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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants his country to reclaim its status as a regional power. Embodying an ideology often referred to as neo-Ottomanism, he ...

In 2024, conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and tight monetary policies contributed to a slowing global economy. Yet, global unemployment remained stable at 5 percent, its lowest level in ...

(click to enlarge) U.S. tariffs on Canada and Mexico, if implemented, will likely disrupt the global aluminum market. A similar pattern emerged during U.S. President ...

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Turkey is resurging as a regional power. The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria in 2024 and Azerbaijan’s takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023 demonstrate Ankara’s growing ability to project power ...

U.S. and India. During talks in Washington this week, U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to intensify defense cooperation. In a statement, India said the ...

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Planning negotiations. U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Wednesday. The Kremlin said they discussed a prisoner exchange, the situation in Ukraine, the ...

Reaching out to Moscow. Abkhaz political figure Badra Gunba, who is running for president of the breakaway Georgian region, held talks in Moscow with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak.

“I think someone forgot to say thank you.” This loaded statement, made by French President Emmanuel Macron at the 30th annual Ambassadors' Conference in Paris, reveals much about the state ...

There’s a broad sense of optimism in Lebanon that the election of Joseph Aoun as president earlier this month could bring genuine change after decades of rampant corruption and ...