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Many contend we are living in an age of history being shaped by leaders. Financial Times commentator Gideon Rachman even recently penned a bestseller titled The Age of the Strongman, which outlines the DNA of the modern autocrat and argues that it is these miscreants who are defining our epoch.

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In a prerecorded address to the Russian people, Vladimir Putin issued a threat that, while aimed at a domestic audience, jangled nerves in the West

Chinese big four bank CDS each surged about 10 bps, the largest single-session gains since the July 15th peak risk off.

Could Putin face a similar fate as toppled Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, or worse?

APN's mission is to educate and persuade the American public and its leadership to support and adopt policies that will lead to comprehensive, durable, Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab peace, based on a two-state solution, guaranteeing both peoples security, and consistent with U.S. national interests.

This Earth Day, a call for the environmental movement to take on nuclear disarmament again.

President Joe Biden said Thursday that if Russian President Vladimir Putin uses chemical weapons in Ukraine, the United States and NATO will respond, but he would not say what that response would be.

Media unhappy that conflict hasn't escalated.

During a Thursday press conference following an emergency NATO summit in Brussels to address the war in Ukraine, President Biden was pressed by CBS News correspondent Christina Ruffini on the fact that economic sanctions failed to deter Russian dictator Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine. Despite clear evidence to the contrary, Biden angrily denied that sanctions were ever meant to be a form of deterrence and accused Ruffini of “playing a game” with him.