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Despite the hardships of war, Iran’s rulers still have a base of support

Iran is bracing for the possibility of another round of U.S. and Israeli attacks now that the midterm elections are over. The war has driven inflation to almost 90 percent in Iran and has also damaged natural gas infrastructure, forcing people to conserve energy as winter sets in ...  Show more

We visit a Ukrainian city under siege

Kherson is a city in southern Ukraine whose population numbered in the hundreds of thousands before Russia’s invasion of the country. Just a fraction of those people live there today.Russia occupied Kherson for a few months in the early days of the war and ever since Russian forc ...  Show more

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