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Here’s Who Wins as Trump Exits the Paris Climate Accord

By Huileng Tan, CNBC

President Donald Trump's decision to exit an international climate agreement sparked outrage from many quarters, but some countries are likely already eyeing the positives from the move, experts said...
Trump's 'Big Win' in Europe Is the World's Big Loss

By Rob Garver

Leaving the de facto leader of Europe staring into a half-empty beer stein and reassessing everything she and her fellow Europeans thought they knew about the world order and America’s role in it was...
Trump’s Blunders on NATO and Russia Make Our European Allies Cringe

By Patrick Smith

If you thought Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions were politically calculated toss-offs, think again. The interview he gave The Times of London last week put the world on notice: The views Trump...
On Day One, Trump Faces Two Huge Foreign Policy Challenges

By Patrick Smith

Barack Obama isn’t handing Donald Trump any portfolio of foreign-policy successes as he passes the baton the next president. Trump is about to step into a world that his peace-prize-winning...
Why Trump Needs to Hold Countries That Hack and Steal Accountable

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Many assert that President-elect Donald Trump is against free trade. But standing against the theft of intellectual property and old-fashioned mercantilism, as Trump has promised to do, is an...

5 Foreign Policy Challenges President-Elect Trump Faces Before He Unpacks

By Patrick Smith

Foreigners always watch U.S. elections, but rarely with the edge-of-the-seat suspense evident as the votes were tallied Tuesday. With Donald Trump’s dramatic victory, they’re as much in the dark as...
Blimey! British Brexit Has a New Hurdle: Parliament Must Approve

By Griffe Witte, The Washington Post

LONDON — A senior British court on Thursday dealt a severe blow to Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to begin the process of exiting the European Union early next year, ruling she must get...
Britain’s Tarnished Sterling: A Global Warning for Theresa May on Brexit

By Patrick Smith

At 7:07 last Friday in Hong Kong, the British pound suddenly plummeted: In the next two minutes it fell 6.1 percent, to $1.18, its lowest level since 1985. In the next half hour, it regained most of...
Erdoğan Is Destroying Turkey’s Hopes for Democracy

By Hilton L. Root

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s extra-legal roundup of scores of presumed supporters of the failed July 15 coup against his government is quickly taking its place in modern history alongside...
Italexit: Is the Eurozone’s Third Largest Member on the Way Out?

By Desmond Lachman

Europe has seemingly coped well with its recent Brexit shock, but now looms the prospect that Italy might be heading for the Eurozone’s door. This should be of great concern to European and global...

Greece stuck in recession, bailout targets at risk

By Harry Papachristou and Renee Maltezou, Reuters

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's recession eased slightly in the second quarter but not nearly enough to boost tax revenues to levels the government needs to meet its bailout targets, figures showed on...
Mursi supporters stand firm, brace for Egypt crackdown

By Yasmine Saleh and Angus MacSwan, Reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamist supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi refused to abandon their protest camps in Cairo on Monday and said they would fend off any police crackdown with sticks,...
Palestinian prisoner release on track after court ruling

By Allyn Fisher-Ilan, Reuters

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's plans to free 26 Palestinian prisoners to help underpin renewed peace talks remained on track on Tuesday after its High Court rejected an appeal against their release...
Former PM favorite for president in run-off vote to heal Mali

By Daniel Flynn and Tiemoko Diallo, Reuters

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Poll workers in Mali began counting votes in Sunday's high stakes presidential runoff, with former Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita tipped to claim the difficult job of...
Merkel challenger tries to calm storm over east German jibe

By Noah Barkin, Reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrueck travelled to eastern Germany on Saturday to try to calm a storm over his recent comments suggesting opponent Angela Merkel lacked passion for...

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