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THE HILL
Fighting Global Hunger Helps Us Here at Home

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Chris Policinski is the President and CEO of Land O'Lakes Inc.
and a member of the board of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.
General Charles Wald (Ret.) oversaw Africa operations as Deputy
Commander for U.S. European Command (2002-2006) and is a member of the
National Security Advisory Council of the U.S. Global Leadership
Coalition

Nearly 800 million people across the globe go to bed hungry every
night, but America has the tools and the know-how to change this. Our
nation's global food security programs in partnership with
American businesses and NGOs empower small farmers by giving them
access to seeds, agricultural training, and supplies to maintain their
land. The Global Food Security Act - a bipartisan bill, years in
the making - will help lift millions in the developing world out
of poverty and reduce malnutrition by promoting market-based
agricultural reforms.

Campaign 2016

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Donald Trump Back-Pedals on Banning Muslims From U.S. |

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Beth Reinhard and Damian Paletta

Since Mr. Trump essentially clinched the GOP presidential nomination
in May, amid widespread popularity of his proposed ban among primary
voters, he has gradually moved away from a blanket religious ban and
toward a more nuanced policy targeting countries with a record of
terrorism. Counter-terrorism and national-security experts who
disagreed with a Muslim ban said a geographic immigration policy still
raised concerns, because Mr. Trump so far had not detailed which
countries would qualify and how he would measure their records on
terrorism. Among the questions: Would it apply to Northern Ireland,
which has weathered terror attacks that weren't carried out by
Islamic extremists, and Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of most of the
9/11 hijackers that is also a top American ally?

THE WASHINGTON POST
How Donald Trump Is Shooting Himself in the Foot on Foreign Policy

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Daniel W. Drezner, a professor of international politics at the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular
contributor

The odd thing about Donald Trump's campaign is that, to the
extent he ever talks about issues, they're almost always
international issues. Inasmuch as Trump has a philosophy, it's
that whatever ails the United States has its origins outside the
United States. I teach international relations, and even I think
he's vastly exaggerating the influence world politics and the
global economy have on the United States. And it's also on
foreign policy where Trump is most at odds with his own party.

Who's in the News

CNN
Michelle Obama: For Girls, a Heartbreaking Loss -- and an Opportunity

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Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States

Often the root of the problem is really about attitudes and beliefs:
families and communities simply don't think girls are worthy of an
education, and they choose to marry them off as teenagers instead,
often forcing them to start having children when they're basically
still children themselves. We also know that educating girls doesn't
just transform their life prospects -- it transforms the prospects of
their families, communities, and nations as well. Studies show that
girls who are educated earn higher salaries -- 10 to 20 percent more
for each additional year of secondary school -- and sending more girls
to school and into the workforce can boost an entire country's GDP.
Educated girls also marry later, have lower rates of infant and
maternal mortality, and are more likely to immunize their children and
less likely to contract malaria and HIV. That's why, last year,
President Obama and I launched Let Girls Learn, an initiative to help
adolescent girls worldwide attend school. And this week, we were proud
to announce major new efforts by the U.S. government to promote girls'
education in Africa.

Development & Diplomacy

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Unicef Says Its Development Goals for Children Are at Risk |

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Rick Gladstone

The United Nations said Monday that its global development goals for
2030 were at risk of failure, estimating that if current trends
continue, nearly 70 million children will die from mostly preventable
causes and that 750 million girls will be married while still
children. The report recommended an enormous increase in how much
money governments invest in education. It estimated that attaining the
2030 goal in universal education would cost $340 billion each year.
The report was issued against a backdrop of rising nativism and
xenophobia among countries of the West to an influx of migrants and
refugees fleeing conflict and poverty mostly in the Middle East and
Africa. Mr. Forsyth said that the trend was a new challenge to Unicef
and other aid organizations.

CNN
Amb. Stevens' Sister: Don't Blame Clinton for Benghazi |

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David Wright

The sister of the U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in Benghazi said she
doesn't blame Hillary Clinton for Chris Stevens' death, instead
pointing to Congress for under-budgeting the State Department. "I do
not blame Hillary Clinton or Leon Panetta (for Stevens' death). They
were balancing security efforts at embassies and missions around the
world," Dr. Anne Stevens, who has acted as a spokesperson for the
family, said in an interview with the New Yorker published
Tuesday."But what was the underlying cause? Perhaps if Congress had
provided a budget to increase security for all missions around the
world, then some of the requests for more security in Libya would have
been granted. Certainly the State Department is underbudgeted," she
added. "I would love to hear they are drastically increasing the
budget."

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Venezuela Needs International Assistance to Recover

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Ricardo Hausmann, professor of economic development and director of
the Center for International Development at Harvard's Kennedy School

Venezuela's problems are self-inflicted and the country will
only recover if it mends its ways. However, there is much that the
rest of the world could do to help Venezuela out of its current
crisis. The recovery will be much quicker and less painful with three
forms of international assistance: emergency supplies of food and
medicine, an "exceptional access program," like the one in
Greece or Ukraine, led by the International Monetary Fund with support
from other multilateral organizations like the World Bank and the
Inter-American Development Bank, and reestablished intelligence
cooperation with the United States and other security agencies.

Politics & Foreign Policy

FOREIGN POLICY
Brexit Is Bad News for Africa. Period. |

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Alex de Waal

The British diplomatic corps is in a state of shock. Overnight, Great
Britain has been reduced to Little England and the country's
global stature has shrunk by a fraction far greater than the economic
losses registered on the London Stock Exchange - or even the
plummeting value of the pound sterling. Perhaps more than anyone else,
Britain's ambassadors, military and commercial attachés, and
heads of aid missions in Africa are painfully aware that the Union
Jack so gleefully waved by the champions of the "Leave"
campaign will soon become a historical relic. Britain's share of
payments to the European Development Fund (EDF), the European
Union's main vehicle for providing development aid to Africa, is
a little more than 14 percent - third after France and Germany.
If those funds were reallocated to the British Department for
International Development's bilateral aid budget, they might
have better value per pound sterling in terms of poverty reduction.
But that obscures the fact that Britain has gained far greater
leverage over European external policy toward Africa than the
one-seventh proportion suggests. The rule of thumb for EU policy
toward Africa is a three-way divide: one-third Britain, one-third
France, and one-third everyone else. For the next two years - or
as long as Brexit takes - British taxpayers will continue to pay
their country's dues to the EDF, but few Europeans will listen
to what British diplomats and aid officials have to say about how the
money is spent.

THE HILL
3 Rays of Sunshine on Pentagon Foreign Aid |

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Diana Ohlbaum

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) contains at least three
solid victories for transparency and accountability of Pentagon-run
foreign aid programs, all of which garnered broad bipartisan
support.These victories include: evaluation of security cooperation
programs, streamlining and reform of security assistance authorities,
and an annual, country-by-country budget justification of all security
cooperation programs.

POLITICO
Germany: America's Real Special Relationship |

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Benjamin Oreskes

When it became clear that Britain had voted to leave the European
Union, President Barack Obama called David Cameron to offer his
sympathy. Then he dialed Angela Merkel, the leader he actually leans
on in times of crisis. It's no secret why. For years now,
Germany, not the U.K., has been Obama's main line into European
politics. And that's why Washington's influence in Europe
will survive a Brexit - and magnify Berlin's role as the go-to
U.S. ally across the Atlantic. "The Brits have long had a
minimalist agenda inside the European Union, and it's not like
they were looked to or seen as driving the agenda in Brussels,"
argued the Atlantic Council's Wilson.


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