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Turkey leader to press Obama for greater U.S. role on Syria
WASHINGTON — President Obama faces a fresh test Thursday of his determination to steer clear of the civil war in Syria when he considers a desperate plea from a longtime U.S. ally. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to urge...
Tags: Government, Religion and Belief, Islam, U.S. Department of Defense, National Government
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USAID develops a bad reputation among some foreign leaders
WASHINGTON — When Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development from his impoverished country last week, he complained that Washington "still has a mentality of domination and submission" in the region. It...
Tags: Freedom of the Press, Russia, Egypt, Bolivia, Relief and Aid Organizations
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North Korea belligerence looms ominously over Iran nuclear talks
More carrot, less stick. That’s the advice of some nonproliferation experts for the United States and its five partners in negotiations that resume Friday aimed at dissuading Iran from building a nuclear bomb. But with threats of nuclear...
Tags: Government, National Government, Iran's Nuclear Program, United Kingdom, Weaponry
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Message to Russian oligarchs: Your money's just as safe at home
It’s been a rough week for Russian oligarchs, with the apparent suicide of exiled Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky as well as a Eurozone rescue of Cyprus expected to come largely at the expense of Russian high rollers who stashed their wealth in...
Tags: Brookings Institution, Russia, Heart Attack, Criminals, Cyprus
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Could tiny Cyprus trigger collapse of the Eurozone?
It’s being marketed as a one-time tax -- a civic donation to the nation’s financial stability. But the people of Cyprus know it by another name: expropriation. A government plan to siphon as much as 10% from individual bank deposits to co-...
Tags: European Central Bank, Political Fundraising, International Monetary Fund, Cypriot Banking Crisis (2013), Economy, Business and Finance
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France, Western allies likely to be mired in Mali for years
French troops backing a Mali government campaign to retake the northern half of the country from Islamic militants have been cheered as liberators since their convoys rolled into historic Timbuktu this week and hundreds of paratroopers dropped from the...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Islam, France, Western Africa, North Africa
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Google this: North Korea open to Western help with Net upgrade?
A freelance diplomatic foray to North Korea by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Google executive Eric Schmidt has kicked up both controversy and expectations of insights into the inscrutable Hermit Kingdom. State Department officials...
Tags: Cheese Corn, Woodrow Wilson, Asia, Jimmy Carter, Burma
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A deadly denouement for foreign troops in Afghanistan
World NowGlobal Focus: The Netherlands pulled out of Afghanistan two years ago. Canada brought home its contingent last year. France, the fifth-largest contributor of troops to the International Security Assistance Force, will exit the war by the end of this year.... -
China-U.S. power play at core of East Asian island disputes
World NowAt first glance, it seems to make little sense that China and U.S. allies in the Western Pacific would dredge up old fights over uninhabitable islands, provoking nationalist protests, diplomatic rifts and a threat of violent confrontation in a strategic... -
Islamophobia as free speech -- a notion that escapes many Muslims
World NowRighteous condemnation erupted worldwide Wednesday after an anti-Islam video incited mobs in Libya and Egypt and fed into the radical Islamic narrative that the United States is waging war against Muslims. Religious and political leaders denounced the... -
Latest threat to the Eurozone: Catalonia independence quest
World NowGlobal Focus: Just when it seemed stability was on the horizon for the tumultuous Eurozone, with Spain getting a grip on its debt financing and a plan to bail out insolvent banks, a fresh threat to the common currency has emerged with Catalonia's... -
U.S., allies marshaling African proxies for fight against terrorism
World NowGlobal Focus: “A quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.” That was how British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain saw the Nazi threat against the Czech Sudetenland in 1938, a sentiment freshly evoked among war-...
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