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What does the biggest prisoner exchange in decades tell us about Putin? What's the European reaction to what's happening in the Middle East? Carl Bildt, former prime minister of Sweden and co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, shares his perspective on European politics from the Adriatic Sea.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and US President Joe Biden.
What We're Watching

A US-Iran (prisoner) deal moves forward

On Monday, the Biden administration informed Congress that it had issued a waiver that will allow South Korean banks to transfer $6 billion in Iranian funds frozen by sanctions to Qatar’s Central Bank.

Undated photo posted by Jack Teixeira's mother on Veterans Day Nov 11, 2021 on her Facebook page.
Science & Tech

What We're Watching: Pentagon leaker suspect arrested, Gershkovich swap chatter, Uruguay’s free trade ambitions

And the suspected leaker is ...; Russia is maybe considering swap for Evan Gershkovich; Uruguay’s FTA dream

​A Somali refugee girl carries her sibling in the Hagadera refugee camp near the Kenya-Somalia border, in Garissa County, Kenya, January 17, 2023.
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Hard Numbers: Somalia’s deadly drought, Yemen prisoner swap, North Korean war games, a happier world?

Somalia’s longest-recorded drought claimed 43,000 lives last year, with up to 34,000 more deaths projected in the first half of 2023, according to a new WHO report.