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Some Good News for Investors: The Bull May Still Have Spring in its Step

by Jeff Sommer | Aug 29, 2016 | Business

The bull market in stocks has been supported by two fundamental pillars: high corporate earnings and low interest rates. Both of these mainstays appeared wobbly early this year. Fortunately for investors, there is now some good news for both of them. Interest rates,...

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U.S. President Barack Obama. Reuters

Why Obama Let Iran’s Green Revolution Fail

by Eli Lake | Aug 29, 2016 | Opinion

One of the great hypotheticals of Barack Obama’s presidency involves the Iranian uprising that began on June 12, 2009, after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was announced the winner of contested presidential elections. What if the president had done more to help the...

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America’s Retreat and the Agony of Aleppo

by Jessica Purkiss | Aug 29, 2016 | Opinion

Sarajevo and Aleppo, two cities once part of the Ottoman Empire, two cities whose diverse populations have included Muslims and Christians and Jews, two cities rich in culture that have been besieged and split in two and ravaged by violence, two cities where children...

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A Turkish army tank drives towards the border in Karkamis on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern Gaziantep province, Turkey, August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Turkish Armed Forces in Race with Syrian Regime to Tabqa

by Nazeer Rida, Saeed Abdulrazeq | Aug 29, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut- Turkey’s army pushed deeper into Syria as clashes sparked in al-Amarna, 8 km south of Jarabulus. Conflicting news on seizing the village spread; as Free Syrian Army sources announced that FSA seized the village, sources from the Syrian Observatory for Human...

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Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to the crowd outside Rideau Hall after the government’s swearing-in ceremony in Ottawa November 4, 2015. REUTERS/Blair Gable

Chinese-Canadians Fear China’s Rising Clout is Muzzling Them

by Dan Levin | Aug 29, 2016 | World

Toronto-Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, is due in China on Tuesday for a much anticipated visit, hoping to reset what had been an up-and-down relationship under the previous government. Closer ties, Trudeau says, would release untapped prosperity at home and...