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The United States’ Missed Opportunity in Latin America

When policymakers consider national security, they tend to think first of military capabilities: the weaponry and ammunition a country possesses, the state of its armed forces, its border defenses, its surveillance and cybersecurity. Since 2020, however, U.S. national security strategy has taken a sharply commercial turn. The COVID-19 pandemic and …

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The Strange Resurrection of the Two-State Solution

How an Unimaginable War Could Bring About the Only Imaginable Peace For years, the vision of an Israeli state and a Palestinian state existing side by side in peace and security has been derided as hopelessly naive—or worse, as a dangerous illusion. After decades of U.S.-led diplomacy failed to achieve …

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Houthis damage British cargo ship in new attack

The Iran-backed militants claim to have also shot down an American drone. Yemen’s Houthi rebels shot down a U.S. drone and damaged a Belize-flagged, British cargo ship in their latest assault against commercial vessels, their spokesperson claimed Monday. The Iranian-backed group, which has been targeting commercial shipping since the outbreak …

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Houthis Say They Shot Down a U.S. Drone Off Yemen

The downing of the Reaper drone is another escalation of violence between the United States and Iran-backed groups. The Pentagon is investigating the cause of a crash of an American military surveillance drone off the coast of Yemen on Monday morning, two U.S. officials said. The officials, speaking on the …

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Ukraine : où en est le combat contre la corruption ?

Le 7 novembre 2023, la Commission européenne a officiellement recommandé l’ouverture des négociations avec l’Ukraine et la Moldavie en vue de leur adhésion à l’Union. Parmi les sept exigences que l’UE avait demandé à l’Ukraine de remplir pour accéder à ces négociations, la lutte contre la corruption tenait une place …

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Iran Update, February 19, 2024

The Houthi movement launched an anti-ship ballistic missile that struck and disabled the UK-owned, Belize-flagged Rubymar cargo ship in the Bab al Mandeb strait on February 18.[i] The Rubymar’s Lebanon-based management company said that the vessel took on water after the missile struck the vessel’s engine room.[ii] The Houthi military …

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