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International News Coverage Cuba US-Cuba deal: a marriage 18 months in the making, blessed by Pope Francis Dan Roberts | The Guardian If ever there was a lingering illusion that Barack Obama might have “accidentally” bumped into the president of Cuba at the funeral of...

Hamill: U.S. Needs to Rethink its Space Business

In a recent article in National Defense Magazine about the U.S. Air Force’s challenges of efficiently developing and deploying space technology, ASP Directory of Strategy and Communications Paul W. Hamill urged the military to rethink its decades old business model....

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International News Coverage Sydney Hostage Crisis Police storm Sydney café to end hostage siege, reports say two dead Lincoln Feast & Nicole Packham Heavily armed Australian police stormed a Sydney café on Tuesday to free several hostages being held there at...

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International News Coverage Climate Change John Kerry: climate change is now a security issue Suzannne Goldenberg | The Guardian John Kerry, the US secretary of state, will call on world leaders to reach for an ambitious deal to fight climate change in a visit to UN...

Basil El-Baz: Defeating ISIL through Job Creation

In a recently penned Op-Ed, Basil El-Baz, a leading Egyptian industrialist, put forth a strong call for an economic revolution across the Middle East to tackle the grievances that groups like Islamic State (IS) take advantage of. Writing in GlobalPost, El-Baz...