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Giancarlo Elia Valori The elections held in Tunisia saw 7,065,883 registered voters, with 49% of women and over a third of voters under 35 years of age. The voters outside the national territory were 385,546. There were 217 seats to be assigned and 4,871 polling stations with 12,000 …

After a divisive six-week campaign, the speeches are over and the debates are done — Canadians have decided the 2019 federal election. Here’s the latest from across the country: 1:10 a.m. — In an unusual move, Justin Trudeau began his acceptance speech as Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer started …

The Trump administration should remain firm with the pressure campaign, continue trying to get the Europeans on board a harsher response to Iran’s aggressions, carve out a clear negotiations strategy, and be wary of blinking first. For some time now there have been serious questions about the kind …

By Rick Sterling If one believes in the restoration of international law and the tenets of the UN Charter, then the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from northern Syria is a good thing. Here are some facts and history that explain why. The foreign policy elite is in …

Adam Bienkov Boris Johnson writes to the EU requesting that is delayed, after repeatedly insisting that he would not. The prime minister had said he would rather be “dead in a ditch” than send the letter. Johnson declined to sign the letter and sent a separate letter arguing …

Kat Tenbarge Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a bipartisan House delegation to Jordan on Saturday to meet with a group of officials that included King Abdullah II and other top officials. In a statement, Pelosi said the meeting involved a “constructive dialogue on regional stability, counterterrorism, security cooperation, Middle …

Rob Urie The Statement Problem Since the re-beginning of the environmental movement in the 1960s, the scale and scope of environmental ills have been systematically understated, suggesting both that the causal mechanisms weren’t entirely understood and that environmental problems have been growing. That way of proceeding, of identifying …

Steven Kopits Tehran is not willing to simply roll over and give up. President Donald Trump has sixty days to prevent tensions with Iran from spinning out of control. Dissatisfied with the Iran nuclear deal signed under the Obama administration, Trump terminated U.S. participation in the Joint Comprehensive …

Paul Pillar President Donald Trump is wisely resisting starting a new war in the Middle East, but the dead-end nature of his failed “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran has put him on the spot to do something. Although President Donald Trump is wisely resisting starting a new war …