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The leaders of Turkiye and Egypt on Sunday met formally for the first time in more than a decade, on the sidelines of the G20 summit. The meeting in the Indian capital New Delhi between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi marked a...
President Joe Biden will arrive Friday at the G20 Summit in India on a mission to boost climate and infrastructure lending to developing economies, part of a broader effort by the United States and its allies to counter China's rising influence in Africa and Latin America. Biden asked Congress ahead of the summit to...
For 23 years, ever since Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to visit Hanoi, it has been a rite of passage for every American commander in chief to visit the capital of Vietnam, a former enemy. President Joe Biden takes his turn Sept. 10. His state visit will build on...
need for more weaponry and ammunition in Ukraine may facilitate an in-person meeting between Russian and North Korean leaders that puts the United States in a precarious yet powerless position, former U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper has told Newsweek. U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday that...
In the first episode of the Eurasian Connectivity podcast, New Lines Institute Senior Director Dr. Kamran Bokhari and U.S. Institute of Peace Senior Advisor Dr. Daniel Markey discuss how the U.S. can prioritize mutual strategic interests with India while not placating New Delhi’s current...
Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to skip the Group of 20 meeting in New Delhi next week, media outlets reported, citing anonymous sources within several governments. The decision, if confirmed, comes amid deep-seated tension between China and India over their...
Ukraine’s strongest supporters are rallying around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to remove the country’s wartime defense minister after a series of corruption scandals have plagued the ministry. Kyiv’s backers say...
As NatSec Daily returns from its vacation, we’re hearing KIM JONG UN is preparing for an armored-train trip of his own. The North Korean leader is expected to meet with Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN in Vladivostok to make a deal: Moscow gets artillery shells and anti-tank missiles while Pyongyang receives...
During the August 5 crisis at Second Thomas Shoal, the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs tried to contact its Chinese counterparts through a bilateral hotline. Manila’s effort to de-escalate the standoff despite...
Mohammad Yunis has faced a slew of legal cases, and now is accused of siphoning off dividends owed to workers, labor law violations and corruption. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is often called the banker to the poor. He founded the...