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DESERET NEWS

The Last Statesman: Can Jon Huntsman Jr. Keep the Art of Diplomacy
Alive in the Time of President Trump? |

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Jesse Hyde

Since his confirmation hearing, Huntsman and Trump had seemed to be on
the opposite page when it came to Russia. Huntsman had been
unequivocal in his belief that Russians meddled in the 2016 election
and vigorously supported sanctions in response. He supported the
Mueller investigation. All of which had created some confusion about
where Huntsman's loyalties lie and why he was in Russia, serving
a president he had once said was unfit for office... When I asked
Huntsman if he served the president or the country, he said he made no
distinction between the two. "The president is an extension of
the country, and represents the will of the people."

ABC NEWS

Trump Offers Heather Nauert Role of US Ambassador to the United
Nations |

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Jonathan Karl and Conor Finnegan

President Donald Trump has told State Department spokesperson Heather
Nauert that he wants to nominate her to be U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations, a senior White House official told ABC News. It is
unclear whether she has accepted his offer concerning the position,
now held by Nikki Haley, who said she would leave by the end of the
year. But when asked about Nauert later Thursday, President Trump said
while she is "under very serious consideration," he had not yet made a
final decision and wouldn't until next week.

DEVEX

White House Foreign Aid Review Is Long Overdue. Here's How to Get
Reform Right.

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Amb. Mark Dybul, former Executive Director, President's
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief; Rob Mosbacher, former President and
CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corporation; and John Danilovich,
former CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation

The Donald Trump Administration is nearing the final stages of a White
House-led foreign assistance review. This is an undertaking that is
overdue and one that we have consistently advocated for over the past
decade. The administration's goal, as we understand it, is to
align our foreign assistance more clearly with our national interests.
We strongly support such alignment and believe that effectively
reformed foreign assistance is a powerful tool that can simultaneously
advance our national interests and those of the people we seek to
help. But the particulars of the foreign aid review are critically
important, and we are concerned that a process that in the end renders
a development strategy and budget that simply divides countries into
two categories - friends and everyone else - is unlikely
to have a positive effect on our national interests and could actually
harm them.

Development & Diplomacy

BLOOMBERG
An Unmanned State Department Can't Solve Crises |

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Editorial Board

There are so many better ways the U.S. could have handled the slaying
of Jamal Khashoggi. Within hours of his disappearance, for instance,
the American ambassadors to Turkey and Saudi Arabia... could have
tapped their contacts for information and pressed both governments for
answers. But almost two years after taking office, President Donald
Trump has yet to nominate ambassadors for Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The
same is true for U.S. treaty allies Australia and Thailand; critical
partners such as Mexico, Singapore, Jordan and South Africa; and about
20 other posts. More than 40 ambassadorships - about a quarter
of the total - also sit empty with nominees awaiting
confirmation. This dangerous gap in U.S. diplomatic representation
reflects the administration's... seeming contempt for the idea
of nonpartisan career public servants.

AP NEWS
Enrollment of US Diplomats Is Up This Year |
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Susannah George

The State Department says the number of diplomats enrolling in its
training academy is on the rise, signaling a possible turnaround for
an agency demoralized by budget cuts and restructuring under former
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. During the 2018 fiscal year that
ended in September, 546 diplomats enrolled in the Foreign Service
Institute's introductory A-100 class. The previous year's
enrollment was 473. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan says the
higher enrollment numbers reflect investments in the department by
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

USA TODAY
Migrant Caravan Won't Stop If U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Central America |

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Editorial Board

With a caravan from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador making its way
north through Mexico, President Donald Trump is in an agitated state.
The caravan reflects not only the limitations of his immigration
policies but also an opportunity to whip up his base before next
week's crucial midterm elections... [Trump] has also vented his anger
toward the three countries by threatening to terminate the roughly
$500 million in annual aid they receive from the United States.
Without doubt, some things need to be done to discourage people from
coming here, but cutting off aid to struggling Central American
nations is not one of them. Let's run through a few reasons why.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

How the War in Yemen Became a Bloody Stalemate - And the Worst
Humanitarian Crisis in the World |

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Robert F. Worth

In March 2015, Saudi Arabia unleashed a full-scale military campaign
against the Houthis, who had captured most of Yemen a few months
earlier. The Saudis had assembled a coalition of nine states, and they
made clear that they considered the Houthis, who are allied with Iran,
a mortal threat on their southern border. The war has turned much of
Yemen into a wasteland and has killed at least 10,000 civilians,
mostly in errant airstrikes. The real number is probably much higher,
but verifying casualties in Yemen's remote areas is extremely
difficult. Some 14 million people are facing starvation, in what the
United Nations has said could soon become the worst famine seen in the
world in 100 years.

NPR

Why Are People So Angry at Ebola Responders in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo? |

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Nurith Aizenman

The DRC's government reports that on average burial teams, health
workers and other responders are being threatened like this as often
as three or four times a week. Partly it's because many people in the
communities where Ebola is now spreading had never heard of it -
so they're resistant to giving up their loved ones to strangers in
scary plastic suits. But there's another issue, says Ashish Pradhan, a
U.S.-based senior analyst with International Crisis Group, a research
organization that is a leading authority on conflict areas: "The local
population is very distrustful of the government. Their default mode
is not to trust the government."

