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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...

Google risks huge fine under new EU data rules: top official

By Claire Davenport, Reuters

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google's latest privacy policy could land it with a fine of upto $1 billion under a new law allowing Europe-wide challenges to U.S.-based Internet giants, Europe's top justice...
German government agrees 330 troops for Mali support

By Reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's cabinet agreed on Tuesday to send up to 330 armed military personnel to Mali to train its troops and provide logistics and transport for French and West African soldiers...
Armenian president re-elected, opposition cries foul

By Reuters

YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan has won a new five-year term, the Central Electoral Commission said on Tuesday. Police said after polls closed on Monday that they had received...
EU to organize Mali aid donor conference in May

By Reuters

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will hold an international aid conference on Mali in May, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Monday. France sent military forces to Mali in...
Workers and police clash at airport during Iberia strike

By Catherine MacDonald and Sarah Morris, Reuters

MADRID (Reuters) - Striking union workers clashed with police at Madrid's Barajas airport on Monday on the first day of a week-long strike over more than 3,800 pending job cuts at Spain's flagship...

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