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Syria 'at risk of Balkanisation'

Syria is at significant risk of Balkanisation ,thanks to internal stresses and competing foreign interests since the collapse of the Assad government. The term ‘Balkanisation’ refers to the breaking up of a state into smaller entities, comparable to Yugoslavia’s disintegration

Fact check: Is Sweden as unsafe as Trump says?

The US president recently said that Sweden "has gone from being a country free of crime to a country that now has a lot of crime". The Cube took a look at its homicide statistics and compared them to those in other European countries and the US to see how true this is.