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Howard Lafranchi

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Sep 10, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Howard LaFranchi

    Why the US appears to have given up on nuclear deal with Iran (opens the original)

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    Sept. 10, 2026, 2:33 p.m. ET | Washington President Donald Trump has searched over recent months for ways to end a war with Iran that has turned increasingly unpopular with the American public. But now, as the conflict initiated by the United States and Israel enters its seventh month and the U.S. midterm elections approach, the president appears to have made two decisions that could prolong the war. One is in making the civilian nuclear deal the Trump administration has signed with Saudi Arabia

  2. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Howard LaFranchi

    The ‘Clash’ that never was: How Sept. 11 attacks still shape global relations (opens the original)

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    The nation was shell-shocked from the Sept. 11 attacks by Islamist terrorists – attacks that produced the worst loss of life the United States had suffered on its soil in a single day since the Civil War battle of Antietam. To many Americans, the “clash of civilizations” historian Samuel Huntington had predicted nearly a decade earlier – that in the post-Cold War era, wars would be fought not between nations but between religions and cultures – suddenly threatened to come true. Yet eve

  3. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Howard LaFranchi

    Why the US seeks to dismantle the International Criminal Court (opens the original)

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    Sept. 02, 2026, 2:09 p.m. ET | United Nations The International Criminal Court has faced a host of challenging, high-profile cases in its first quarter of a century. But its current struggle might be the greatest yet. As it has shifted its focus in recent years from African dictators and bad guys to some of the world’s most powerful leaders, its very survival is now in question. The United States has made no secret of its opposition to the court, which sits in The Hague. Secretary of State Marco

  4. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Howard LaFranchi

    As the UN picks its 10th chief, a woman may finally break the glass ceiling (opens the original)

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    Aug. 18, 2026, 3:27 p.m. ET | United Nations In the public lobby of the U.N. headquarters building, visitors can peruse the portraits of recent secretaries-general of the world’s premier international governmental organization. All are men. A few feet away hangs a display featuring “women who have shaped the United Nations” – Eleanor Roosevelt, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Amina Mohammed, and nearly two dozen more. Yet as impressive as the exhibit is, it still feels like a consolation prize for the fa

  5. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Howard LaFranchi

    In Ukraine, a city waits to rebuild a symbol of resistance (opens the original)

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    Aug. 11, 2026, 2:40 p.m. ET | Irpin, Ukraine Within a year of being pummeled by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Irpin’s prestigious State Tax University had been mostly repaired. But not its main building. The symbol of an institution that for decades has prepared many of Ukraine’s top public finance officials and ministers sat bomb-blasted and unusable. University and city leaders had decided that the building’s reconstruction was a special case requiring special treat

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