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Thailand’s forever war greets Anutin with a vengeance

BANGKOK – As the United States struggles to find an early exit from the prospect of yet another forever war in the Middle East, recent weeks have seen its treaty ally, Thailand, again wrestling with its own forever war, an apparently intractable conflict along its southern

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Legal questions US lawyers can’t answer about the Iran war

There is a recurring temptation in American foreign policy to treat legal argument as a substitute for strategic thought. The controversy over Operation Epic Fury has yielded a remarkable specimen of this tendency. That the United States acted outside the bounds of

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King Charles on Capitol Hill as special relationship frays

When King Charles III addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday (April 28), he will become only the second British monarch to do so. His mother delivered the first such address in May 1991, in a Washington flush with Cold War victory and Gulf War triumph, with

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China defends firms as US sanctions Hengli over Iran oil

China has vowed to safeguard domestic enterprises after the United States imposed sanctions on a Dalian-based oil refiner and several Hong Kong-registered shipping firms over alleged involvement in the Iranian oil trade and shipments. The US Treasury Department’s Office of

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Trump uses assassination try to justify expanding spying powers

An exchange of gunfire between an armed suspect and law enforcement outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday came days ahead of a deadline for extending far-reaching government surveillance powers, and President Donald Trump wasted no time in claiming that the

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