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DHS Misrepresented Venezuelan Immigrants as 'Tren de Aragua' Members After Shooting, Experts Say: 'A Smear Campaign'

The Department of Homeland Security misrepresented two Venezuelan immigrants as members of the Tren de Aragua gang after a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot them in Oregon in January, according to immigra...

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Venezuelan Oil Exports Soar With U.S. Oversight Following Capture Of Nicolas Maduro

Venezuelan oil exports soared in January as the Trump administration begins to oversee the country's industry following the capture of authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro, according to a new report...

15 hours ago

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Colombia's Ambassador to U.S. Spotted Carrying The Art of the Deal to Petro–Trump Meeting

In a later image from inside the Oval Office, the official appeared holding a sheet featuring the Colombian flag and the phrase "Colombia, America's #1 ally against narcoterrorists"

13 hours ago

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Goodbye New START: How China’s Rise Ended Nuclear Arms Control

As China continues to expand its nuclear capabilities, and Russia and the U.S. walk away from arms control, the future is terrifying: a new nuclear arms race, with more players, and less predictabilit...

4 days ago

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The Coupang Probe Is a South Korea-US Diplomatic Row in the Making

Despite the South Korean government’s efforts to downplay speculation linking the tariff hike to the Coupang probe, concerns continue to grow as Washington signals its displeasure through multiple cha...

4 days ago

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Japan’s Quiet Partnership With Rwanda and the Limits of Non-Conditional Aid

As Western donors increasingly tie development aid to political conditions, Japan’s quiet partnership with Rwanda raises a question: Can Tokyo translate quiet development cooperation into real diploma...

4 days ago

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The Economics of Biodiversity Loss: Implications for Asia and the Pacific

Nature provides essential inputs to the economy through ecosystem services. In Asia and the Pacific, accelerating biodiversity loss is eroding these services, increasing vulnerability to shocks, and c...

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Spheres of Influence Are Officially Back – and China Stands to Gain

We are seeing the return of overt geopolitics: a style of major power politics that does not bother to hide behind international law or multilateral norms. That’s good news for China – and bad news fo...

4 hours ago

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The Iran off-ramp is still open. Trump should take it

As the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group steams through the Arabian Sea and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warns that any American attack would trigger a regional war, the current crisis i...

1 day ago

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India should respect and respond to Bangladesh’s reset

India’s support was decisive in Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971. Bangladeshi freedom fighters lacked the military capability to overwhelm the Pakistani army and bring down the Dhaka government. He...

21 hours ago

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Trump’s dollar downer buoying Xi’s global yuan ambitions

China is accelerating its long-running effort to turn the yuan into a genuine global currency, and recent signals from Washington are strengthening Beijing’s resolve. For years, Chinese policymakers h...

19 hours ago

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China’s YJ-18 missile reimagined to strike US naval logistics

China’s unveiling of the YJ-18C cruise missile underscores a shift in its military thinking toward cheap, stealthy weapons designed to erode US naval endurance by attacking logistics rather than...

18 hours ago

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Australia needs to get real about Trump’s America

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos speech should unsettle Australian strategic thinkers, who have been raised in the belief the US alliance is the unshakeable foundation of Australia’s region...

18 hours ago

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Iran, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and sovereignty’s price

In a landmark interview during the Cold War, Pakistan’s then-president and military chief General Muhammed Zia-ul-Haq defended his country’s refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ...

12 hours ago

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Steven Pinker: The mechanics of trust in money and relationships

What happens when everyone knows the same thing, and knows that everyone else knows it? Steven Pinker adventures into the subtle but powerful concept of common knowledge, revealing how it shapes money...

4 days ago

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Ask Ethan: How much damage could a cosmic ray do to a human?

Here in our isolated corner of the Universe, we don’t normally think about all the objects, particles, and photons that miss us, even though we know they’re ubiquitous out there. Instead, ...

4 days ago

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Why fulfilled people make time for nothing at all

When I visited flourishing groups, I noticed that being with them felt different. They possessed a vibrancy, a switched-on responsiveness that showed up in their bodies. Their posture, in general, was...

23 hours ago

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The most important quantum advance of the 21st century

Since the dawn of the quantum era, perhaps no question has loomed larger in the minds of theoretical physicists than just what, exactly, the nature of reality is. Are quantum objects real, with well-d...

21 hours ago

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The Agility Quotient: Why we need to move on from IQ and EQ

When France began mandatory education for all children in the late 1800s, it required a way to assess the “mental age” of students to properly place them in the right classrooms. Two French psychologi...

14 hours ago

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Sandcastles

A documentary connecting two Singapores: the Asian country expanded on imported sand and a town in Michigan buried by dunes- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

1 week ago

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