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Billionaires reach for the stars while world suffers
With all due respect to Jeff Bezos and other billionaires who plan to spend billions of dollars of their personal wealth on space travel, hundreds of millions of children who lack access to basic health care and schooling more urgently need help right here on Earth.
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A Romanian village feels the country’s emigration pain
In tale repeated across Eastern Europe, population dwindles as young go west for better jobs.
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2018 SDG Index and Dashboards
The 2018 SDG Index and Dashboards Report “Global Responsibilities – Implementing the Goals,” prepared by the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), is available now on www.sdgindex.org.
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Trump calls for Russia to be reinstated to G7
President Trump on Friday called for Russia to be reinstated to the group of leading industrial nations meeting at the G-7 summit in Quebec, saying the Kremlin “should be a part” of the talks.
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Ukrainian elections: Poroshenko and proliferating populists
Four years after Euromaidan, the overall picture is bleak. Former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko has established a lead in the polls – but she has done so by profiting from social and economic problems rather than addressing past faults.
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Europe is on the verge of a big new crisis, just six years after the last one
Could it be that Europe is facing yet another existential crisis, six years after financial meltdown threatened the eurozone's collapse?
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Warsaw to Trump: Let’s make a military deal (without NATO)
It’s the kind of HUGE deal that Donald Trump promised would be a hallmark of his presidency: Poland wants a U.S. Army armored division permanently stationed on its territory as a deterrent against Russia, and it’s willing to pay up to $2 billion to make it happen.
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Abe expresses hope for peace treaty progress as he departs for summit with Putin
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left for Russia on Thursday to hold a summit with President Vladimir Putin and to attend an economic forum, with bilateral economic cooperation likely to be high on the agenda.
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5 takeaways from EU’s big Balkan get-together
It wasn’t a renewal of the wedding vows because the big ceremony never happened. It was two partners declaring they still want to be engaged — even though one is now playing hard to get.
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A Reckoning for Obama's Foreign-Policy Legacy
Veterans of the last administration are learning a hard lesson: Policies constructed by executive order and executive agreement are just as easily blown up by them.
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Trump’s only possible Iran strategy is a fantasy
Jeb Bush said Donald Trump would be a “chaos president.” And this week, President Trump lived up to the billing, choosing to defy virtually the entire world, including America’s closest European allies, and raising tensions in the most unstable part of the globe, the Middle East.
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UN puts brave face as climate talks get stuck
UN talks have been officially suspended as countries failed to resolve differences about implementing the Paris climate agreement.
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Can America's Credibility Survive the Death of the Iran Nuclear Deal?
It was never obvious that Donald Trump knew much about the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal with Iran, but he knew the important parts: It was Obama’s deal. It was a deal with Iran.
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AI will spell the end of capitalism
Feng Xiang, a professor of law at Tsinghua University, is one of China’s most prominent legal scholars. He spoke at the Berggruen Institute’s China Center workshop on artificial intelligence in March in Beijing.
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The Fracturing of the Transatlantic Community
The national security consequences of increasingly polarized publics have not yet registered in debates about the collective defense of the West.
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Africa and globalisation: Transforming from taker to shaper?
In recent years, a growing number of G20 nation states have used various forms of summit diplomacy to enhance engagement with the African continent through regular high-level meetings.
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Corey Lewandowski Is Offering Phone Calls With Trump As He Looks for Lobbying Work in Serbia, Politician Claims
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has been accused of traveling to Serbia to seek a lobbying contract with the country’s President Aleksandar Vucic and offering to set up phone calls between the Serbian leader and President Donald Trump.
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The United States, Russia and the 'No Cost' Paradigm
Washington think tanks can churn out studies about Russia, but the rationale behind them usually lack deep, strong roots sunk into the American public.
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Solar energy is at risk
For decades, solar power has been a bit player in the energy industry, overshadowed by fossil fuel giants. But today, solar is booming.
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War and the Asymmetry of Interests
This past weekend, I attended a re-enactment of the Battle of Lexington, the battle that started the American Revolutionary War, in Massachusetts. The pleasure of being with children and grandchildren was my primary motive.
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The collapse of the “Chinese collapse” theory
In Japan, they call it “the collapse of the ‘Chinese collapse’ theory.” The line, which harks back to more than a decade of dire predictions about China, is a joking way to describe the state of the Middle Kingdom’s economy.
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How EU milk is sinking Africa’s farmers
European multinationals are aggressively pursuing one of milk’s few growth markets, where locals say they can’t compete.
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U.S. politicians get China in Africa all wrong
In Washington, Republicans and Democrats generally look at China as a new imperial power in Africa: bad news for Africans.
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China: A ‘Strategic’ Threat?
The Pentagon’s latest National Defense Strategy rests on some shaky assumptions.
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How Trump Schooled Xi In 'Art Of The (Trade) Deal'
If you really want to understand President Trump's trade policies, don't read an economic text. Instead, you should read his 2004 bestseller, "The Art of the Deal." Trump's trade-negotiating tactics are straight from his book.
