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British Steel, the U.K.'s last bastion of primary steelmaking, announced plans to shutter its two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, effectively ending 150 years of virgin steel production in Britain ...

President Trump's Ukraine policy has arrived at what Joe Biden frequently referred to as "an inflection point." Weeks after Volodomier Zelensky unconditionally accepted the U.S. pro ...

The ceasefire in Gaza is now over. Where to go from here to bring peace is again an open question. One idea that needs to die for good, however, is President Donald Trump's ...

Earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth put words to a shift already underway. In an era of renewed great power competition, the United States can no longer afford to treat Latin America ...

Picture a plump, aging man wearing water wings in a Beijing pool, cursing under his breath. Not the fondest memory for Nikita Khrushchev -- best known for staring down Kennedy during th ...

The Trump administration's reciprocal tariffs have engendered stock markets to panic and U.S. trading partners and Trump's domestic political opponents to complain about harmful "tra ...

Last month, several news outlets and international organizations reported that Armenia and Azerbaijan had taken action to finally normalize their relationship. The two countries finalized the language ...

Though drowned out by headlines about tariffs, Secretary of State Marco Rubio's recent NATO visit is worth dwelling on as it represents a shift in Washington's view of the allian ...

President Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy is taking shape. Its essence is geographical, and the tools to facilitate it are economic, diplomatic, and military power. It ...

The Yemeni civil war originated in 2014, when the Houthi movement (representing the Zaydi Shiite Islamic minority) seized control of the capital, Sana'a. in the following years, the conflict pro ...