December 3, 2023
Conventional wisdom suggests Americans know little about foreign policy and care about it even less. Opinion polls regularly show that international issues take a back seat to topics more prosaic (economics, education) or provocative (culture wars, gun control). Next year’s presidential election, however, might be a bit different. Continued international crises could focus attention on
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Key Points New Zealand’s new government is a coalition between centre-right National, libertarians ACT and populists NZ First The inclusion of a clause to scrap gender and sexuality education in the coalition deals ha provoked outrage Prime Minister Chris Luxon said a role for parents and schools in sex ed would continue New Zealand is
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California Governor Gavin Newsom denies he is running a shadow campaign for president. Mr Newsom took on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in an unusual televised debate in the middle of the primary races for the presidential nominations. Mr DeSantis is the best polling candidate for the Republican nomination, behind Donald Trump who is still leading
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Cricket legend Shane Warne is set to leave a life-saving legacy through a campaign delivering free heart tests for thousands of Australians. The campaign will be led by his children Brooke, Jackson and Summer who are ambassadors of the new Shane Warne Legacy foundation. The foundation will be spreading awareness and raising funds for a
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Senator Lidia Thorpe has promised to stand up and make a statement “every day” against a system she says is promoting “genocide” after being welcomed to thunderous applause at a pro-Palestine rally. Hundreds of people are rallying in Melbourne and Sydney at demonstrations calling for an end to the conflict in the Gaza Strip, following
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The head of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has pledged to broaden and deepen its campaign against corruption, a week after police revealed the scale of an ongoing graft investigation worth an estimated $12.5 billion. “We need to conduct the anti-corruption fight faster in a more efficient manner,” CPV General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong
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Raising campaign money from Hollywood after a long hiatus during industry strikes, Vice President Kamala Harris sounded confident as she told supporters Monday that President Biden will win the 2024 election. “It will not be easy,” she said. “There are powerful forces in our country right now that are trying to divide our nation. And
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Russia’s war in Ukraine and destabilising “hybrid warfare” actions on the eastern border put foreign and security policy at the top of the agenda for candidates and voters alike. ADVERTISEMENT November, in Finnish, translates as ‘dead month’, and is nobody’s favourite time of year. But the presidential election race is lighting up the winter murk
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Ursula von der Leyen has become the personal target of a new campaign launched by Viktor Orbán as part of a national consultation that levels serious accusations against the European Union’s political agenda. ADVERTISEMENT The billboards, plastered on streets across Hungary, feature the president of the European Commission standing next to Alexander Soros, the 38-year-old
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Joe Biden is under mounting pressure to rein in Israel’s high-intensity military campaign within a matter of weeks, as US allies, administration officials and Democratic party members recoil at the mounting death toll in Gaza. The US president has stopped short of calling for the immediate ceasefire demanded by Arab countries and some US politicians.
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