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Using Ukraine Since 1948

The United States has for nearly 80 years seen Ukraine as the staging ground for its once covert and increasingly overt war with Russia...

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A journey through academia and beyond

SEVERAL years ago, I began to introspectively ask myself if my 35 years of national and international service had truly been successful. Initially, the answer seemed obvious — of course, I was successful. As a professor at various universities in the United States...

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US unveils sweeping sanctions on Russia

The United States announced a raft of sanctions on Wednesday aimed at constraining Moscow’s war in Ukraine while raising the stakes for foreign banks that still deal with Russia, ahead of G7 leaders’ talks this week...

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United States in Middle East

AFTER Iranian prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh (1951-53), was overthrown in a US-British coup, he stated: ‘I am aware that my fate must serve as an example in the future throughout the Middle East in breaking the chains of slavery and servitude to colonial interests.’..

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How long for Assange to win right to appeal

SO JULIAN Assange won his right to appeal extradition to the United States from England. How long before that next legal step takes place? Months, a year? Who knows? You can bet neither Joe ‘Only Pardons for Them That Don’t Need ‘Em’ Biden nor Donald ‘Maybe a Pardon’ Trump is keeping track...

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NATO’s Pacific war games

AS THE United States increases its military confrontation with China through new military bases on Guam and the Philippines and more land, sea and air exercises with Asia-Pacific countries, the world’s largest naval war exercises will be held in the mid-Pacific from June 26 to August 2 and NATO...

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Biden unveils sweeping Mexico border curbs as election looms

The United States will temporarily close its Mexico border to asylum seekers from Wednesday, as President Joe Biden tries to neutralise his political weakness on migration ahead of November's election battle with Donald Trump.

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Ukraine to ask for greater freedom to target Russia

Ukraine said on Monday it would urge allies to give its troops more freedom to strike military targets inside Russia after the United States partially lifted restrictions on the use of some Western-supplied weapons...

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Trump campaign announces $53 million raised after conviction

Donald Trump’s campaign said on Friday that it had raised nearly $53 million in online small-dollar donations after he was convicted in his New York hush money trial, boasting that the verdict had galvanized his support ‘like never before.’...

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US, China to resume military dialogue

The United States and China will resume military-to-military communications ‘in the coming months’, US defense secretary Lloyd Austin said Friday, as Beijing hailed...

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US, Italy discuss refugee swap

The United States and Italy are drawing up a plan to exchange a small number of refugees, a Rome source said Friday, in a reported bid to deter...

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US, UK air strikes on Yemen kill 16

The United States and Britain carried out air strikes on Yemen in what they said was a bid to degrade Iran-backed rebels’ maritime attack capabilities, with Huthi....

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We have nothing to announce about former Bangladesh police chief: US

The United States Department of State spokesperson, Matthew Miller, on Tuesday said that the US had nothing to announce whether any US agency had found assets of Bangladesh’s former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed in the United States of America or in any other country...

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Giants and minnows ready to battle

Cricket’s ability to grow its global presence beyond its heartlands, while still maintaining the quality at the highest level, will be tested over the coming month in the T20 World Cup in the Caribbean and the United States...