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Diplomacy — The quiet machinery of statecraft

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Diplomacy

DR Congo: Ebola is killing people before they ever reach a doctor

More than 1,900 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola outbreak – and most of them never made it to a treatment centre. Between 60 and 70 per cent of deaths are happening in communities far from care, a gap that is now central to the…

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Diplomacy

Why the Trump administration will have to accept a Hormuz toll

In the weeks since the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding collapsed, Washington and Tehran have used the time to strengthen their respective positions in the event negotiations resume. For the United States, this has largely taken the form of overt threats…

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Israel is going all out to stop Turkey from getting F-35s

For the first time in years, Washington is discussing Turkey's return to the F-35 program as a serious possibility. At the NATO summit in Ankara last month, President Donald Trump said he would lift the CAATSA sanctions that the U.S. imposed on Turkey after…

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