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Meet The Women Who Lead CBS News’ War Coverage
CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward has woken up each morning since Friday in Yemen. She is one of the first foreign reporters to gain access to the country since the Saudi Arabian-led bombing campaign began in March. She spends her days traveling from the city center to hospitals to bomb sites, talking with everyone from local Yemenis to top...
Putin Says Russia Is Beefing Up Its Nuclear Arsenal
By Maria Tsvetkova KUBINKA, Russia, June 16 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday Russia would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year and a defense official accused NATO of provoking a new arms race. Putin made his announcement a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S....
Narendra Modi’s Surprisingly Successful Selfie Diplomacy
New Delhi — Last month, in front of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang posed for Modi’s smartphone and snapped a photo. “It’s selfie time! Thanks Premier Li,” Modi tweeted to his 13 million Twitter followers. The photo of the two men–together...
Russia Says It Will Retaliate If U.S. Stations Weapons On Its Borders
By Gabriela Baczynska and Wiktor Szary MOSCOW/WARSAW, June 15 (Reuters) – A plan by Washington to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia’s border would be the most aggressive U.S. act since the Cold War, and Moscow would retaliate by beefing up its own forces, a Russian defense official said on Monday. The United...
Former Ambassador Michael McFaul: A Lot Of Prominent Russians Don’t Like The Mess They’re In
Every week The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving world headlines. This time, we speak with Michael McFaul, professor of Political Science at Stanford University and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia. President Barack Obama announced on Monday that leaders of the G7 countries have agreed to maintain sanctions against Russia...
The Democrats’ Old Leaders On Foreign Policy Are Gone Or Going. Meet The New Guard.
Sen. Chris Coons, one of three younger Democratic senators who have seized leadership roles on foreign policy, chats with Gen. Richard P. Mills in Afghanistan in February 2011. (Photo: Chris Coons/Flickr)The Democratic foreign policy establishment is suffering from a major brain drain. Forget for a moment that Republicans took control of the...
Interview with Harvard University Professor and Renowned International Relations Scholar, Joseph Nye
Joseph Nye is a University Distinguished Professor at Harvard University. He was also the former Dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and an Assistant Secretary of Defense under the Clinton administration. In October 2014, Nye was appointed to Foreign Affairs Policy Board. His latest book, published earlier this year is...
China’s Expansion in the South China Sea: A Return to Great Power Politics
While the ongoing campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and the looming threat of Russian intervention in Ukraine have understandably captured the attention of most U.S. foreign policy observers, recent events underscore that the most important long-term challenge confronting the United States remains the rise of China....
Why the French Army Collapsed at Waterloo
After the two sides had been nearly equal for most of the day at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon ordered his elite Imperial Guard to charge, and, shortly afterward, the French front abruptly collapsed, with a completeness that was unprecedented on any side in the Napoleonic Wars and perhaps in the preceding centuries. According to several...
The Babushkas of Chernobyl
“Radiation doesn’t scare me, starvation does.” Hanna Zavorotyna, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Photo credit: Rena Effendi I have to recognize, I knew almost nothing about the tragedy that happened almost 30 years ago in Chernobyl, Ukraine. The nuclear power plant accident was catastrophic, and its effects on the population were...
