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The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter conducts strike operations from the Mediterranean Sea. (Ford Williams/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)

Trump Gets a Taste of Success

by David Ignatius | Apr 16, 2017 | Opinion

For a reminder of how new administrations can quickly get into trouble in foreign policy, consider that Monday, April 17, marks the anniversary of the catastrophic Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. Bad things can happen to good presidents, and...

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From left: the form of Hull City’s Tom Huddlestone, Sunderland’s Jermain Defoe, Swansea City’s Gylfi Sigurdsson and Álvaro Negredo of Middlesbrough will be key to their clubs’ survival chances. Composite: Getty Images

Premier League Relegation Fight: Where Clubs’ Hopes Lie, the Impact if They Fall

by Louise Taylor and Stuart James | Apr 16, 2017 | Sports

Hull City Played 32 Points 30 Goal difference -31 Case for staying up Revitalised under Marco Silva, Hull’s band of supposed misfits and loanees possess that most coveted football commodity: momentum. Since the Portuguese succeeded Mike Phelan in early January they...

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Emmanuel Macron, presidential candidate, at a campaign event in March. Credit Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

France in the End of Days

by Roger Cohen | Apr 16, 2017 | Opinion

Paris — France seems ready to vent the slow-ripening anger in an election that could see the extreme right return to power for the first time since the 1940s and Europe revert to a turbulence not seen since that epoch. If Marine Le Pen of the National Front wins, she...

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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping as he arrives before dinner at Mar-a-Lago resort, in Palm Beach, Fla. AP

Washington to Scrutinize China’s Trade, Currency Practices Very Closely

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 16, 2017 | Business

Washington – US President Donald Trump’s administration declined to name any major trading partner as a currency manipulator in a highly anticipated report on Friday, backing away from a key Trump campaign promise to slap such a label on China. The semi-annual...

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Without a Motorcycle in Kandahar, ‘You Are Like a Prisoner’

by Mujib Mashal | Apr 16, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Kandahar – Here in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the brief minute stopped at the light is often intimate. A man reaches back to make sure the groceries he tied to the rear rack don’t fall. A child wrapped around his father’s waist adjusts his falling sandal. A woman...