Can the Arctic Council Survive?

With the rift over Greenland, the intergovernmental body finds itself in troubled waters again.
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With the rift over Greenland, the intergovernmental body finds itself in troubled waters again.
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Foreign Policy
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Hezbollah plunged Lebanon into war with Israel in early March. Six weeks later, the group, which had suffered setbacks in 2024, is still putting up a fight. But how? And can the Lebanese government succeed in getting the militant group to disarm? In this edition of Middle East Matters, we are joined by Dr. Matthew Levitt, Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute and Director of its Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
Final convoy of US soldiers and equipment departs Qasrak air base in the northeastern governorate of Hasakah.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun held a phone call with Donald Trump on Thursday during which he thanked the US leader for his "efforts" to secure a ceasefire with Israel, the presidency in Beirut said. The call comes after Aoun rejected a US request for a "direct call" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to an official Lebanese source, and a day after Trump announced an expected call between the two countries' "leaders". FRANCE 24's Cyril Payen reports from Beirut, Lebanon.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that internet restrictions, which it conceded had caused disruption to many Russians, were needed for security reasons, but that they were temporary in nature and would be lifted once it was safe to do so. Authorities shut down the mobile internet in Moscow for nearly three weeks in March and regularly block it elsewhere across the world's largest country, citing the risk of Ukrainian drones using it to guide attacks.