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Four Narrow Waterways Carry the World's Trade. Here Is What Happens When One Closes.
Suez, Panama, Hormuz, Malacca: the global economy runs through a handful of chokepoints most people never think about — until they jam.
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The Veto: How Five Countries Can Stop the United Nations, and Why That Was the Point
The Security Council's veto is the most criticised feature of the UN — and the reason the UN exists at all. An explainer.
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More People Are Displaced Than Ever. The System Meant to Protect Them Was Built for a Different Century.
Over 120 million people are forcibly displaced, on UNHCR's count. The 1951 rules that govern their treatment were written for post-war Europe.