Erdogan's future is in doubt, but Turkey's ties to Russia and tensions with the US aren't going anywhere

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A garbage collector walks by a bus with an image of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on May 10.

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China is succeeding in the Middle East because it learned from watching the US fail there for 20 years

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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang shake hands during a meeting in Beijing, China, April 6, 2023
Iranian, Saudi, and Chinese foreign ministers during a meeting in Beijing on April 6.

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The US, its allies, and North Korea are one wrong move away from disaster

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People at the Seoul Railway Station watch a TV broadcast about a North Korean ICBM test in November 2017.

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