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Observers have described the protests against the Gaza war sweeping across U.S. university campuses as President Joe Biden’s Vietnam, in reference to the 1968 demonstrations that coincided with the Democratic convention in Chicago. Coincidentally, Biden will be anointed as the party’s official candidate for the November presidential election in the same city later this year, a prospect that frightens many Democrats who remember how disastrously the convention five and half decades ago played out amid street protests. The president’s political future is increasingly seen as being inextricably linked to securing a ceasefire, and the more distant prospect of a lasting peace, in Gaza ahead of a presidential ballot that is expected to be decided by extremely fine margins and where the Democrats do not enjoy nearly as much support among younger voters as they did in 2020.
In the international sphere, EL PAÍS analyzed another of Washington’s open fronts in the global geopolitical tussle, Africa, where U.S. influence in the fight against jihadist terrorism in the Sahel is increasingly on the wane with Russia waiting in the wings to exert its influence in countries such as Niger and Chad, which have both called for the withdrawal of American forces stationed on their soil. (...).
We also spoke to Jean-Michel Claverie, professor emeritus of genomics at Aix-Marseille University in France, who has spent his long career studying potential threats to humanity lurking in the regions of the planet covered in permafrost. Claverie has recently found five new families of viruses, known as “zombie viruses,” in samples up to 48,500 years old taken from seven different places in Siberia. (...).
We hope you enjoy this selection of articles from El País USA Edition.
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