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What’s a Special Purpose Vehicle, and Can Europe Save Iran With It?
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It’s been nearly five months since American President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The ...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Trump Plan to Prop Up Coal, Nuclear Won’t Protect the Electric Grid
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President Donald Trump and Republican political leaders spent close to eight years accusing the Obama administration of picking winners and losers in the energy sector, but Tr...
By Neil Bhatiya
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The U.S. Has Lost the Nuclear Race
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The US has the largest stockpile of nuclear arms in the world. But on nuclear energy, it's all but out of the race. Of more than 50 new nuclear reactors being built around the...
By Neil Bhatiya
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North Korea continues to raise foreign currency despite sanctions
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North Korea’s trade deficit with China has ballooned, raising questions on how the reclusive state has been able to continue to generate foreign currency reserves despite the ...
By Neil Bhatiya
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"Better to Cancel Than String This Along": How the Trump-Kim Bromance Died
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In a remarkable scene Thursday morning, a haggard-looking Bob Corker opened Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s scheduled hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee wi...
By Neil Bhatiya
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The Cities at Risk of Climate-Driven Conflict
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We know that climate change imperils coastal communities around the world and endangers food and water sources, and that political and religious extremism feed off instability...
By Neil Bhatiya
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4 things to know about the Trump budget’s environmental cuts
Like last year’s budget, the Trump administration’s 2019 budget proposes large cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency. And it eliminates explicit climate change programs ...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Countering North Korea's Financing of its Weapons Programs
Military solutions to containing and potentially reversing North Korea’s weapons programs have dominated the discussion, but there are other means available to the United Stat...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Donald Trump says US could 'go back' into Paris climate agreement
President Donald Trump has said that the US could "go back" into the Paris climate deal - having withdrawn America from the global accord last year. "We could conceivably go b...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Senators Still Unsure if the U.S. Can Trust China When It Comes to North Korea
WASHINGTON – Top officials from the Treasury Department and State Department struggled Thursday to convince senators on the banking committee that the Chinese government was f...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Trump's speech to UN called 'terrifying' and 'delusional' by foreign policy experts
Donald Trump gave his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, pushing for “sovereignty” in what has been called both “terrifying” and “delusional” by experts. Th...
By Neil Bhatiya & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Experts hope upcoming defence bill could alert Trump to climate change's threat to national security
As Congress returns from recess, a major piece of defence legislation is up for consideration that could prove to be invaluable for those looking to the US to fight climate ch...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Chief of staff handled disasters touched by warming
New White House Chief of Staff John Kelly defended funding to confront natural disasters that he believed eroded stability and fueled migration in Latin America and the Caribb...
By Neil Bhatiya
