Cruise missile strike against Syria on April 7, 2017.
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Was this a one-off intervention – or a sign that Trump will undertake more of an effort to undermine the Assad regime?
Trump boards Air Force One on April 6, 2017.
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‘America First’ apparently doesn’t mean a step away from playing the world’s policeman – and three more things to note about U.S. airstrikes on Syria.
An alliance tested.
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A thawing of tensions between the two superpowers seems as far away as it was under Obama.
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A cloud continues to hover over Russian interference in the US presidential election.
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The Trump administration is facing a tough choice.
A bridge too far?
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China’s One Belt, One Road initiative is holding international summit in Beijing, but no Western leaders have said they are coming yet.
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The rocky relationship between Russia and the West is on a knife edge. But simple dialogue and face-to-face discussions can go a long way to easing tensions.
Clamping down in Moscow.
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Anti-corruption protests in more than 80 cities spell trouble for the 2018 presidential election campaign.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani talks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan on August 8 2016.
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The latest in a series of meetings will see the two countries sign a number of agreements on political and economic matters.
Director James Comey makes it official: The FBI is investigating allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Russian interference in the U.S. election is part of a bigger pattern, according to a former ambassador from Montenegro to NATO.
Pauline Hanson told the ABC she advised people to ‘go out and do their own research’ on the question of vaccination.
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Malcolm Turnbull has slammed Pauline Hanson’s views on vaccination.
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
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This year may be a critical turning point for Syria and the five-year civil war, at least for the Assad regime, which is poised to regain full control of the country. After the crucial Aleppo victory…
We’ll have to see if the Trump administration will have friendlier relations with Russia.
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This year will likely bring a significant improvement in relations between the United States and Russia, as well as a raft of possible changes to global politics. Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin…
Is Putin the new power broker in the Middle East?
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Russia has managed to regain, at least in part, its role as a powerful interlocutor in the Middle East, which it lost after the fall of the Soviet Union.
EPA/Maxim Shipenkov
Vladimir Putin’s aggressive nuclear strategy threatens to unpick decades of careful negotiation.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez rallies with protesters outside the White House.
Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
Research on more than 50 government investigations reveals how partisanship can get in the way of finding answers we all agree on.
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Great powers are often deadly rivals, but their leaders can still learn to communicate properly.
Russian army officers take the oath of allegiance to the Revolution, 1917.
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How is Vladimir Putin - for whom uprisings are anathema - treating this year’s centenary of the Russian revolution?
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There’s is often high drama behind the smiles, photo opportunities and carefully crafted language.
German stock market after US election, November 9, 2016.
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As candidate, Trump promised protectionist trade policies and denigrated international agreements. Now, as president of the United States, how far can he go?