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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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April 17, 2014
United States
This Week: Syria’s Fighting and Spillover Into Lebanon and Jordan
Significant Developments Syria. Regime fighters reportedly made significant progress against opposition forces in Homs this week, as Syrian military forces began entering rebel districts on Monday, …
December 19, 2013
India
Some Background for the Khobragade Case
Since the arrest last Thursday of India’s acting consul general in New York, Devyani Khobragade, U.S.-India relations have hit turbulent waters. Dr. Khobragade has been charged in the Southern Distri…
July 8, 2011
North Korea
The Land of Lousy Options, Indeed.
North Koreans shout slogan during a massive rally at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, to denounce the conservative government of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on July 4, 2011. (Yo…
February 28, 2014
United States
President Obama’s March Summit with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
President Barack Obama hosts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on Monday. The last time the two leaders met together—September 30, 2013, in the same Oval Office—Obama had big news for t…
February 11, 2015
Guatemala
Glimpses of Optimism in Guatemala
The news and statistics from Guatemala are anything but reassuring. More than half the nation’s sixteen million citizens live in poverty. Worse, almost one in two children under five suffer from chro…
