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STAR TRIBUNE
Making the Business Case for Foreign Assistance |

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Christopher Snowbeck

The Kocembas and eight other Minnesota members of the U.S. Global
Leadership Coalition, a small but influential foreign aid-and-trade
organization, met with U.S. Reps. Tom Emmer and Keith Ellison and
visited with staff of Minnesota's senators and a few other House
members. "My dad and I wanted to go there to express our
business reasons to support foreign investment," Andy Kocemba
said. "Trade and humanitarian investment are important,
including to our businesses and national economy. We must invest to
make the world better."

THE STATE

SC Republicans Hear Little of Trump at RNC Foreign Policy Breakfast |

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Jamie Self

Speakers at a breakfast for South Carolina's delegation to the
Republican National Convention were slim on references to Donald
Trump. The delegation heard Monday morning from U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton,
R-Ark., for the second time in three months. A potential 2020
presidential hopeful, Cotton headlined the state party's Silver
Elephant Dinner in May. Monday's breakfast was sponsored by the
U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, an advocacy group for a strong
foreign policy that rejects isolationism.

Campaign 2016

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Donald Trump Sets Conditions for Defending NATO Allies Against Attack
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David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman

Donald J. Trump, on the eve of accepting the Republican nomination for
president, said Wednesday that if he were elected, he would not
pressure Turkey or other authoritarian allies about conducting purges
of their political adversaries or cracking down on civil liberties.
The United States, he said, has to "fix our own mess"
before trying to alter the behavior of other nations. During a
45-minute conversation, he explicitly raised new questions about his
commitment to automatically defend NATO allies if they are attacked,
saying he would first look at their contributions to the alliance. Mr.
Trump re-emphasized the hard-line nationalist approach that has marked
his improbable candidacy, describing how he would force allies to
shoulder defense costs that the United States has borne for decades,
cancel longstanding treaties he views as unfavorable, and redefine
what it means to be a partner of the United States.

FOREIGN POLICY
GOP Foreign-Policy Divisions on Full Display in Cleveland |

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Molly O'Toole

In separate speeches hosted by the International Republican Institute,
a nonpartisan nonprofit, Kasich and Ryan highlighted lingering
differences with the Republican nominee. Kasich has refused to endorse
Trump or attend the convention in his home state that he played a
sizable role in helping bring to Cleveland. On Tuesday, just blocks
from the convention hall, he went further, trumpeting his opposition
to Trump's views on trade, immigration, foreign policy, and
national security. Kasich clearly blamed Trump for what he described
as an increasing attitude of "let's just take care of us,
let's just pull the shades down, let's lock the doors and
let's not take care of the rest of the world, let's just
take care of ourselves." Kasich, Trump, and their aides have
sparred in recent days in dueling media interviews, and the mutual
dislike has literally manifested itself in the convention hall. In a
rare move, organizers relegated the delegation from Ohio - a key
battleground state generally guaranteed a spot front-and-center at the
national conventions for both parties - to the sidelines stage
left, sandwiched between Pennsylvania and the Northern Mariana
Islands.

Who's in the News

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Prince Harry Says World Must Revive Urgency in AIDS Fight

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Prince Harry is warning against complacency in the fight against AIDS,
saying inaction has set in as the epidemic has drifted from the
headlines and people live longer with the disease. The British prince
spoke Thursday with rock star Elton John during a global AIDS
conference in South Africa. The prince, who publicly took an HIV test
earlier this month, said the world cannot lose the sense of urgency in
fighting the disease.

Development & Diplomacy

THE ATLANTIC
A Threat Bigger Than Zika |

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Adrienne LaFrance

"Knowing this is a disease transmitted by mosquitoes and by
humans means we should be investigating it as if we're part of
the world, and not shielded from it," said Paul Farmer, the
physician and humanitarian. An isolationist attitude toward public
health may seem to some members of Congress like a way to save money,
but it's an approach that doesn't actually reflect how
diseases spread. A failure to act globally, Farmer says, puts everyone
at risk. "Looking more broadly, Zika may be representative of
the kind of disease that increasingly characterizes the modern
era-an illness that thrives, in large part, because of how human
activity has affected the planet," Peter Hotez, the dean of the
National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor and an expert in
neglected tropical diseases, wrote in an essay for PLOS NTD earlier
this year. "Forces like climate change, urbanization,
deforestation, and political destabilization all nurture the outbreak
of diseases like Ebola, Zika, and other mosquito-borne
sicknesses." If Zika hasn't prompted Congress to act,
it's unclear what-if anything-actually will.

