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Summary: We ask how tensions with Russia and a new US secretary of state will affect political wrangling over Syria and consider the UK’s response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy. Plus: Australia calls for regional co-operation to tackle extremism and Shakespeare and Company defy the rise of online retail by opening two new bookshops in New York.