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Call for coalition to force Congo president’s exit

Bloomberg The Democratic Republic of Congo’s main opposition leader said parties should unite to force President Joseph Kabila to leave as plans to set a new date for elections are delayed. “Joseph Kabila is the sole obstacle on the way to the organization of elections in our country,” Felix Tshisekedi, leader of the Rassemblement coalition, told reporters in the capital, ...

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After IS is defeated, can US troops help stabilize Syria?

As the US-led coalition accelerates its campaign to destroy the IS’s remaining strongholds in Syria, the Trump administration faces a big decision about the future: Does it want to keep some US troops inside the country to help stabilize Syria after the extremists are defeated, or does it want to pack up and come home? The dilemma is eerily like ...

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Fall of Singapore would be beginning of end for Uber

Of all the setbacks during World War II, the one that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill could never really get over was the fall of Singapore. Seventy-five years later, Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s new CEO, shouldn’t even want to contemplate the costs of surrendering the city’s ride-hailing market—for that might mean the beginning of the end of Uber Technologies Inc.’s global ...

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