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Cover Story
Croatia Assumes EU Presidency as Bloc
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Show Me the Money
Congress Giveth What the President
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OAS Rift
Almagro Enjoys U.S. Support for OAS
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Yemen’s Tragedy
Five Years of War, Yemen Still
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United Front
French, German Ambassadors Reflect
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Global Vantage Point
Op-Ed: Palestinians Should
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Medical
U.S. Hospitals Brace for Coronavirus
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Every year since coming into office, President Trump has proposed significant cuts in funding for the State Department and USAID. And every year, Congress has batted down those proposals. This latest budget is likely to be no different. 
This month marks five years since Saudi Arabia and its partners launched a military intervention in Yemen after Houthi rebels took over the capital. Since then, the country has become a staging ground for one of the world’s worst — and most overlooked — conflicts and humanitarian disasters. 
Hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, German Ambassador Emily Haber and French Ambassador Philippe Étienne offered their thoughts on the challenges and opportunities before European nations in 2020 and beyond. 
They say diplomacy is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in a way that they look forward to the trip. That’s exactly how the Palestinians should respond to President Trump’s Middle East peace plan, bucking the mainstream consensus that the “deal of the century” is dead on arrival. 
Hospitals are bracing for the potential spread of coronavirus in the United States, trying to plan for a potential onslaught of sick patients combined with potential supply shortages. 