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The women running Ethiopia’s economy

The most powerful women in Ethiopia’s economy right now are not necessarily the entrepreneurs on magazine covers. They are the officials setting tax targets and negotiating the country’s way out of sovereign default, alongside executives running its biggest phone company,

US nuclear pact puts Saudi Arabia on path to the bomb

A contentious civilian nuclear agreement between the US and Saudi Arabia has ignited a sharp debate over Middle Eastern security, laying bare the escalating friction between American nonproliferation objectives and the kingdom’s strategic ambitions. This month, The Washington

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Trump floated US weapons sales to Xi, ambassador says

U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue said Sunday that President Trump proposed selling weapons to China during recent meetings with the country’s president Xi Jinping. “President Trump continues to say, ‘Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world,’” Perdue told host