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How Friedrich Merz’s EU summit plan on frozen Russian assets backfired
There was no plan B, they said. Until there had to be one.At a little after 9pm on Thursday, the EU’s 27 leaders were presented with an updated version...
When a Crackdown Involving the I.R.A. Backfired, Comically, in “The Ban”
In Dublin in 1981, at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis—an annual convention for what was widely regarded as the Irish Republican Army’s political wing—Danny Morrison, who had become Sinn...
Nigeria banned shea butter exports to help women profit. But it backfired
Rows of women sit low to the ground in the central Nigerian town of Bida, holding sticks that rise and fall in a steady rhythm.The air is filled with...
