Reports this week highlight epic transitions in world alliances: Russia and China challenge US presence in international airspace; the US ends embargo on sales of lethal arms to Vietnam while Asia remains skeptical; India completes strategic agreement with Iran; Turkey hosts a United Nations World Humanitarian Summit as reports of impending famine are forecasted.
We report on Hillary Clinton’s E-Mail scandal; Donald Trump’s perceived future; and Turkey’s Erdogan resisting EU demands; focus on the possibility of a Brexit; and highlight the emerging right-wing political forces in Germany as Norbert Hofer looks to the future following his narrow defeat in Austria; tell of Pope Francis’s meeting with the grand imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar mosque; and point out the new membership in the Knesset of Temple Mount Activist Yehuda Glick.