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Newsletter: Something is rotten in the state of Turkey

In today's newsletter: US President Donald Trump revives his annexationist rhetoric of the arctic island of Greenland, ambassadors in Brussels bristle over what to do about Serbia, and a letter about FIFA is making waves in the European Parliament.

The border killing fields separating India and Bangladesh

On the night of May 31, near Sadipur in Jashore’s Sharsha upazila, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel found a section of the border fence cut open. On the far side stood more than a dozen people, among them women and children, driven to the spot by India’s Border Security

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Can digital sovereignty survive an open trading system?

In the mid-19th century, the expansion of the European railway was hobbled by a paranoid approach to sovereignty: the battle of the gauges. Nations built incompatible track widths to ensure that a neighbor's rolling stock, and its armies, could not cross their borders. This