| Moral authority or national interest? Senate weighs both in Saudi relations Posted: 13 Dec 2018 01:29 PM PST ![Moral authority or national interest? Senate weighs both in Saudi relations]( "Moral authority or national interest? Senate weighs both in Saudi relations") Can the United States exercise its moral authority in foreign policy without giving its vital national interests short shrift? To a degree not seen in decades, senators of both parties have asserted the importance of factoring in America's long-held values and global role as moral guide as they wrestle with two key questions: How to address the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and how involved the US should be in the Saudi intervention in the Yemen conflict.
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| An unlikely place for women to help end a tragic war Posted: 13 Dec 2018 12:08 PM PST ![An unlikely place for women to help end a tragic war]( "An unlikely place for women to help end a tragic war") The country of Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula has two notable distinctions. It is currently home to the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe, caused by a war raging since 2015. Yemen's warring parties agreed to a cease-fire for the port city of Hudaydah, the main entry for aid to feed a country on the brink of mass famine.
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| In Armenia, a democratic revolution that no one noticed Posted: 13 Dec 2018 11:54 AM PST ![In Armenia, a democratic revolution that no one noticed]( "In Armenia, a democratic revolution that no one noticed") Young people drove Armenia's "Velvet Revolution" – that's the common narrative. This is the first time we are having free and fair elections," says Siransush Abovyan. Recommended: Armenia is having a 'color revolution.' So why is Russia so calm?
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| A new age in Europe, 30 years later Posted: 13 Dec 2018 10:11 AM PST ![A new age in Europe, 30 years later]( "A new age in Europe, 30 years later") It was, for the continent of Europe, the end of an era. The geopolitical picture in Europe is shaping up a bit like "Back to the Future," dominated by two historical rivals: Germany and Russia. Without the steady hand of late US President George H.W. Bush, it's not at all clear that the fall of the wall would have led to the reunification of Germany, only a few decades after a world war in which Nazi aggression had scarred the memory of Europe. And without the stewardship of German Chancellor Angela Merkel since 2005 – who last week passed on the leadership of her Christian Democratic Union party, and has confirmed this term will be her last – the tensions with Vladimir Putin's Russia over the former Soviet-bloc countries of Eastern Europe would have been even harder to navigate.
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