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For greater than half a century, considerations about oil shortages or a broken local weather have spurred governments to put money into different vitality sources. In the Seventies, President Jimmy Carter positioned photo voltaic panels on the roof of the White House as an emblem of his dedication to creating vitality from the solar. In […] More

The Georgians name it the Russian Law. It was handed lately by the Parliament within the Republic of Georgia, purportedly to enhance transparency by having civil society and media teams that get a few of their funds from overseas register as teams “carrying the pursuits of a international energy.” But the tens of 1000’s of […] More

THE ART OF DIPLOMACY: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements That Changed the World, by Stuart E. Eizenstat When I used to be rising up in Catholic Ireland, books on ethical and theological issues carried, close to their title pages, a mark of approval from a neighborhood bishop and the phrase “nihil obstat” — a […] More

This is how Dr. Yuval Bitton remembers the morning of Oct. 7. Being jolted awake simply after dawn by the insistent ringing of his cellphone. The frantic voice of his daughter, who was touring overseas, asking, “Dad, what’s occurred in Israel? Turn on the TV.” News anchors had been nonetheless piecing collectively the experiences: Palestinian […] More

Top finance officers from the world’s superior economies moved nearer to an settlement on Saturday over the right way to use Russia’s frozen central financial institution property to assist Ukraine and pledged to unite in opposition to China’s dumping of low cost exports into their markets, aiming to marshal their financial would possibly to sort […] More

In a speech in Warsaw two years in the past, President Biden declared that “the good battle for freedom” is one “between a rules-based order and one ruled by brute drive.” Now we’ll see whether or not he meant it. By a lopsided vote of 13 to 2, the International Court of Justice has ordered […] More

For weeks, the Gaza Strip’s southernmost metropolis, Rafah, was one of many few locations the place determined Gazans might discover some assist and meals. Bakeries offered bread; gasoline powered turbines; markets have been open, if costly. But since Israeli forces started an incursion within the metropolis this month — successfully closing the 2 essential crossings […] More

If you observe the information, you already know that tensions between the United States and China are excessive and that the business relationship between the 2 greatest buying and selling nations on the planet has been fraying. Yet, amid the ominous headlines a couple of potential “decoupling” of the United States and China, it’s possible […] More

Yes, Barack Obama was there. State dinners are finest referred to as bear hugs for abroad allies, and Thursday’s honoree was Kenya. But the sixth state dinner of President Biden’s time period was designed to clutch home allies — not the least of them Mr. Obama, whose father was Kenyan — even tighter because the […] More

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen warned Israel on Thursday in opposition to slicing off ties between Palestinian and Israeli banks, arguing that such a transfer would additional destabilize the economic system of the West Bank when Palestinians had been already going through dire financial situations. Ms. Yellen’s feedback got here within the wake of Israel’s […] More

Kenyan law enforcement officials are quickly heading to Haiti with a frightening mission: assist restore order to a rustic the place killings and kidnappings are so rampant that lots of of 1000’s of individuals have fled their properties and the place, for years, it has been too harmful to carry elections. It is hardly the […] More

In her first public look since she dropped her Republican presidential bid in March, Nikki Haley, the previous United Nations ambassador, on Wednesday stated she would vote for former President Donald J. Trump, stopping in need of an official endorsement. Speaking on the Hudson Institute in Washington, a conservative suppose tank, Ms. Haley delivered a […] More