China’s increasing naval power, the country having surpassed the United States as the world’s largest maritime force, is giving Beijing crucial sway
On January 5, 1993, just days before Bill Clinton was inaugurated as U.S. president, the outgoing secretary of state, Lawrence Eagleburger, finished a 23-page memo to his successor, who would be taking over in a few weeks.
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President Biden heads to Florida on Thursday afternoon with a political gift he had not been expecting before Tuesday night’s State of the Union speech.
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On November 21, 2021, FBI agents acting on a court-ordered search warrant seized the personal electronic devices -- cell phones, computers, tablets, and similar items -- of a former Russian diplomat and a retired FBI agent.
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Pope Francis arrived in Kinshasa on Tuesday for a six-day visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan, two fragile African nations where protracted conflicts have displaced millions of civilians, sowing death, hunger and despair.
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Lawrence Freedman has spent his career studying war and diplomacy. A British historian, he specializes in international relations, foreign policy, and strategy.
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The Department of Justice has charged three members of an Eastern European criminal group with ties to Iran with attempting to assassinate a prominent U.S. journalist and activist critical of the Iranian regime
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“As we move into 2023, the Syrian people remain trapped in a profound humanitarian, political, military, security, economic and human rights crisis of great complexity and almost unimaginable scale,” said Geir Pedersen, UN Special Envoy for Syria.
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Marat makes a net income of about $215 a month, which he says is enough for a comfortable life as a young, single man in the Kazakh town of Oral, which he now calls home.
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Ukrainian forces held out against a fresh wave of Russian attacks in the east, the military said on January 23, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy renewed his call for Germany to send Leopard tanks amid indications that Berlin is ready to show more flexibility on the issue.
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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene – who is, to put it mildly, bonkers – has been named to the House Homeland Security Committee.
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