A prophetic Romanian novel about a town at the mouth of the Danube carries a warning: Europe decays when it stops looking outward. In a world of increasing insularity, the EU should heed its warning.
Thomas de Waal
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Interview with Amal Saad-Ghorayeb on the status of Hezbollah.
Source: NPR's Morning Edition

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