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Tensions are rising in northwest Africa between the region's two old rivals, Morocco and Algeria.

The key to the latest quarrel is a long contentious strip of land along the Atlantic coast, Western Sahara.

And among the many things, searching in price these days, here's one that should make a story.

Newsprint. We explain why publishers of newspapers are feeding the squeeze.

But first... At first...

At least 2,000 migrants are encamped at Belarus's border with Poland. They're gathered on the European Union's doorstep in forests where they are cold, hungry and desperate.

They've tried breaking through the border fence into Poland.

But they have not made their way to the border independently.

Lukashenko regime starts to behave as a gangster regime because it's hurting them

and they don't know what else to do so.

They try to undermine the European Union by attacking and launching a hybrid attack

against the member states of the European Union.

A spokesperson for the EU said yesterday, it was a tactic of the Belarusian president,

Alexander Lukashenko, importing would-be migrants from the Middle East, dumping them at the

EU's borders and urging them to cross.

These desperate people have become a weapon in an ugly dispute between Belarus and the EU.

Alexander Lukashenko thinks that he is in a great power game right now with the European Union.

He thinks he has identified a real weakness for the EU.

Richard Ensoe writes about Eastern Europe for the economist.

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