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Analysis: Mundane conflicts over sausage exports have no place in high-flown plans for new Atlantic charter

The president will meet the Queen and Erdoğan as well as democratic leaders but experts including John Bolton wonder what purpose his Russia summit will serve

Peter Westmacott, former British ambassador to the United States. (Photo by Larry Ruggeri) Preventing Iran from building a nuclear bomb for generations while stopping missile tests and Iranian support for terrorist groups is an admirable goal—though not necessarily a realistic one. That’s the view of Sir Peter Westmacott, who began his diplomatic career in Tehran in the late 1970s and ended it 40 years later in Washington, as Britain’s ambassador to the United States. On May 5, the Brookings Institution hosted Westmacott for a panel discussion on the Middle East, and the critical role a...

Comments President Biden's first official overseas trip will be to the United Kingdom and Belgium in June, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed in a statement on Friday. While Ireland is not officially on the travel itinerary for the proudly Irish American president, Psaki did note that "potential additional elements" could be added to the presidential travel plans. Read more In the statement, Psaki confirmed that President Biden will attend the G7 Summit in Cornwall in the UK from June 11 - 13 and then the NATO Summit and the US-EU Summit in Brussels in Belgium on June 14....

Zones of anarchy: Inside the chaos and depravity of Libya’s long civil war While there is relative calm in Tripoli, in Benghazi a tumultuous and bloody reordering is taking place. All mass graves are not the same, and the hundreds of pits behind Issa Haroudah’s farmhouse outside of Tarhuna, about an hour’s drive south of Tripoli, are distinctive because of their orderliness. They stretch like a marker-less cemetery across his land, between his almond groves. The men who carved this atrocity into the fine red Libyan sand did not rush. Some of the graves contain single bodies, others ...