In remarks earlier this month that laid out her approach to negotiations with Beijing, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said she intended to have “frank conversations” with her Chinese counterpart, but that “our objective is not to inflame trade tensions with China.” Tai went on to outline how the U.S. …

When the news circulated that Morocco’s leading political group, the Development and Justice Party (PJD), has been trounced in the latest elections, held in September, official media mouthpieces in Egypt celebrated the news as if the PJD’s defeat was, in itself, a blow to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement. Regionally, …

Soldiers open fire in Khartoum toward demonstrators protesting power grab; EU following development with ‘utmost concern’; office of detained PM says events are a ‘complete coup’ Sudan’s top general on Monday dissolved the government and announced that the military will run the country after his forces arrested the acting prime …