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​U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink as he prepares to depart the train station in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 11, 2024.
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Will the US let Ukraine use long-range missiles against Russia?

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy suggested during a visit to Kyiv on Wednesday that their governments might reconsider prohibitions on letting Ukraine use Western weapons to hit targets inside Russia.

​Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip May 7, 2024.
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Biden threatens to cut off some weapons to Israel if Rafah invaded

“We’re not going to supply the weapons and the artillery shells used” in a seemingly imminent Israeli invasion of Rafah, US President Joe Biden said in a CNN interview Wednesday, his toughest language on Israel yet.

Why the US-China relationship is more stable than you might think
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Why the US-China relationship is more stable than you might think

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: US Secretary of State Tony Blinken just came from China, Beijing, and Shanghai, and the US-China relationship continues to be better managed and more stable than we've seen in a long time. Not clear that would necessarily be the case, given the number of issues and places where we have friction between these two countries.

Finland's PM Sanna Marin at news conference in Stockholm, Sweden, February 2, 2023.
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Finland’s next step

This is a big moment for Finland.

Thousands gathered at the Place de la Concorde to denounce the government’s use of a constitutional loophole to pass the pension reform, raising the retirement age without a vote in the National Assembly.
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What We’re Watching: France’s fiery response, Poland’s first big step, Israeli president’s “civil war” warning

Macron bypasses the legislature on pension reform; Bibi rejects judicial compromise. What now?; Polish fighter jets for Ukraine