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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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September 23, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File: Arms Sales to Taiwan
Five F-16 jets fly in formation. (Ho New/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. The Palestinian statehood bid is not the only issue the Obama administration has been struggling with this week. On Wednesd…
December 16, 2011
Middle East Matters This Week: Iraq Withdrawal While Russia Gets Tough
Soldiers at Fort Bragg take pictures as President Obama speaks during his visit to North Carolina on December 14, 2011. The visit is seen as a symbolic end to the war in Iraq (Kevin Lamarque/Court…
January 6, 2012
You Might Have Missed: Special Operations, Drones, and a No-Fly Zone on the Moon
- Kimberly Dozier, “Spec-Ops troops study to be part-spy, part-gumshoe,” Miami Herald, January 3, 2012. Major General Bennet Sacolick said he was shocked at how piecemeal intelligence gathering and …
December 28, 2017
United States
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2017
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
January 20, 2012
Middle East Matters This Week: Failed Conciliation in Syria, Gaza, and Bahrain
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. With scores of Syrians killed daily, the Arab League received its observer mission’s much awaited report on Thursday. Human Rights Watch urged the Arab Le…
