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Unlike the US, which has a public commitment to keeping Israel more militarily powerful than any other country in the region and which has expended endless diplomatic resources to defend its conduct, Russia will back either the Israelis or the Arabs depending on where its interests lie on a particular issue.
FORBES: Two Recent Examples of Russia as a Non-ideological Power
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EuroNews's problem, paradoxically, is that its origins lie in the ideal of a united Europe.
ECONOMIST: Unsnoozing the continental news
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The last significant mountains before the Sahara are the arid, pink-and-ochre-coloured chain of the Anti Atlas, and beneath the arid, jagged mass of its two major peaks lie lush irrigated valleys and a string of oases.
BBC: Trekking the unexplored mountains of Morocco