 2026 is defined less by isolated incidents than by overlapping crises.

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Disinformation’s New Infrastructure: From AI Content Farms to Crowdsourced Watchlists
As synthetic media scales and social platforms become the world’s primary news source, the fight against fake news is shifting from fact‑checking individual lies to mapping and regulating the systems that produce them.

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Fortress Europe or Managed Mobility? The New Politics of Immigration
As the EU Migration and Asylum Pact takes full effect, Europe bets on detention, deportation and digital controls—while quietly courting foreign talent.

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The Age of Manufactured Famine
As food aid collapses and wars multiply, the world sleepwalks into preventable starvation

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Security at a Crossroads: From Cartel Battlefields to Global Fan Zones
Mexico’s World Cup gamble, transnational crackdowns, and oil‑route tensions reveal a world redefining what “security” really means

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Disinformation in 2026: When Falsehood Becomes Infrastructure
AI, social media, and collapsing trust are turning misinformation from a nuisance into a systemic threat.

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