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Marine Le Pen, the would-be Donald Trump of France
Just a fortnight into his presidency, Donald Trump has scored one clear success. He has inspired Marine Le Pen, the extreme right cougar of French politics, to launch a Presidential bid patterned on...
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Germany next in line for political disorder
Germany, the most stable and prosperous economy in Europe, seems to be heading for disorder ahead of fall elections partly because of the influence Donald Trump’s victory in the US is having on...
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Trump’s troop surge in Syria could scuttle UN peace talks
Embed from Getty Images The Trump administration’s decision to add more ground troops to Syria’s seething cauldron is likely to scuttle United Nations peace talks. It could also be the most toxic of...
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Europeans react with relief and unease at Trump’s healthcare defeat
President Donald Trump’s defeat over the healthcare bill today has sent a small wave of relief in key European capitals. The relief is not because Europeans prefer some other kind of contents for the...
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Suffering in Yemen and South Sudan explodes as UN rages with frustration
Relentless suffering is devouring innocent people by the hour in Yemen and South Sudan while the Trump administration sends confusing signals about its intentions on providing helping hands. United...
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Rising alarm at Trump’s forays into gunboat diplomacy
Many in the US and among close allies think President Donald Trump’s missile strike on a Syrian airfield and dispatch of a nuclear-armed armada against North Korea are restoring Washington’s...
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The futile vanities of Trump’s “mother of all bombs”
President Donald Trump’s “mother or all bombs” – the world’s biggest non-nuclear weapon – dropped on remote mountains in unfortunate Afghanistan has pulverized rocks, shattered local ecology and...
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French elections lurch in unprecedented gloom
New gloom has sundered the already divisive French presidential elections due to begin on Sunday because of the bold terrorist attack in the Champs Elysees avenue, the pride of Paris. A terrorist fired...
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France edges to breaking a smile – Macron leads
France edges to breaking a smile – Macron leads! France is on the edge of breaking a smile in gloomy times! Emmanuel Macron, the audacious 39-year-old “start-up” candidate to its presidency won the...
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French politics: A new era whatever happens on Sunday
Whoever becomes President of France on Sunday, the presidency may never again be the self-important imperial office talking down to the people as it has for many decades. And that would be partly due...
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Macron elected French President but limps on legs of jelly
Kap, Spain Audacious interloper Emmanuel Macron, 39, was elected eighth President of France’s Fifth Republic on Sunday night causing a historic upheaval in French and European politics, similar to that...
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TRUMP AND INDIA’S MODI: TRYING TO BE FRIENDS
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first meetings with President Donald Trump in Washington next week could reveal whether India will become an American military ally in all but name. Trump approved...
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Trump causing G20 concern but is not isolated yet
Many in America and Europe may be disappointed if they prefer to see President Donald Trump isolated at the G-20 summit that opened in Hamburg today. He is not isolated even on climate change and has...
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First Trump-Putin meeting prompts G20 relief
The hotly anticipated meeting between President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin brought relief to the other G20 summiteers because it did not sink into a vituperative “she said, he said, they...
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UN doubtful on Cyprus reunification: possible permanent partition looms...
The angry collapse of UN-sponsored talks to reunify the Greek and Turkish parts of Cyprus after over four decades may lead to the first permanent partition inside the European Union. Announcing...
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Chinese fans of India’s Bollywood stars spotlight peace despite growing...
Chinese and Indian soldiers are staring one another down across the barrels of missile launchers, mortars and high velocity guns in the frozen wastes of the western Himalayas and leech-infested rain...
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Macron’s impromptu overture to Trump – a grand revolutionary parade!
President Donald Trump will be alongside his intellectual opposite Emmanuel Macron of France at the Bastille Day parade on the Champs Elysees in Paris on Friday. It is a gorgeous affair with pomp and...
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UN envoy sees hopeful signs for Intra-Syrian peace talks
President Donald Trump’s meetings with France’s Emmanuel Macron and Russia’s Vladimir Putin underscored an emerging focus on “some priorities and the idea of having some type of common urgency” about...
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UN reports rise in Afghan civilian casualties as Trump tries more troops
A record 1,662 civilians were killed and 3,581 injured in Afghanistan mainly because of Taliban attacks during the first six months of this year, according to the latest United Nations figures....
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UN children’s agency concerned about cholera in Sierra Leone
UNICEF, the UN agency for children, has some heart-breaking information about the devastating impacts of recent torrential rains and floods at Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone, one of Africa’s poorest...
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