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A member of Nepal army stands guard as people gather to observe rituals during the final day of Indra Jatra festival to worship Indra, Kumari and other deities and to mark the end of monsoon season,.
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What We’re Watching: Nepal’s protesters pick a leader, Trump courts Belarus

Nepal’s “Gen-Z” protest movement has looked to a different generation entirely with their pick for an interim leader. Protest leaders say they want the country’s retired chief justice, Sushila Karki, 73, to head a transitional government.

US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy meets Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.
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What We're Watching: Tsai in California, Lukashenko in Moscow, no Easter in Nicaragua

After US speaker meets Taiwan's prez, all eyes on China; Lukashenko's delicate dance; Nicaraguan strongman cancels Easter

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, Belarus.
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Putin’s muscle flex in Belarus

Russia’s Vladimir Putin is scrambling this week to project strength and confidence in support of a war effort in Ukraine that’s gone terribly wrong. First stop: Belarus.

What We’re Watching: War spillovers, Biden bolstering allies, Modi’s free trade rethink, Russian defection
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What We’re Watching: War spillovers, Biden bolstering allies, Modi’s free-trade rethink, Russian defection

Ukraine war spillover, Biden bolsters trade ties ahead of Europe talks, Modi’s trade policy U-turn, ignoring Russia’s first elite defection

Will Belarus join the war?
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Will Belarus join the war?

If Vladimir Putin asks, that would put strongman President Alexander Lukashenko in a very tough spot.

What We’re Watching: EU vs everyone, Austria vs the unvaccinated, India vs smog, Barbados vs real world
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What We’re Watching: EU vs everyone, Austria vs the unvaccinated, India vs smog, Barbados vs real world

What We’re Watching: Eastern Europe border crisis, US-China climate pledge, Bolsonaro’s a centrist now
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What We’re Watching: Eastern Europe border crisis, US-China climate pledge, Bolsonaro’s a centrist now

Belarus president exploiting migrants to pressure EU on sanctions
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Belarus president exploiting migrants to pressure EU on sanctions

What's the nature of the migration crisis between Belarus and Poland? What's going to be the effect of Vice President Kamala Harris' visit to Paris? Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden, shares his perspective from Europe.

The EU’s two big Eastern problem(s)
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The EU’s big Eastern problems

A migrant crisis on the Belarus-Poland border, and fresh Russian sabre-rattling near Ukraine. It's shaping up to be a tough winter along the EU's eastern flank. Why can't Brussels cope?

Migrants are seen on the Belarusian-Polish border. Nearly 1,000 refugees were heading towards the Polish border in the morning of November 8, 2021.
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What We're Watching: Migrants flood Polish border, Czech Republic's unwieldy coalition, Kuwait's government steps down