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From that standpoint, in spite of a rapprochement between France and the United States, culminating in a joint UN resolution, the latest Middle East war is in reality widening and deepening the emotional gap that has existed between Europe and the US since the war in Iraq began.
Indeed, in the context of the latest Middle East war, there is “more” France and “less” Europe, at least on the visible diplomatic front.
Historically, the US has added disproportionately to the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and among large countries it remains the biggest per capita emitter of carbon dioxide by far – more than twice China’s rate and nearly 2.5 times more than Europe in 2013 (the latest year for which the World Bank has reported complete data).
The latest source of contention - both on the domestic front and in relations with the mainland - concerns whether to write a new constitution.
Indeed, barely two weeks before the latest incident, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met with his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, during the United Nations General Assembly session in New York.
The latest attempted infiltration – which Indian military leaders say could not have occurred without the Pakistani army’s complicity – has added to the outcry against the government for its alleged naiveté.
China has already built six mega-dams on the Mekong – the lifeblood for continental Southeast Asia – with its latest addition being the 254-meter-high Nuozhadu Dam, whose gargantuan reservoir is designed to hold nearly 22 billion cubic meters of water.
Yet Chinese officials’ deportment in London on their latest visit demonstrated a particular kind of arrogance, offering insight into the way China’s leaders regard their country’s position in the world today.
One thing we know for sure is that the oil market has undergone structural changes, thus making this latest episode different from previous dramatic price fluctuations.
The latest fad is for officials to sue newspapers for libel, demanding over $1 million.
Many "outsiders" supported right-wing populist parties in the latest elections; their votes are critical for the survival of the new center-right governments in many European countries.
Looking to the future, Europe should take note of the potential consequences revealed by the latest Program for International Student Assessment, a worldwide comparison of student performance.
In mathematics and science, PISA’s latest report card puts Asia at the head of the class, with China, Singapore, and South Korea on top.
In this sense, it is promising that China’s leaders admitted at the latest Congress that China is and will remain in the primary phase of socialism.
The recent data leave little doubt that Asia is now starting to feel the impact of the latest global shock.
It is this vital point that the IPCC’s latest updates address in calling for disaster managers to reassess their action plans.
Likewise, Europe’s latest existential identity crisis is again creating a great deal of policy uncertainty and unpredictability.
China’s recent heavy-handed economic sanctioning of South Korea, in response to that country’s decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system, was just the latest example of the Chinese authorities’ use of trade as a political weapon.
For Kenya’s largest daily, the exodus of top talent was the latest blow to an already tarnished reputation.
Likewise, America’s proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership and offers of economic engagement to Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries are the latest initiatives underscoring its determination to strengthen its economic ties in the region.
Yet everyone knew that once the Bundestag voted for the latest Greek rescue and enough time passed to acknowledge reality gracefully, Merkel would reverse course and argue that the eurozone needed a bigger firewall after all.
Today, the number of “desplazados” from Colombia’s guerrilla wars (1.5 million refugees at the latest count) is greater than the population of all but three of our largest cities and forms the third largest group of refugees in the world.
The latest economic data have forced eurozone policymakers to face the severe deflationary risks that have been apparent for at least two years.
AIDS, hunger, armed conflict, and global warming compete for attention alongside government failure, malaria, and the latest natural disaster.
In the latest (2012) scores on international achievement tests, US teenagers scored below the OECD average, dropping to 31st place in math; 24th place in science and 11th place in reading.
This latest round looked at 51 banks and, contrary to previous tests, was not designed to identify capital shortfalls, but rather to provide “a common analytical framework to consistently compare and assess the resilience of large EU banks to adverse economic developments.”
The so-called Islamic State is only the latest example of this.
And if Greece is to remain in the eurozone (still a big if, even after the latest agreement), it must not only earn its peers’ respect; it must be treated with greater respect by them as well.
The latest round has focused on the alleged activities of the Pakistani military’s powerful intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), in the United States.
The somewhat smaller strike undertaken a year ago failed to change Syrian behavior, and the latest attack is no more likely to do so.
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