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Who's in the News

USA TODAY
Religious Persecution in Iran, China Must End Now

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Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State

Last month, Mohammad Salas, a member of the Iranian Gonabadi Sufi
dervish community persecuted by the Iranian regime for its beliefs,
was convicted and sentenced to death on questionable grounds following
violent clashes between security forces and Gonabadi dervishes...
Around the world, adherents from innumerable faith backgrounds suffer
similar violations of their most fundamental human rights. Earlier
this year, the State Department hosted six United States-based Uighur
journalists with Radio Free Asia's Uighur Service. Their
reporting indicates that Chinese authorities are likely detaining, at
least, hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in
internment camps in Xinjiang... The Trump administration is passionate
about promoting and defending international religious freedom. But the
challenge is too big for any one nation. We need every country to
protect and defend freedom of religion for everyone.

CNN
For Gaza Peace, Tell the Truth About Hamas

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Nikki Haley, US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Jared
Kushner, Senior Adviser to President Trump, Jason Greenblatt, Special
U.S. Representative for International Negotiations, and US Ambassador
to Israel David Friedman

On the surface, everything about the General Assembly session on June
13 appeared to be business as usual. Algeria offered a grossly
one-sided resolution blaming Israel for the recent violence in Gaza.
In response, the United States proposed a simple amendment to the
resolution that called out Hamas for its role in the skirmishes. For
the first time in the United Nations, more nations than not
acknowledged that peace between Israel and the Palestinian people must
be built on a foundation of truth regarding Hamas. They recognized
that reconciliation is impossible if reality is denied for the sake of
scoring political points. And part of that reality is recognizing the
primary responsibility Hamas bears in perpetuating the suffering of
the people of Gaza.

Development & Diplomacy

THE WASHINGTON POST
Help Is on the Way, at Last, for Religious Minorities in Iraq |

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Carol Morello

The United States will soon begin its first directly funded rebuilding
projects for Iraqi Christian and Yazidi communities devastated by
Islamic State militants, a U.S. official said Thursday. Plans are
being finalized for 10 modest reconstruction projects for Christian
communities in the Nineveh Plains and for Yazidi villages around
Sinjar in northern Iraq, said Mark Green, administrator of the United
States Agency for International Development. The long-delayed projects
will focus on small infrastructure jobs to help restore water and
electrical service in towns populated by religious minorities that
were targeted by the Islamic State, which has lost most of the
territory it once held in Iraq and Syria.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Ebola Outbreak in Congo Has Ended, W.H.O. Says |

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Donald G. McNeil Jr.

The Ebola outbreak that began in the Democratic Republic of Congo in
April was declared officially over on Tuesday in what appeared to be
twin triumphs for a new vaccine and rapid response. Just 33 people
died, even though the outbreak reached Mbandaka, a river port city of
over one million people. Three years ago, an Ebola outbreak in West
Africa cost more than 11,000 lives. Health agencies were slow to
respond, and no vaccine was available until it was nearly over. The
last known case in Congo occurred in early June...Declaring it
officially over, however, required waiting 42 days - the length
of two viral incubation periods.

FOREIGN POLICY
Welcome to the Next Deadly AIDS Pandemic |

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Laurie Garrett

The world's experts on HIV/AIDS are gathered this week in
Amsterdam for the 22nd International AIDS Conference as a collective
anxiousness has set in. For years, humanity had the virus on the run,
and death tolls plunged to joyously low levels. But the disease is now
poised, for the first time in recent memory, to add massively to its
global death toll of 35 million since 1981. Three factors are
contributing to its runaway resurgence: flawed public health strategy,
rapidly shifting demography, and diminished resources. as a collective
anxiousness has set in.

THE WASHINGTON POST

After Trump Cuts Aid, U.N. Relief Agency Lays Off Staff in Gaza and
West Bank |

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Loveday Morris

The United Nations said Wednesday it had been forced to lay off more
than 250 Palestinian employees in Gaza and the West Bank and cut
services after the United States slashed hundreds of millions of
dollars in funding. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which provides
assistance for Palestinian refugees, said it had cut 154 employees in
the Israeli-occupied West Bank and 113 in Gaza. About 580 other staff
members in Gaza will be moved to part-time contracts, and the budget
for its community mental health services will be reduced.

THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Good Intentions Without Accountability Won't Help Iraq

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Peter Burns, Government Relations and Policy Director, In Defense of
Christians

After spending a week in Iraq's Nineveh Plains meeting with
local priests, victims of the Islamic State's genocidal
campaign, various Christian political parties, and refugee camp
administrators, one thing has become clear to me: The complexity of
the situation prevents the United States from being able to chopper
in, deliver an enlarged cardboard aid check, take a photo-op, and walk
away... After years of advocacy, a consensus has developed that the
U.S. can and should provide aid to religious minorities in Northern
Iraq. Vice President Mike Pence has made preserving these Christian
and Yazidi communities a personal mission at a time when they
desperately need a powerful friend. These peoples also have
sympathetic allies in USAID Administrator Mark Green and
Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback,
both of whom have publicly expressed their commitment to the issue.

Politics & Foreign Policy

POLITICO
Pompeo, Mattis on Cleanup Duty After Trump Diplomatic Blowups |

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Bryan Bender

President Donald Trump's top national security and foreign
policy leaders declared their allegiance Tuesday to the global order
that U.S. diplomacy fashioned and reinforced over the decades -
just a week after Trump upended that order in Helsinki. Neither Mattis
nor Pompeo made any overt remarks about Trump or the controversy over
last week's Helsinki summit. But they repeatedly asserted that
the U.S. stands with its allies - and is being tough on Russian
aggression...The effort to settle the nerves of allies after the
president creates a diplomatic mess is becoming a familiar pattern for
top Trump administration officials.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Pompeo Defends Trump With 'Proof' of
Administration's Actions vs. Russia |

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Julie Hirschfeld Davis

The criticism came from both parties. Senator Bob Corker, Republican
of Tennessee and the chairman of the committee, opened the session by
saying that Mr. Trump had been "submissive and
deferential" to Mr. Putin in Helsinki, and derided the
administration's foreign policy as an incoherent "ready,
fire, aim" approach. At another point, Senator Jeanne Shaheen,
Democrat of New Hampshire, asked whether Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin had
discussed scaling back American military presence in Syria. Mr. Pompeo
repeated that "there's been no change to U.S.
policy."

THE WASHINGTON POST
Trump Can't Win at Foreign Policy the Way He Wins at Golf |

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David Ignatius

Trump is fickle, and he may now be chafing at his defense
secretary's careful counsel. A Republican source tells me Trump
recently complained: "He's not 'Mad Dog
Mattis,' he's 'Moderate Mattis.'?"
Another Republican says that at the Group of Seven summit in Canada
last month, Trump asked European leaders, "What do you think of
Mattis?" Europeans feared it was a trick question, because too
much enthusiasm might undermine Mattis. Trump has given Mattis the
freedom to run the Pentagon. Mattis, in return, has been almost
agonizingly discreet, saving his counsel for the president's
ears. Some Mattis supporters wish he would lean forward a bit more
- but not if that exposes him to the president's ire and
undercuts his essential role.

POLITICO

Cabinet Chiefs Feel Shut Out of Bolton's 'Efficient'
Policy Process |

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Nahal Toosi, Bryan Bender, and Eliana Johnson

National security adviser John Bolton's effort to simplify the
administration's decision-making process is frustrating
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary James Mattis and
causing confusion about the United States' position on major
issues including Russia, according to officials familiar with the
situation. Mattis has gone so far as to draft a letter to Bolton
requesting that he hold more gatherings of agency and department
chiefs "to smooth the bubble" on thorny issues ranging
from U.S. policy in Syria to North Korea, according to one senior
administration official. In particular, senior officials are concerned
about the dearth of "principals committee" meetings
scheduled by Bolton, officials say.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
United Nations Leader Warns of a Cash Shortage |

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Rick Gladstone

The secretary general of the United Nations said Thursday that its
cash supply had been severely depleted because of what he described as
delayed contributions by many member states, and he warned the
organization's employees that they must find ways to cut
expenses. "Our cash flow has never been this low so early in the
calendar year, and the broader trend is also concerning,"
Secretary General António Guterres said in an internal memorandum to
employees shared with The New York Times. According to a tally known
as the "honor roll" on the United Nations website, 112 of
the organization's 193 members have paid their annual
assessments in full.

THE WASHINGTON POST

Russia Fever Is Distracting the United States From the China Threat |

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Josh Rogin

The nation's top intelligence officials publicly declared last
week that China is seeking to supplant the United States as the
dominant world power and represents the number one economic and
national security threat. But few took note: U.S. debate is focused so
heavily on Russia at the moment that discussion over how to deal with
China's rise has been muted. That's a problem, as
there's no more time to waste. "China, from a
counterintelligence perspective, in many ways represents the broadest,
most challenging, most significant threat we face as a country,"
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray said. "China is trying to position
itself as the sole dominant superpower...They are trying to replace
the United States in that role. Theirs is a long-term game."


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