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rg says China "accounted for 27% of global emissions. The U.S., the second biggest emitter, contributed 11% while India for the first time surpassed the European Union with about 6.6% of the global total." The Washington Post (5/6, Mufson, Dennis, 10.52M) says, "With the impacts from climate change intensifying an

1.26M) adds "there are still big gaps between the U.S. and Iranian positions on what a mutual return to the 2015 nuclear deal looks like, a senior State Department official told reporters on Thursday ahead of the next round of talks in Vienna." The CNN (5/6, Bertrand, 89.21M) website reports that as the negoti

ing to the White House statement, Biden "emphasized his commitment to bolstering transatlantic relations, through NATO and the U.S. partnership with the European Union." Biden and Macron "also agreed on the need for close coordination, including through multilateral organizations, in tackling common challenges such

force to the Biden administration that signals Beijing's plans to maintain pressure on Taiwan even as it calls for a reset with the United States." State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement that the US "notes with concern the pattern of ongoing P.R.C. attempts to intimidate its neighbors, includi

Joe Biden has called him a clone of President Trump," and Reuters (11/8, Piper) reports "some say Johnson, a leading force in the campaign to leave the European Union, might struggle to forge a close bond with Biden, who has in the past cast doubt over Brexit and has never met the prime minister." Chinese Analyst

tist Group From List Of Terrorist Organizations. The Wall Street Journal (11/6, Hua, Subscription Publication, 7.57M) reports China criticized the State Department for removing a Uighur separatist group that is now largely defunct from the department's list of terrorist organizations. China has blamed the group

g, and countries are diversifying their natural gas supplies to reduce dependence on the company notorious for its stranglehold on foreign markets. The European Union, in fact, is set to charge Gazprom with "abusing its dominant position in central and eastern Europe" following an aggressive antitrust investigati

ould be wise to nurture this rare bipartisan unity as much as the international coalition it has assembled against Iran. It was Condoleezza Rice's State Department, after all, that originated the notion of a two-track policy of steadily increasing economic pressure on Iran while seeking a diplomatic settlement

an foreign minister Javad Zarif had offered a PowerPoint presentation, details publicly unknown but described as "very useful" by the spokesman for the European Union's top foreign-policy official at the talks. According to several reports, the basic outline of the Iranian proposal has Tehran offering to limit enri

0 'Hanlon is a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at The Brookings Institution. Jeremy Shapiro is a visiting fellow at Brookings and a former State Department official. Ar6cle 6 The Huffington Post Palestinians in a Jewish State Nadim Nashif October 15 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's much

ident Obama cancelled a planned Moscow summit. Augmenting its Eurasian thrust, Russia has forged a multitude of pragmatic ties with the West. It is the European Union's third-largest trading partner and a major energy supplier. Three-quarters of all foreign investment in Russia comes from the EU. Russia and America

ugh the pursuit of a political settlement in Syria as well as an Israeli-Palestinian peace. Here lies another problem. Virtually no one outside the State Department — including the nominal parties to the talks — takes seriously the possibility that Kerry's plan for a Geneva conference to settle the Syrian war

the meeting. The recording was the second to come to light in just months that appeared to reveal how Mr. Putin has actively sought to destabilize the European Union by boosting nationalist, populist parties like the League. ... For now, in Italy, where Mr. Salvini appears immune to political injury, the audio d

oney, city officials say, Washingtonians will be put in the unprecedented position of funding federal security needs with local tax dollars." -- A State Department intelligence official resigned after the White House blocked him from submitting written congressional testimony about climate change. Juliet Eilp

Joe Biden has called him a clone of President Trump," and Reuters (11/8, Piper) reports "some say Johnson, a leading force in the campaign to leave the European Union, might struggle to forge a close bond with Biden, who has in the past cast doubt over Brexit and has never met the prime minister." Chinese Analyst

tist Group From List Of Terrorist Organizations. The Wall Street Journal (11/6, Hua, Subscription Publication, 7.57M) reports China criticized the State Department for removing a Uighur separatist group that is now largely defunct from the department's list of terrorist organizations. China has blamed the group

em. A consensus is emerging among political leaders to choose the same system for which the ten post-communist countries that have been admitted to the European Union opted, parliamentarianism. Finally, Rachid al-Ghannouchi, who leads the largest Muslim- inspired political party, Al Nanda, went out of his way to t

ban has certainly been unacceptable, on other questions the EFTA00585495 16 Pakistanis do have a point. Some U.S. officials -- especially in the State Department -- themselves recognize that what happened to Davis is strong evidence that it is not, in fact, a good idea to have hundreds of Special Forces type

an Assange, began posting thousands of classified State Department cables online. Candid descriptions of foreign lea

number of tourists. Before the crisis erupted, Syria was negotiating to join the World Trade Organisation and conclude an association agreement with the European Union. But Bashar’s years in power seem to have hardened him. He developed a taste for control -- control over the media, over the university, over the ec

lity must eventually give way to the more mundane realities of running the department. She is midway through a five-year plan to increase the size of the State Department’s foreign- service staff by 25 percent and double USAID. And she’s taken a leaf from the Pentagon playbook and launched a “Q.D.D.R.”— Quadrennial Diplo