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Baghdad’s Green Zone area, the heavily fortified strip on the west bank of the Tigris River, reopened to the public Tuesday after 16 years — a move meant to portray increased confidence in the country’s overall security situation after years of

Today at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in The Netherlands, the U.S. Government made substantial commitments to drive women’s economic empowerment in developing markets.  The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced $500,000 in funding and $100,000 in technical assistance to the

As a leading innovation nation, the Netherlands wants to play a bigger role in developing solutions for a better world and building companies that can make a positive impact on a global scale. To ensure this, the Dutch government today launched

Thousands of people protested in central London on Tuesday against U.S. President Donald Trump’s pomp-laden state visit to Britain, but numbers were far down from the tens of thousands who gathered to oppose his visit last year. Protesters waved witty and

The Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) is the preeminent annual gathering that convenes entrepreneurs, investors, and their supporters globally. An estimated 20,000 emerging leaders have participated in Global Entrepreneurship Summits since 2010. At previous GES summits, governments and the private sector have

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives in Britain on Monday on a state visit laden with diplomatic peril, having already humiliated outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May over Brexit and challenged her to be tougher in dealing with China’s Huawei. Trump and his

China’s President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump are likely to find it “difficult” to make major progress towards ending their countries’ trade war when they meet at a G20 summit in Japan in June, a former top Chinese official

Senior White House adviser and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is leading a U.S. delegation on stops in Morocco, Jordan and Israel this week seeking support for as-yet unveiled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and a late June workshop aimed at helping