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

Red Cross Calls for 'Humanitarian Belt and Road' to Boost Chinese Aid
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David Wroe

The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross has
called for a "humanitarian Belt and Road" as he urges China to match
its extraordinary economic growth with more generous aid donorship.
Former Swiss diplomat Peter Maurer said traditional donor countries
such as Australia, the United States and European nations were under
fiscal pressure but newly wealthy countries were not yet filling the
void... Referring to China's trillion-dollar Belt and Road global
infrastructure-building project, he said Beijing needed a humanitarian
equivalent.

USGLC GLOBAL IMPACT BLOG
Quality Dairy Delivers Shared Value |
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Cody Corrington

In 2016, Abbott partnered with Prabhat, an Indian dairy company, and
TechnoServe, an international nonprofit focused on business solutions
in the developing world, to create a sustainable new approach for
working together with small family farms. The dairy initiative
provides rural dairy farmers with access to the training, resources
and infrastructure needed to produce higher quality milk that meets
industry standards.

Politics & Foreign Policy

ABC NEWS
Trump Administration Begins New Push to End War in Yemen |

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Conor Finnegan

Nearly four years after the war in Yemen began, eventually killing at
least 16,200 civilians and creating a humanitarian crisis with a
deadly cholera epidemic and 14 million people facing a possible
famine, the U.S. is finally saying enough. The Trump administration
issued two strong statements Tuesday night to call for an end to the
war between Houthi rebels, supported by Iran, and the Yemeni
government, powered by U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates.

THE WASHINGTON POST

Bolton Promises to Confront Latin America's 'Troika of
Tyranny' |

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Josh Rogin

The George W. Bush administration had its "Axis of Evil."
Now the Trump administration has coined the term "Troika of
Tyranny" to describe the group of oppressive Latin American
dictators it is now pledging to confront... National security adviser
John Bolton gave a speech Thursday afternoon at the Freedom Tower in
Miami to a crowd filled with people who fled Cuba and Venezuela to
escape the cruelty and oppression of the Castro and Maduro regimes.
Linking those situations with the escalating repression of the Daniel
Ortega government in Nicaragua, Bolton promised a new, comprehensive
U.S. approach that will ramp up U.S. involvement in pushing back
against what the administration sees as a leftist, anti-democratic
resurgence in the region.

THE HILL
China Is Investing in Latin America, and the US Is Jealous

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Benjamin Creutzfeldt, Wilson Center

Beginning with the National Defense Strategy in January, a trio of
China-critics surrounding the president have built the case that China
presents a threat to U.S. interests in every sector, culminating in
Vice President Pence's outlining the new China policy at the
Hudson Institute on Oct. 4... Criticizing China has become the new
norm, even though it is really a spectacular case of the pot calling
the kettle black - all major powers believe they can make
exceptions to the rule. It is really much simpler: China's
wealth and size put it in a position to make new friends, and
Washington is uncomfortable with that. "Thou shalt not have any other
gods before Me," is the message the U.S. State Department is now
carrying out to the rest of the world, including its southern
neighbors.

FOREIGN POLICY

Inside Trump's Plan to Scale Back U.N. Resolutions on Sexual
Health, Violence Against Women |

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Robbie Gramer and Colum Lynch

The State Department is directing American diplomats around the world
to scale back U.S. support for a raft of overseas sexual and
reproductive health programs that proponents see as vital to
women's health, but conservatives believe promote abortion and
sexual activity among young people. New State Department directives,
outlined in internal memos obtained by Foreign Policy, show how the
Trump administration is instructing U.S. diplomats at the United
Nations to push back on U.N. resolutions on women's issues,
outlining so-called red lines on language related to sexual health and
sexual harassment.

REUTERS
How a Democratic U.S. House Could Alter Foreign Policy |

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Patricia Zengerle

Democrats will try to harden U.S. policy toward Saudi Arabia, Russia
and North Korea if they win a majority in the U.S. House of
Representatives, while maintaining the status quo on hot-button areas
like China and Iran, congressional sources say... But since they must
still work with a likely Republican-controlled Senate to pass any
bills, the Democratic majority's greatest influence will be
oversight, the ability to call hearings and, if necessary, subpoena
witnesses, as they chair committees like Foreign Affairs, Armed
Services and Intelligence.

THE WASHINGTON POST

U.S. to Allow Eight Countries to Temporarily Import Iran's Oil
Despite Sanctions |

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Carol Morello

The United States will allow eight countries to temporarily keep
importing Iranian oil after sanctions are reimposed next week, when it
will blacklist hundreds of companies and individuals, U.S. officials
said Friday. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the administration
decided to grant the eight waivers on oil sanctions, which will be
reimposed Monday, because those countries agreed to continue slashing
their oil purchases from Iran. Six countries agreed to "greatly
reduced" levels of oil purchases, he said, and two said they
would soon end their imports of Iranian oil.


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