Egyptian Singer Umm Kulthum Still Enthralls, Fifty Years After Her Death
The musical diva of the Arab world is commemorated in Paris. And tariff threats have Prosecco lovers stocking up.
What’s Trump’s beef with South Africa?
Trump has accused South Africa of “human rights violations” and a land grab. The South African government has hit back.
Is there a Trump Doctrine for Foreign Policy?
A lot of labels have been applied to Trump’s foreign policy approach. America First, Isolationist, transactional, imperialist, protectionist. “I’m a nationalist and a globalist” he told the Wall Street Journal during his first term.
In his inaugural address last month, Trump made comments suggesting his foreign policy will be characterized by restraint, saying, in part, success should be defined by the “wars we never get into.”
Yet in the same address, he also said, the United States will take back the Panama Canal.
In his first campaign, Trump ran on the idea that the cycle of the United States intervening in the Middle East should come to an end.
And on Tuesday of this week, he said that the U.S. will “take over” the Gaza Strip, after relocating the Palestinians, who live there.
Trump has promised a new approach to American foreign policy. Is there a Trump Doctrine? And what is it?
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A closer look at the short- and long-term ramifications of freezing USAID
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The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land from the grasp of others.
Humanitarian groups alarmed by the Trump administration’s gutting of USAID
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Rwanda-backed rebels tell residents of captured eastern Congolese city they are safe
The rebels continued advances in eastern Congo despite their own announcement of a cease-fire. The U.N. secretary-general called for them to lay down their guns and agree to mediation.
Palestinian Reaction to President Trump’s Gaza Takeover Comment. And- Gaza’s Police.
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Threat of a trade war has Canadians and Americans in border towns on edge
The people Massena, N.Y., and Cornwall, Ontario, are on the front line of the tariff dispute between their two nations.
USAID unions sue Trump administration to halt ‘unconstitutional and illegal’ cuts
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