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Three big items left on Obama’s agenda

  President Obama should focus on three foreign policy challenges, post-election, to finish fights that began on his watch. These include setting rules for cyber behavior with Russia and other nations, pressing on toward Raqqa and the destruction of the Islamic State, and a “Hail Mary” effort to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal during the lame-duck session of ...

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How not to fight climate change, shipping edition

  The shipping industry accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than airplanes, buses or trains. Yet it was not included in last year’s Paris accord — and an attempt last month to redress this failure manages to be both unambitious and impractical. The world’s 90,000 shipping vessels burn about five million barrels of petroleum products each day, and their emissions ...

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Trump has colossal challenges ahead

  He came; he confronted; and he conquered. The unexpected result has given the ‘unpredictable’ the presidential crown. Donald Trump has been voted to become the 45th president of the United States of America. If Brexit was a big shock for the world, Donald Trump’s victory is the bigger one. Undoubtedly, the realty tycoon has stunned America and the world. ...

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