Officials from a German government party and the opposition demand that Germany should be freed from some 20 or so remaining U.S. nuclear warheads stored in military bases in the country.
The discussion was launched after an internal U.S. Air Force report found security and safety standards at most nuclear weapons storage sites in Europe fall [...]

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“This generation will be running China in a few years. They are the next international politicians and business leaders, and their choices will affect us all,” says FRONTLINE producer Sue Williams about the new generation shaping China’s future. In Young & Restless in China, FRONTLINE presents intimate portraits of nine young Chinese over the course [...]

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The world is in a state of flux. China is growing rapidly, but is very unstable. Russia has been doing much better economically in the last few years, but there are storm clouds on the horizon. Russia oil output looks like it may start to decline shortly. The Russian military machine is decaying faster than [...]

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WHEN Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, was asked to ponder the future of the world before an audience of powerful businessmen and politicians, at a meeting in Switzerland earlier this year, he could have chosen any topic he liked. What he focused on was both a hoary old favourite, and a newly popular preoccupation, of [...]

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If there was a the unipolar moment it has passed. The US will most likely remain the pre-eminent global power for some time yet, but it is already an insufficient one. The multilateral system designed in the middle of the last century no longer fits geopolitical realities. New powers might be accommodated in a reformed [...]

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By Niall Ferguson
Money’s disappearing, world leaders are blathering at the U.N., Thailand had a coup and Hungary’s prime minister was caught on tape.
It’s a mad world.
I was wondering why the antics of world leaders at the United Nations seemed so familiar last week. Then I realized it was just like a university [...]

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