China The WSJ reports that Italy is trying to negotiate a smooth end to its participation in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which hasn't proven to be as prosperous as Italy had hoped it wo …

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Gabon Many reports suggest the coup in Gabon has strong popular support: Gabonese are fed up with economic stagnation over 56 years of Bongo family rule. If it holds - which appears likely, given the …

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Russia Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and other members of Wagner's top brass were killed by an apparent explosion aboard their Embraer Legacy 600 private plane over Russia.Western officials …

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Ukraine and Russia Having just secured his first firm commitments for F-16s from the Netherlands and Denmark, Pres. Zelensky joined Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis - who's been a strong supporter of Ukr …

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Ukraine and Russia U.S. officials estimated that almost 500,000 Russians and Ukrainians have died in the 18 months since Russia invaded Ukraine - including up to 300,000 Ukrainian civilians, 120,000 …

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Coming Up This Week South Africa is hosting a meeting of BRICS leaders Tuesday through Thursday. Pres. Putin agreed not to attend to spare South Africa the awkward dilemma of whether or not to comply …

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