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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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May 24, 2012
United States
Egypt’s Historic Elections, Violent Eruptions in Lebanon and Yemen
Significant Middle East Developments Egypt. Egyptians went to the polls for a second consecutive day today for the first free presidential elections in Egypt’s history. The turnout was particularly …
September 26, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
Negotiations to Free Nigeria’s Kidnapped Chibok School Girls
The Nation is carrying credible reports of negotiations between the Jonathan administration and Boko Haram that would swap the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls for nineteen Boko Haram “commanders.” The …
July 11, 2011
Syria
Syria Attacks U.S. Embassy; Now What Is Our Response?
In the last few months the Syrian regime has detained, hooded, and "roughed up" an American official who had diplomatic immunity, and spied on Americans and Syrians protesting in the United States ag…
December 2, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa
Boko Haram Resurgence
President Muhammadu Buhari has repeatedly said that the Nigerian security services would destroy Boko Haram by December. Recently, he has walked back from that optimistic prediction. The reality is t…
July 8, 2011
Syria
Syria Spies on American Protesters
In a remarkable revelation today , the State Department acknowledged that the Syrian Embassy in Washington is tracking Americans, and Syrians visiting or living in the United States, who protest agai…