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Lebanon's State Security warned the president about the ammonium nitrate 15 days before it exploded. He admitted receiving the warning. Six years later, nobody has been prosecuted. The obstruction was not a failure of the system. It was the system.
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Lebanon's State Security warned the president about the ammonium nitrate 15 days before it exploded. He admitted receiving the warning. Six years later, nobody has been prosecuted. The obstruction was not a failure of the system. It was the system.
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Israeli soldiers nearly struck settlers they mistook for infiltrators on Syrian soil. The group is called fringe. Lebanon's deputy PM warns: Gush Emunim was also a small group facing obstacles. It built the West Bank. The Pioneers of Bashan are laying foundation stones in Syria.
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82 ICC member states voted to remove Karim Khan. 13 voted against. 15 abstained. A judicial panel had cleared him. The Netanyahu arrest warrant he issued sits unexecuted. His deputy who now leads the office is under US sanctions. Whether the removal was justice or politics, the outcome is the same.
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Modi spent three weeks filling stadiums as Vishwaguru. On July 20 his police beat students on parliament street. Their photographs — from the protest stage and from the hospital emergency ward — were in the same international news cycle as the Marvel Stadium footage.
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Lebanon's president spent four days in Washington asking America to move Israel's army from Lebanese territory. He called Trump a great president. Trump said he could have anything. He got airline routes. The territory remains occupied. This analysis reveals the limits of small state strategy.
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