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China evacuates over one million as Typhoon Bavi nears

WENZHOU, China, July 11 - China evacuated more than 1.8 million people on Saturday as Typhoon Bavi churned toward the major eastern city of Wenzhou after pummelling Japan's southern Sakishima island chain with heavy rain and violent winds and brushing past northern Taiwan.

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Are you filthy enough for a $700 portable shower?

Hot showers, like electricity, are a luxury that's easy to take for granted. That all changes after a few nights camping at a music festival, a week toiling at a backcountry job site, or overlanding all summer in the great unknown. An itchy scalp and the vague smell of warm

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How US muddle made a bad Iran war a quagmire

We have been loath to write about the ceasefire given the limitations and the ongoing circus around the “framework agreement” but have decided that now is a good time to address the geopolitical realities stemming from the ill-conceived conflict. The ceasefire with Iran has

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When gunning for regime change, be careful what you shoot for

Soon after the Israeli and US attacks on Iran assassinated its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and four of his family members, as well as other senior leaders, President Donald Trump urged Iranians to rise up, saying: “To the great proud people of Iran, I say tonight

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Ambition outguns capacity in US plan to deter China

The US is racing to build a new deterrence architecture against China, but the widening gap between its strategic ambitions and its industrial, logistical and political capacity could leave that posture dangerously incomplete when it is needed most. Last month, the Washington

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The US-Iran ceasefire that never was and never will be

There is a particular rhythm to America’s Middle Eastern wars that has become almost liturgical: the strikes, the declaration of victory, the memorandum of understanding signed with great ceremony, and then, within weeks, the recognition that a piece of paper signed at a palace

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