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WASHINGTON, US:As the Biden administration continues to pursue a normalization deal with Israel and Saudi Arabia, supporters of a U.S. security guarantee for the Saudis have started making their case in public.

MICHIGAN, U.S.-Tuesday saw France’s third nationwide strike and protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension cuts. According to trade union statistics, over 400,000 people marched in Paris and a total of 2 million protested nationwide, while millions more went on strike and stayed at home. 

WASHINGTON, U.S.--The U.S. employs broad economic sanctions with increasing frequency despite their poor record of success and the growing body of evidence that they cause significant harm to the populations of the countries where they are imposed.

WASHINGTON, U.S.--Sanctions usually fail to achieve any stated policy goals, and they frequently backfire and encourage more of the behavior that they are meant to stop.

WASHINGTON, U.S.--The United States remains wedded to a failed Trump-era policy towards Venezuela, but it is no closer to achieving its regime change goals today than when it started more than three years ago.

NEW YORK, U.S.--To this day, the Turks are proud that their Ottoman ancestors had made the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas "a Turkish lake." To this day, they lament that the Aegean is now widely a Greek lake and the Mediterranean is anything but a Turkish lake.

WASHINGTON, U.S.--Over the weekend, Western nations sharply escalated their economic pressure on Moscow as the United States, the European Union, and other allied countries, notably Japan and Canada, sanctioned Russia’s central bank. 

BERLIN, Germany--Turkey's lira dropped further on Monday before recovering slightly following a speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on state television that cited Islam as a reason for not raising interest rates despite a rapidly depreciating currency and rampant inflation.