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Bowen: Year of killing and broken assumptions has taken Middle East to edge of deeper, wider war
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Bowen: Year of killing and broken assumptions has taken Middle East to edge of deeper, wider war
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Bowen: Year of killing and broken assumptions has taken Middle East to edge of deeper, wider war
Twelve months on from the 7 October attacks which led to Israel's war in Gaza, our international editor says the region is on the edge of something even worse.
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Bowen: Year of killing and broken assumptions has taken Middle East to edge of deeper, wider war
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