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Henry Kissinger: Divisive diplomat who towered over world affairs
... A committed practitioner of realism in Foreign Relations, he was both awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and roundly condemned as a war criminal...
How Hamas built a force to attack Israel on 7 October
... Hugh Lovatt, a Middle East analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said Israel would have been aware of the joint training drills but " reached the wrong conclusion" assessing they amounted to the " standard" activity of paramilitary groups in the Palestinian territories, rather than being " indicative of a looming large-scale attack"...
Yahya Sinwar: Who is the Hamas leader?
... Hugh Lovatt, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), believes Deif was the brains behind the planning of the 7 October attack because it was a military operation, but Sinwar " would likely have been part of the group that planned and influenced it"...
Belt and Road Initiative: Is China's trillion-dollar gamble to transform the world working?
... " Poor risk management and a lack of attention to detail and cohesion" from Chinese lenders and companies are partly to blame, according to the Council on Foreign Relations...
China's Belt and Road Initiative: Kenya and a railway to nowhere
... American think-tank the Council on Foreign Relations argues that some BRI investments have involved opaque bidding processes and required use of Chinese firms leading to inflated costs which have in some cases resulted in the cancelation of projects and a political backlash...
Bob Menendez steps down as US Senate foreign relations chairman after indictment
...By Sam CabralBBC News, WashingtonA veteran US senator has temporarily stepped down as head of the chamber s powerful Foreign Relations committee as he battles bribery charges...
US Senator Bob Menendez charged in bribery inquiry
... Mr Menendez, 69, is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee and was elected to a third term in the Senate in 2018...
Hunter Biden: The struggles and scandals of the US president's son
... In 2006, with then-Senator Biden set to re-assume chairmanship of the Senate s Foreign Relations Committee, his son and another relative made an ill-fated purchase of a hedge fund group, Paradigm Global Advisors...