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It’s the end of the world (order) as we know it.
The US and its allies currently deploy several ballistic missile defence systems that would be used in the event North Korea actually launched an attack.
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Intercontinental ballistic missiles, such as the one tested by North Korea this week, fly far too high and fast for current missile defence systems to engage with.
A North Korean government picture claiming to show the country’s first successful ICBM test.
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Intentionally or not, Trump’s approach to North Korea makes more sense than many people think.
When Donald Trump looks at Africa, what does he see?
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A new candidate to be the US assistant secretary of state for Africa has ideas that are both refreshing and worrying.
Trump holds a joint news conference with Indian Prime Minister Modi on June 26, 2017.
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A small, but wealthy, population of Indian-Americans is playing a role in transforming US foreign policy toward India.
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Donald Trump’s predecessor once made an empty threat against Bashar al-Assad – and it didn’t end well.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.
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A historian takes us beyond the noise in Washington and examines how US and Russian power and interests compare.
From thaw to chill?
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By rolling back chunks of the Obama deal with Cuba, Donald Trump is giving up just the sort of opportunities he promised to seek out.
Will Trump’s policy put a freeze on the U.S.-Cuba thaw?
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The president restored restrictions on Americans’ travel to Cuba and prohibited transactions with its military. Here’s why, and what’s to come.
Does Trump even want a seat at the table?
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For all the president’s unpredictability, America’s core interests remain the same.
One day after Trump announced his intention to withdraw from the Paris accord on climate, EU and China issued a statement from Brussels that climate change and clean energy ‘will become a main pillar’ of their bilateral partnership.
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Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement strains international relations further and strengthens the resolve of other countries to move forward on climate without the US.
Russia’s supposed influence on Donald Trump’s election victory did not reveal anything about American democracy that Russians did not already suspect.
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Russian media both hint toward the Russian regime’s prowess in influencing the US election, while simultaneously treating the accusation as baseless Western propaganda.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks on a podium as U.S. President Donald Trump listens.
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We asked an expert on diplomacy and foreign policy.
The NATO secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, reaches out to Donald Trump.
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While Donald Trump’s disdain for the alliance has apparently abated, the future is still disturbing.
Woodrow Wilson.
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The 28th president’s ideology has never really gone away.
President Donald Trump with other officials during Arab-Islamic-American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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For Trump, putting America first means that being a global leader on human rights may take a back seat.
Rodrigo Duterte has the opportunity to shape his foreign policy choices in relation to the two competing global powers.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is at an interesting place: leaning on China for financial support, and looking to the US for security cover.
A mariachi band performs during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall, in Monterrey, Mexico.
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Can the U.S. recover its once positive image among Mexicans? Trade, immigration and cultural ties stand to suffer.
North Korean leader Kim Jung-un inspects an outpost and Jangjedo defending force.
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A scholar who has profiled the likes of Saddam Hussein and Vladimir Putin says there is a method to understanding the madness.
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The West’s strategy in Afghanistan has demonstrably failed. Is the stage now set for a much more intense war?