Tokyo’s approach to Washington will be dual

The Japanese ruling party’s second-in-command has visited US presidential contender Donald Trump

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Israel-Palestinian Hamas Gaza war has deep roots

This background brief explains Hamas’s role in Gaza and some drivers of Israel’s response

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Macron has suggested that France’s nuclear weapons should now assume a European dimension amid growing insecurity

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While symbolically engaging in the war against Israel, militias are eyeing greater economic and political control

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The city-state has a new prime minister, only the fourth in its history

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Visits by senior US officials to China in April underscored the persistence of diverging views on key issues

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Chinese-Russian cooperation continues but it is China that sets the pace

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President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has brought forward the presidential elections from December to September

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JNIM is the largest jihadist group operating in the Sahel, and is led by Tuareg powerbroker Iyad ag Ghali

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The Taliban appear divided over whether to uphold the ban on the production, use and trafficking of drugs

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