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World- In New Delhi, officials and analysts alike awaited the results of the U.S.
- President Donald Trump’s mercurial and idiosyncratic policies both at home and abroad—with few constraints on his choices—have rippled through global…
- India has suffered especially from recent U.S.
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World- While Israelis were still coming to terms with the uncertain outcome of their own Oct.
- President Donald Trump chose the day of the U.S.
- midterms to further discombobulate the Israeli public.
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World- In South Korea, the term byeorak-geoji means “sudden beggar.” In 2026, it has gained widespread popularity again.
- Rather than denoting sudden bankruptcy or losing one’s life savings in the stock market…
- Such anxiety is driven by a booming domestic semiconductor industry that has a stranglehold on the global artificial intelligence industry’s…
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World- Welcome to Foreign Policy ’s Southeast Asia Brief.
- The highlights this week: Indonesia’s former chief of police is arrested on suspicion of wiretapping the president…
- Welcome to Foreign Policy ’s Southeast Asia Brief.
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World- The highlights this week: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is accused of having an affair with a Chinese spy…
- The highlights this week: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is accused of having an affair with a Chinese spy…
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s connections to Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman who U.S.
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World- Riding high on the midterm elections’ blue wave…
- “What you are looking at behind me is a mandate,” U.S.
- Rep.-elect Claire Valdez, who is a Democratic Socialist, said at a Sunday press conference introducing the new progressive House lawmakers.
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World- Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the sticking points in Russia-Ukraine peace talks, impeachment proceedings against U.S.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Israeli efforts to form a new government.
- Russia, Ukraine, and the United States kicked off trilateral peace talks in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday…
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World- This year’s op-eds and magazine features induce déjà vu.
- The 2003 invasion of Iraq was supposed to clear the way for a new, democratic Middle East.
- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s phrase, the “birth pangs” of a new Middle East.
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World- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held a rare press conference on Tuesday morning as he faced the prospect of impeachment…
- “What one disgruntled and defeated congressman is attempting is not oversight, and it’s not accountability.
- It’s a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment.
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World- To hear this entire conversation, and more episodes in the weeks ahead…
- Israel has been in political gridlock ever since its elections on Oct.
- 27, with neither bloc of parties having achieved the clear 61-seat threshold for a majority in parliament.
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World- For the first time in living memory—and potentially for the first time in U.S.
- history—voters cited corruption as their leading concern in last week’s midterm elections.
- Given what we’ve seen over the past few years, perhaps this isn’t surprising.
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World- In a few months, Europe will mark a date of great moment.
- The Treaty of Rome, signed in March 1957, established what came to be the European Union.
- The 70th anniversary celebrations will, however, be relatively low-key.
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World- Deadly flooding sweeping the American Southwest .
- Unrelenting downpours clobbering South America .
- A punishing drought gripping Southeast Asia .
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World- The unprecedented terrorist attack on a church in Jordan last month that killed nine people and injured at least 34…
- It should raise even greater concern about how Jordan’s government has used billions in U.S.
- security assistance and more than a decade of support for countering violent extremism.
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World- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s name wasn’t on the ballot in last week’s midterms…
- Vance, have blamed the Iran war for their midterms wipeout.
- With Hegseth having played a key role prosecuting and cheerleading the war, he’s a prime target for intraparty retribution post-midterms.
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World- Nvidia, the United States’ foremost national champion in its effort to lead the global technology race…
- Huang admitted to the affair in an email to Nvidia’s 42,000-plus employees on Sunday…
- “Leading Nvidia is the privilege of my life,” Huang wrote.
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World- Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the chances of a U.S.-Iran peace deal…
- President Donald Trump hosted Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at the White House on Monday…
- But as Washington and Tehran remain unwilling to make concessions to end the war…
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World- Thomas Massie introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth…
- Massie, a Republican who will leave Congress in January…
- Hegseth will be the first civilian leader of the U.S.
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World- International order is not the absence of conflict, nor is it the rigid defense of the status quo.
- Rather, it is the existence of predictable mechanisms to manage inevitable disagreements.
- And the primary mechanism tasked with upholding international peace and security—the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)—is no longer fit…
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World- Could Israeli politics get more complicated?
- Israeli President Issac Herzog tapped Gadi Eisenkot over the weekend to form the next government.
- You would think that means the opposition parties led by Eisenkot—known in Israel as the “change bloc”—are on the verge…
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World- At a political rally in Arizona in October, U.S.
- President Donald Trump joked that he “probably went a little too far” with the U.S.-Israeli military strikes against Iran…
- The electoral catastrophe that unfolded for Republicans in the midterms a few weeks later made this abundantly clear.
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World- With the midterm elections over, the future of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hangs in the balance.
- Hakeem Jeffries, who is set to be speaker of the house…
- The Defense Secretary is one of the most controversial figures in President Donald Trump’s cabinet…
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World- With the midterm elections over, the future of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hangs in the balance.
- Hakeem Jeffries, who is set to be speaker of the house…
- The Defense Secretary is one of the most controversial figures in President Donald Trump’s cabinet…
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