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Finishing Strong: Seeking a Proper US Exit from Afghanistan

By DANIEL F. RUNDE and EARL ANTHONY WAYNE     (The following is an abbreviated version of a brief written for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. It is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) THE ISSUE A precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan would endanger many of the social, political, economic and health gains that

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Who Are the ‘Willing’ in Central Europe?

By JACQUES GOODLOE     Special to Pulse News Mexico     The idea of an “axis of the willing against illegal migration” composed of Italy, Germany and Austria has been proposed by Sebastian Kurz, Austria’s right populist leader. He spoke about this with German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, a Bavarian conservative who shares the Austrian chancellor’s views on tighter border controls. Kurz said fighting illegal

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