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Europe braces itself with trepidation as the specter of Donald Trump potentially reclaiming the Oval Office looms ever larger. The shared apprehension centers around the possibility that he may restore his previous rapport with Vladimir Putin, to the detriment of Ukraine. As Trump’s tenure in office demonstrated, his admiration for the Russian leader is far from subtle. During the infamous Helsinki summit in 2018, he even prioritized Putin’s claims over U.S. intelligence assessments, signaling a profound shift in American…

It was the surreal hour of 3 a.m. in November 2020 when Zakariya Sayid reached out to his dad with life-altering news. Over a crackling phone line, he revealed their intention to let go of The Horn, a beloved establishment they had set up in tribute to his father in 2014. His father, Hassan Rasul, was far away in Somalia, tending to his own mother at that very moment. Despite the distance, the news hit him hard. The café, located at 619 Murfreesboro Pk., was already wrestling with challenges, made worse by the pandemic.…

In recent months, the southern part of West Africa's most populous country has seen a resurgence of self-determination groups. This is the case with the Igbo groups in the southeast and Yoruba in the southwest. Olufemi Vaughan, a professor at Amherst College in the United States, discusses these privacy tendencies, which continued despite the arrest in late June of Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu and a police…