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Now displaying: July, 2018
Jul 31, 2018

Iranian officials brush off an offer for leader-to-leader meetings between President Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Three experts help us understand why.

Jul 30, 2018

The U.S. sharply condemns elections in Cambodia and state-sponsored violence in Nicaragua as voting monitors take in a historic presidential vote in Zimbabwe.

Jul 27, 2018

Two days after the EU and US declared a pause in their escalating trade war, a long road remains back to normal trade relations.

Jul 26, 2018

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declare an end to an Ebola outbreak that began in the country’s remote rain forests this Spring.

Jul 25, 2018

Fearful that the loss of NAFTA could plunge Mexico into recession, Mexico's government is eager to continue NAFTA talks with the U.S., despite an imminent leadership change.

Jul 24, 2018

The few U.S. airlines that still treat Taiwan as an independent state appear poised to give in to threats from Beijing, lest they lose access to the Chinese market.

Jul 23, 2018

A new report finds more than 40 million people are subject to modern slavery worldwide, as consumers unwittingly buy billions in 'supply chain slavery' products each year.

Jul 19, 2018

Google and Facebook learn Europe isn't like the regulatory Wild West of the United States.

Jul 18, 2018

Finland's balance of 'western' ties and working relations with Russia provide a model Trump could have followed in Monday's summit with Vladimir Putin.

Jul 17, 2018

President Trump declared Monday that US-Russia relations took a turn for the better after a meeting with Vladimir Putin. Listening to Trump, you'd think the countries had few disagreements.

Jul 16, 2018

Presidents Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki for a "summit" that looks like few summits before it.

Jul 12, 2018

President Trump sparks panic of a possible U.S. pullout from the NATO alliance. Russian-fearing Baltic states desperately hope that doesn't happen.

Jul 11, 2018

Trump publicly chastises NATO allies at a major summit in Brussels. Sir Adam Thomas, former British envoy to NATO, says that strategy could backfire.

Jul 10, 2018

British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a string of high-level resignations prompted by her handling of Brexit.

Jul 6, 2018

U.S. tariffs against China first announced months ago have finally gone into effect, with few signs of an end to a brewing trade war in sight.

Jul 5, 2018

President Trump flexes the power of his pen (and his Twitter fingers) to try and sway NATO spending and global oil prices.

Jul 3, 2018

A Greenpeace stunt in France exposes major gaps in nuclear security. Is the US doing better at guarding its nuclear energy and weapons sites?

Jul 2, 2018

Could Mexico's president-elect become an odd bedfellow with President Trump over immigration?

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