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Now displaying: April, 2018
Apr 30, 2018

South Korea's president says Donald Trump should win Nobel Peace Prize for N. Korea diplomacy, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo weighs in on the Mideast peace process and a deadly blast targets journalists in Afghanistan.

Apr 27, 2018

Christopher Green, Korea expert for the International Crisis Group, helps separate the 'concrete from the amorphous' pledges at Friday's historic inter-Korean summit.

Apr 26, 2018

French President Emmanuel Macron says President Trump will likely withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal next month, and Chinese scientists say North Korea's foremost nuclear test site has collapsed.

Apr 25, 2018

The U.N.'s top human rights export for North Korea urges world leaders to pressure Kim Jung-un on human rights during upcoming diplomatic talks, and Oxford University research recommend mass treatment of malaria to stem anti-malarial resistance.

Apr 24, 2018

China and Russia try to use a U.N. resolution to peer pressure President Trump into sticking with the Iran deal, and Iran threatens to leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty if Trump backs out of the nuclear agreement.

Apr 23, 2018

Mass street protests in Armenia succeed in forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan.

Apr 20, 2018

The U.S. government has awarded a grant to the African affiliate of Focus on the Family to teach an abstinence curriculum in South Africa as a part of U.S. efforts to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. But public health experts say such abstinence programs have little to no effect in reducing risk of HIV, with money better spent on other health interventions.

Apr 19, 2018

America's top nuclear disarmament official says the U.S. and European nations are hard at work on a supplementary agreement to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Apr 18, 2018

Cuba prepares for a historic leadership change, as Miguel Díaz-Canel succeeds Raúl Castro as president.

Apr 17, 2018

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at Mar-a-Lago with a long list of foreign policy and trade objectives.

Apr 16, 2018

The leaders of the United Kingdom and France make their case for joining the U.S. in striking the Assad military's chemical stockpiles, and 173 countries pledge to clean up maritime transport.

Apr 13, 2018

Russia accuses western intelligence of staging a chemical weapons attack in Syria, and a new study shows overwhelming American support for teaching climate change in schools.

Apr 12, 2018

The E.U. proposes consumer protections tailored to the digital economy, and the World Food Program launches a new campaign aimed at reducing food waste.

Apr 10, 2018

The US and its allies weigh the possibility of military strikes targeting Syria's Assad government, and President Trump cancels a trip to Peru at the last minute.

Apr 9, 2018

President Trump mulls a response to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria over the weekend, and a Saudi plan could transform Qatar into an island.

Apr 6, 2018

The U.K. and Russia turn wield literature as a weapon to trade criticism over the handling of a probe into the attempted murder of a former Russian spy.

Apr 5, 2018

Angela Merkel plans a visit to the U.S. to argue for exemptions from President Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs, and Russia's 'oligarchs' could soon be sanctioned over the country's alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

Apr 4, 2018

The U.S. soybean industry panics as China unveils retaliatory trade tariffs targeting American agricultural exports.

Apr 3, 2018

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks back a migrant resettlement deal announced yesterday, and the U.S. pushes for a (possibly premature) NAFTA unveiling.

Apr 2, 2018

China hits the U.S. with $3 billion in import tariffs, Israeli strikes a deal to resettle African migrants, and Malaysia's legislature advances an unprecedented anti-'fake news' law.

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