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GOP hawks alarmed as Trump mulls deal to end his Iran war
They warn against accepting any agreement that will leave Iran in a stronger position than before Trump launched his war
Azov’s drones return to Mariupol as Ukraine expands its kill zone
Four years after the Ukrainian Azov Brigade’s ‘last stand’ there, fighters have the occupied city back in their sites
ULVAC to make rare earth melting furnaces in Japan
Top producer of equipment used to make rare earth magnets looking to markets outside China
How Xi Jinping is rewriting the rules of global power
Henry Kissinger noteded that great powers rarely announce their dominance — they simply begin making decisions that others find themselves bound by
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- Russia and NATO drift closer to confrontation over Ukraine
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