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DoD report shows increasing consternation over oil-rich Riyadh pleading ignorance over 7-year-old invoice

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EU hypocrisy on parade as Netanyahu goes to Hungary  without a peep

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Can Trump wait for a deal with Iran?

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What happens to EU's anti-war bloc without Marine Le Pen?

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Who is Lee Jae-myung, Yoon's potential replacement?

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Diplomacy Watch: Rubio recommits to NATO as peace talks flounder

Deaths of US soldiers put European deployments in spotlight

Bernie's effort to halt weapons to Israel fails miserably in Senate

Sens. Paul and Merkley to Trump: Are we 'stumbling' into another war?

Asia-Pacific

Lai Ching-te Taiwan China

Taiwan's president turns up heat against China — way up.

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How the US bankrolled Duterte's alleged crimes against humanity

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Too optimistic? Azerbaijan-Armenia peace deal looms at last

Kim Jong Un reminds Trump they have unfinished business

Kim Jong Un reminds Trump they have unfinished business

Middle east

Mohammed bin Salman

Deadbeats! Saudis won't pay $13.7M bill for US military fuel

DoD report shows increasing consternation over oil-rich Riyadh pleading ignorance over 7-year-old invoice

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Ukraine could become 'dysfunctional ward' of Westplay icon

Ukraine could become 'dysfunctional ward' of West

Washington Politics

JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn't he?

JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn't he?

Wall Street Stock Exchange

Emergency! Trump's use of extraordinary powers for tariffs

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The Israeli-American Trump mega-donor behind speech crackdowns

Chas Freeman

16 yrs ago, Chas Freeman was smeared out of a job at DNI, too

Africa

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Sudan

Saudi Arabia chooses sides in Sudan's civil war

Trump tasks first time envoy with the most complex Africa conflict

M23 & Rwanda are trying to redraw the map and it's all about to blow

Nigeria’s war on Boko Haram has more than a USAID problem

Latin America

Celso Amorim Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

How Brazil will dance with Trump's America

Trump's Latin American sticks could end up stuck in his spokes

Lobbyists pushing disastrous 'Plan Ecuador' for struggling president

Grenell vs. Rubio: Team Trump's competing Latin America visions

Europe

Viktor Orban Netanyahu

EU hypocrisy on parade as Netanyahu goes to Hungary  without a peep

What happens to EU's anti-war bloc without Marine Le Pen?

German leaders miscalculated popular will for war spending

Alexander Vindman's new book is a folly: of history, and the truth

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Trump should take the victory in Canada and move on

Trump should take the victory in Canada and move on

What awaits Marco Rubio in the Caribbean

Haiti's crisis deepens as foreign troops struggle to curb violence

Trumponomics: Global South is girding for tariffs — or not

Military Industrial Complex

Musk Hegseth

DOGE wants to cut the Pentagon — by 0.07%

His recently announced meager $580m reduction is just an exercise in reshuffling

Media

Alexander Vindman's new book is a folly: of history, and the truth

Alexander Vindman's new book is a folly: of history, and the truth

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The Israeli-American Trump mega-donor behind speech crackdowns

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Fareed Zakaria, stuck somewhere in 1950 or 1995, is wrong again

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Global Crises

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How Trump tariffs are affecting allies, frenemies, adversaries

Every corner of the planet is feeling the shock, but some are facing more peril than others.