THE WASHINGTON POST

Obama Will Ensure His Global Development Policy Outlasts His
Presidency |

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Juliet Eilperin

President Obama will sign legislation Wednesday that will ensure one
of his hallmark development policies - leveraging private-sector
support to advance agricultural operations in Africa - lasts
beyond his time in office. The enactment of the bipartisan Global Food
Security Act will take place on the same day as the White House Summit
on Global Development, a gathering that will look back at the
administration's efforts to address poverty, health, hunger and
malnutrition in impoverished nations worldwide. "The signature
development initiatives of this administration have reduced poverty,
malnutrition, infant and maternal mortality," she said,
"while also spurring entrepreneurship and economic growth,
increasing the number of young women in school, and helping to build
more stable, accountable, and inclusive societies."

HUFFINGTON POST
Renewing Our Commitment To Global Development

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Susan Rice, United States National Security Advisor

As National Security Advisor, I think people living in grinding
poverty - or refugees and migrants seeking a better life -
challenge the consciences of us all. But these are not solely
humanitarian concerns. When children cannot go to school, or
businesses lack reliable roads or electricity, that holds back entire
economies. Where poverty and despair take root, conflict, instability,
and violent extremism can flourish. Fragile and failing states can
incubate or exacerbate a wide range of threats that spill across
borders - from pandemics to nuclear proliferation, human
trafficking to climate change. In short, inclusive global development
is not only one of the great moral challenges of our time but also one
of the great economic and strategic imperatives of our time.

REUTERS
NASA's New Mission: Improving Food Security in West Africa |
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Nellie Peyton

NASA last week launched a hub in Niger's capital Niamey that will use
space-based observations to improve food security and better manage
natural disasters, said Dan Irwin, manager of the SERVIR project,
named after the Spanish word meaning "to serve". The project, which
will cover Burkina Faso, Ghana, Senegal and Niger, is one of four
regional hubs worldwide, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID). "The model is demand driven," said Irwin, who
describes SERVIR's vision as "connecting space to village". NASA
performed a study in the region two years ago and found that
governments either did not have good data, or were not using it, he
added.

Politics & Foreign Policy

VOX

When No One Was Watching, Congress Passed a Pretty Important Bill to
Improve Foreign Aid |

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Dylan Matthews

On July 5, the US Congress did something remarkable: It passed a law.
In a time of historic gridlock, the fact that the House and Senate
were able to agree on much of anything, much less a bill that
President Obama is expected to sign, is fairly remarkable. It's
even more impressive when the bill in question is a substantial piece
of legislation on a fairly divisive, important topic. The Foreign Aid
Transparency and Accountability Act of 2016, however, was able to beat
the odds. It first passed the House by voice vote in December, and
then an altered version passed the Senate unanimously in June. On the
5th, the House agreed to the Senate's changes, sending the law to
Obama.

ABC NEWS
Fighting ISIS: International Allies Meet in Washington D.C. |

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Justin Fishel

As many in Washington focus on the the political spectacle in
Cleveland, a number of high-ranking international diplomats and
defense officials have quietly assembled around the capitol to discuss
the future of Iraq and how to defeat ISIS. At the U.S. State
Department this morning, Secretary John Kerry, along with
representatives from Germany, Japan, Kuwait, the Netherlands and
Canada, announced that together they had pledged $2 billion dollars in
humanitarian support for Iraq. $310 million of that will come from the
United States. Defense Secretary Ash Carter held a defense ministerial
meeting with members of the anti-ISIS coalition at Joint Base Andrews
in Maryland. There, Carter secured an agreement from France that it
would step up its role in the fight by deploying its sole aircraft
carrier, the Charles de Gualle, in support of the mission. Noticeably
absent from the discussions was any senior leadership from Turkey. The
Turkish Defense and Foreign Ministers stayed home as their government
responds to last week's failed attempt at a military coup.

POLITICO
Obama Unloads on Trump, Promises to Protect Mexico Relationship |

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Nick Gass

President Barack Obama wasted no time Friday delivering another
implicit rebuke of Donald Trump on Mexico and immigration, hours after
the Republican nominee officially claimed the party mantle to take on
presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in November. "Let me
start by saying something that is too often overlooked, but bears
repeating - especially given some of the heated rhetoric that we
sometimes hear. The United States values tremendously our enduring
partnership with Mexico and our extraordinary ties of family and
friendship with the Mexican people," Obama said at the start of a
joint press conference with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.


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