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The World in Brief from The Economist
Putin sees an end to war; Magyar takes office in Hungary, and more
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Vladimir Putin said that he believed that Russia’s war with Ukraine was “coming to an end”; Peter Magyar took office as Hungary’s prime minister, bringing to an end Viktor Orban’s decade and a half in power.
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