| Ahead of elections, Guatemala’s strides and setbacks in justice Posted: 10 May 2019 01:10 PM PDT ![Ahead of elections, Guatemala's strides and setbacks in justice]( "Ahead of elections, Guatemala's strides and setbacks in justice") Guatemala has been held up as a model in the region for fighting corruption. The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) is a United Nations-backed investigative body that launched more than a decade ago to root out some of the most "untouchable" cases of corruption, drug trafficking, genocide, money laundering, and other high-profile crimes in the country. CICIG investigations have implicated three former presidents, and when President Jimmy Morales won the 2015 election, he supported its mission.
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| Sanctions, threats, deadlines: How the Iran nuclear deal is faring Posted: 10 May 2019 01:04 PM PDT ![Sanctions, threats, deadlines: How the Iran nuclear deal is faring]( "Sanctions, threats, deadlines: How the Iran nuclear deal is faring") The Trump White House, hardening a "maximum pressure" campaign of increased sanctions and hostile rhetoric, is now portraying the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group as a "clear and unmistakable warning" to Iran. The optics would seem to suggest that, exactly one year after the U.S. withdrew unilaterally from the Iran nuclear deal, a new war in the Middle East hangs in the balance. Where does that leave the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement, struck between Iran and six world powers, which saw Iran dramatically restrict its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions?
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| A door for peace in rising US-Iran tensions Posted: 10 May 2019 12:19 PM PDT ![A door for peace in rising US-Iran tensions]( "A door for peace in rising US-Iran tensions") The latest escalation of tensions was Iran's threat on Wednesday to partially pull out of a 2015 nuclear pact and resume higher enrichment of uranium unless it gets sanctions relief from Europe. The threat came soon after the U.S. beefed up its military forces in the region, claiming new threats against American troops by Iran or its supporters. A year ago he pulled the U.S. out of the nuclear deal, citing its main flaw: The deal does not protect Israel or U.S. allies in the Mideast from threats by Iran other than its now-suspended program to build a nuclear weapon.
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| The EU stuck together on Brexit. Can it remain united on future issues? Posted: 10 May 2019 11:31 AM PDT ![The EU stuck together on Brexit. Can it remain united on future issues?]( "The EU stuck together on Brexit. Can it remain united on future issues?") When European Union leaders issued their blueprint for the future at a summit in Romania this week, they made their priorities plain. In the face of the myriad issues that currently divide the EU, ranging from how to deal with the United States and China to the way in which the bloc should treat migrants, that is an extremely ambitious goal. Many in London had expected to be able to take advantage of European divisions to extract concessions from Brussels.
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