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What Is the Democrats’ Answer to ‘America First’?

The Democratic Party’s foreign-policy experts assembled what they dubbed a shadow cabinet during President Trump’s first term to counter the new leader’s disruptive approach to global affairs. As Trump harangued allies and threatened to abandon NATO, the group condemned his deference to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his support for the Saudi war in Yemen, proposed alternative policies, and called for a restoration of the rules-based order. The idea was to convene such governmental and...

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Block the bombs: Support grows for US bill to restrict arms for Israel

Block the bombs: Support grows for US bill to restrict arms for Israel ‘Long road’ remains ahead as bill garners 73 co-sponsors one year after its introduction in Congress, advocates say. When Congresswoman Delia Ramirez first announced the Block the Bombs Act to impose a partial embargo against sending weapons from the United States to Israel, only 21 Democratic legislators joined her in supporting the measure. One year later, the legislative proposal now has 73 co-sponsors, a tally that...

Al Jazeera 6d ago

US Congress moves to deepen military ties with Israel: Why it matters

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Al Jazeera 10d ago

100 days into the war on Iran, Trump fails to rally US support

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Al Jazeera 4d ago

What will the fallout be from the unrest in Pakistan-administered Kashmir?

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UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases

Executive summary This report reveals how retired senior British military figures are frequently presented in the UK media as purely independent experts on defence and security matters without mention of their personal commercial and employment interests in the defence, technology, intelligence, and security sectors in those reports. By analysing media reports between 2015 and May 2026, AOAV identified a repeated pattern where almost 60% of former key military personnel with links to the...

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The back-channel bid to go soft on Maduro

When Marco Rubio was named secretary of State, many in both South Florida Republican circles and the American energy industry exulted. But one man who bridged both worlds knew he had a problem. A longtime investor in Venezuela, the main source of crude oil needed to produce the asphalt that had made his family rich, Harry Sargeant III kept relations with top officials in Caracas even as they seized most foreign oil holdings.

Politico EU 2d ago

By the numbers: 100 days of the US-Israel war on Iran

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Deep learning four decades of human migration

Abstract Human migration is a fundamental driver of global demographic change, shaping population structure, labour markets and social policy across countries1,2,3. Although long-term migration patterns are often linked to economic development4, they can shift rapidly in response to shocks such as conflict, environmental crises and political change5. Despite its importance, migration remains difficult to measure consistently: existing data are sparse, concentrated in high-income settings and...

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Trump signs executive order establishing oversight of AI models

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The Independent World 7d ago